Sarma (cabbage rolls) at Balkan Skara.

It’s worth the drive just for the cabbage rolls at this suburban Macedonian diner

Marijan Nikolovski and his family serve kebapi sausages,flavour-forward dips and more at Balkan Skara in Melbourne’s north.

  • Dani Valent

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The Melbourne Market in Epping.

Fruit-and-veg market stand-off heads to court as sellers face eviction

Wholesale fruit and vegetable sellers at the Epping market have been given 30 days to sign up to new lease agreements that have significantly higher rents.

  • Chip Le Grand
City of Whittlesea.

City of Whittlesea:What your candidates said

Voters in Whittlesea will choose xx people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

  • Cara Waters andRachael Dexter
Nightingale Preston,which was completed this year,stands within the proposed Preston activity centre.

The number of apartments to be added to your suburb revealed

Preston,Ringwood,Epping and Camberwell will get the most new apartment blocks as the state government seizes planning control over suburban activity centres.

  • Adam Carey andSophie Aubrey
Suburbs series

Where we live:The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods

In this series,The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.

A property developer has lost his legal bid to scrap a proposed rail corridor that cuts through his land.

New hope for rail line in Melbourne’s north 20 years in the making

A landowner has failed in a bid to subdivide property set aside for the Wollert rail extension after arguing the rail project was a lost cause following years of inaction.

  • Adam Carey
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Caravans being manufactured by hand in a factory in Campbellfield in Melbourne’s north.

Not far from the old Ford factory in Melbourne’s north,caravan-makers are booming

Almost a decade after the Australian car manufacturing industry died,caravan-makers now employ more workers than carmakers did at their peak.

  • Adam Carey
Staff at Northern Hospital talk about how to deal with patients.

A day – and an unexpected night – in the emergency ward

After spending a day as an observer in the state’s busiest emergency department,there is an unforeseen personal visit to another emergency ward.

  • Tony Wright
Police at a house in Coolaroo on Saturday.

Man charged with murder after woman’s body found at Melbourne tip

Staff at a waste-management facility in Melbourne’s north were shaken after discovering the dead woman while moving waste last Wednesday.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Forensic officers.

Murder probe launched after woman’s body found at Melbourne tip

Police believe the woman’s remains were inside a bin that was picked up outside a property in Coolaroo on Tuesday and taken to Epping.

  • Lachlan Abbott