Adam David Tucker,who is living in a bus in Nelson Place,Williamstown and claims he is no longer a citizen of Australia.

Sovereign citizen’s bus home deemed too risky for council officers

Williamstown businesses are infuriated by three months of council inaction over a sovereign citizen who set up home in the main street.

  • Grant McArthur

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Peter Preuss at his vineyard.

‘Almost ashamed to be Australian’:Council fights the state’s kangaroo-culling program

The Yarra Ranges Council is fighting to ban kangaroo harvesting in its municipality but the state government has rejected the plea.

  • Gemma Grant
Lord Mayor Nick Reece in the City of Melbourne’s CCTV control room at Town Hall.

Councillors alarmed at addition of private cameras to City of Melbourne’s CCTV network

Nearly 20 privately owned security cameras already feed into the City of Melbourne’s CCTV network,but the council plans to add 60 more.

  • Cara Waters
City of Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly.

Yarra mayor charged with unlawful assault

Stephen Jolly is facing a single charge of assault over a November 2024 incident and is planning to plead not guilty.

  • Rachael Dexter
A long queue for voting at Drill Hall in the City of Melbourne on the day of the postal voting deadline for council elections in October 2024.

VEC demands e-voting,party membership disclosure in council elections

Council elections based purely on postal voting is unsustainable,the Victorian Electoral Commission has warned.

  • Rachael Dexter
He wasn't allowed out at night because of a curfew,but Kepler Cornelius's owner petitioned the council and had that changed.
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The cat that changed the law

He wasn't allowed out at night because of a curfew,but Kepler Cornelius's owner petitioned the council and had that changed.

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Flash flooding on Sydney Road,Brunswick,in 2017.

Flood risk hits 32,000 more homes in Melbourne’s north and south-east

Home owners in another two council areas are being warned they are in danger of flooding from overflowing drains as new maps are released.

  • Sophie Aubrey
The damage inside the Capital Reserve pavilion in Glen Waverley in April.

Man charged over alleged arson attacks at community sports clubs

The 31-year-old has been charged over two fires that caused damage worth more than $4 million to two clubs in Melbourne’s south-east in the space of three weeks.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Opponents of the latest redevelopment plans for the Williamstown Swimming&Life Saving Club line the fence.

Tensions flare in seaside suburb over ‘Bondi Icebergs’ proposal

Over seven years,the lifesaving club has gone through three rounds of redevelopment plans,and the neighbourhood is once again divided over the $14.5 million project.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Injured and mistreated horses on the Mount Eliza property of former racehorse trainer Maxine Fraser.

Starving and dead horses at ex-trainer’s ‘farm of horrors’ expose state’s broken cruelty laws

Dozens of horses suffered at a Mount Eliza property while authorities waited for proof of cruelty. Victoria’s laws have failed these animals.

  • Rachael Dexter