The stricken cruise liner The Norwegian Star is expected to arrive in Port Melbourne this afternoon.

Thousands of distressed passengers are onboard a cruise ship bound for New Zealand that has broken down and is drifting off the coast of Australia.

A federal police officer has been shot inside the Melbourne CBD headquarters.

Guests at a wild party in an Airbnb rental were jumping fences and hiding in backyards to get away from a weapon-yielding gang that gatecrashed.

A man's body has been found in the carpark lift of a Westfield shopping centre in Melbourne early this morning.

Gary Baron was just a humble truckie who became a millionaire overnight, which caused him to lose friends and live a secret life of luxury.

Sister's response to Melbourne teenager accused of murdering a friend over a A$100 debt after he rang her for advice.

A long-running fight between a Victorian truck driver and his former workmates over a disputed $16.6 million group Powerball win has come to an end.

Three New Zealand men with alleged links to Melbourne's violent Apex gang are due to be deported from Australia.

In the wake of the Bourke Street rampage, prison breakouts and a youth crime wave, Victoria's police have been under scrutiny for being "risk averse".

Gangs from a youth detention centre have been accused of turning Melbourne into "Melbronx" and the city has been compared to Johannesburg in South Africa.

A letter about the world moving from "darkness" to "light" by a Melbourne CBD massacre victim has emerged after her death.

'Jimmy' Gargasoulas is accused of stabbing his brother for being gay before the Bourke St rampage. A friend says there's more to it.

Investment bank Credit Suisse is tipping Fairfax Media as a hot stock in Australia this year on the basis that it will divest its

The taxi driver who was called a hero for taking charge and helping the injured in Bourke Street attack thinks it was his military training that helped him.

Police are being slammed over their handling of the Melbourne massacre - but what could they have done? Here are the key questions.

The youngest person to die after Melbourne's Bourke St rampage has been remembered as a "beautiful, loving, happy" boy.

Friends have praised the "hunnie pie" younger sibling allegedly stabbed by the man accused of the recent Melbourne CBD massacre.

Amelia Wade stays at a newly-opened, design-driven Melbourne hotel.

Families and friends of one of the Melbourne massacre victims have remembered her as a "strong, beautiful, determined" woman.

A teenager armed with a baseball bat who tried to stop the Melbourne car rampage says he's not a hero because he couldn't save the five people who died.

Heartbroken family members last night said their final goodbyes to a three-month old baby boy after he was tragically killed in Friday's Melbourne CBD rampage.

A heavily pregnant mother caught up in the Melbourne car ramming attack had an unwanted front seat to the tragic event.

The mother of 'Jimmy' Gargasoulas has expressed the disgust she feels for his shocking rampage through Melbourne's CBD on Friday.

The mother and sister of a 10-year-old schoolgirl killed in Melbourne's CBD tragedy were last night fighting for their lives in hospital.

Friends of the youngest of four people killed when a man drove into a crowd in Melbourne have spoken out, saying "we all feel helpless and hopeless at times like this".

Twenty four people remain in Melbourne hospitals after a man drove a car into a crowd at a mall on Bourke St, killing four.

Tourists have been seen posing for photographs at the scene where a car fatally ploughed into pedestrians in Melbourne's city centre.

The man who allegedly mowed down people in Melbourne, killing four, has a violent history and was known to cops, police allege.

The man police believe is responsible for an inner-city rampage that killed four people in Melbourne yesterday, will receive multiple charges.