Latest from Melbourne

Small business: Crossing the ditch - Bella Katz
Kiwi Bella Katz is a Melbourne-based brand and marketing consultant who advises New Zealand companies going into the Australian market.

Melbourne: Believe the hype
Secreted around every Melbourne corner is a hip and happening surprise, finds Sam Boyer.

Australia: It's show time in Oz
Hop across the ditch and catch some world-class theatre.

Head-bomb man strips naked, surrenders
A man who appeared to have a bomb strapped to his head led police on a chase down a Melbourne motorway before stripping naked and surrendering.

White Night Festival: Up all night
Rachel Bache battles aching feet to take in as much of Melbourne's White Night Festival as she can before sunrise.

Dad kills son in front of other children
An estranged father who killed his 11-year-old son in front of shocked children and parents after cricket practice has died after he was shot by Victoria police.

Family begged victim to leave partner
The family of a former New Zealand woman had pleaded with her repeatedly to leave the man who allegedly killed her in Australia.

Kiwi charged with murder
A young mum who grew up in New Zealand was allegedly killed by her Kiwi partner in a domestic dispute in Melbourne over the weekend.

Melbourne: View to a thrill
As Melbourne hosts a 007 exhibition, Guerin, Michael Guerin, lives the Bond dream.

Melbourne: Facelift for old dame
The city's iconic Queen Victoria Market is set for a A$250 million revamp.

Oliver's Melbourne Cup twist
When you're an Australian sporting legend you walk on water - and Damien Oliver proved it yesterday on a horse called Fiorente.

Melbourne Cup day fashion
The Melbourne Cup is just as much about the fashion on the field as the fillies. Our gallery brings you the best looking ladies at gents at Flemington for race day.

Where Oz meets Hollywood
Melbourne lives up to its reputation as Australia's arts and culture capital, discovers Colin Mathura-Jeffree during a visit to the Winter Masterpieces series.

Phar Lap's body to be virtually rebuilt
Robot technology is bringing legendary racehorse Phar Lap to life for Australian school children.

Bar/fly: Melbourne's alleys
Melbourne offers Colin Hogg a variety of drinking holes, from classic to haunted.

Colin takes in Melbourne's fashion scene
Colin Mathura-Jeffree explores Melbourne's fashion world.

Australia: All bound for Mornington
Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula is an amazing place to see by bike with an audio guide — you can hear about the rich history while you take in the spectacular sights, writes Rachel Grunwell.

Australia: Cycling around Batmania
Armed with the traditional Aboriginal greeting of a gum leaf, Jon Bridges is set to discover Melbourne on two wheels.

Melbourne: Out on the town
A girls' weekend away in Melbourne's vibrant CBD turns into a riot of food, fun and sightseeing, writes Sharon Stephenson.

Australia: Melbourne's best Greek restaurants
Experience some of the best Greek food outside of Athens at these establishments...

Australia: My memorable date with great ape
Meeting great apes is a dream realised, writes Colin Mathura-Jeffree.

Gems in Melbourne's oldest suburb
Centrally located just 2km north east of Melbourne's CBD, Fitzroy was Melbourne's first suburb. A vibrant culture of bars, cafes, galleries, quirky bookstores and fashionable hair salons now abound, crammed into every nook and cranny of its old bones.

Melbourne: Inside the temple of Warnie
Winston Aldworth visits a modern tribute to one of cricket's traditional folk heroes.

Wynne Gray: Brian O'Driscoll in Melbourne
There is no surprise the Lions clarion call is coming from Brian O'Driscoll, a four time tourist on his final expedition in search of an elusive series win.

It's cold in Melbourne, too
Melburnians woke today to the city's coldest June morning in more than a decade.

Melbourne: Delights await foodies
Peter Calder returns to the city that introduced him to decent food.

Killer is a convicted rapist on parole, court hears
Convicted rapist Adrian Ernest Bayley was on parole when he raped and murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher.