Less than a fortnight before he died in a fiery plane crash in Melbourne, a US tourist wrote about how he was scared of flying.

The pilot involved in the Melbourne air crash was under investigation for a previous incident that had been deferred three times due to "workload".

The relatives of Wellington-born Melbourne woman Karen Risteveski have vowed to find her killer as police search for answers in the case that has baffled them.

The pilot of the plane which crashed into a Melbourne shopping outlet was involved in a near midair collision less than two years ago.

Five people are confirmed dead after a light plane crashed into an Australian shopping centre near Melbourne’s Essendon Airport. Joining Tristram Clayton is Melbourne-based journalist Rebekah Holt to discuss this disaster.

Witnesses to a fiery, peak hour plane crash beside one of Melbourne's busiest freeways have told of a "massive fireball" after the light aircraft plummeted.

It's been described as "coma in a bottle" and can bring on psychosis and hallucinations. It also caused 40 overdoses this weekend.

Cameron McMillan discovers some of Melbournes's best watering holes, with the help of a new drinking buddy.

Drug overdoses at Melbourne's Electric Parade music festival have landed more than 20 revellers in hospital.

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.

With one daughter dead, another in hospital and his wife clinging to life, Tony Hakin is trapped in an impossible nightmare after the Melbourne rampage.

Dimitrious "Jimmy" Gargasoulas has been charged with murder in relation to Melbourne's Bourke Street massacre.

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