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Narelle Lawton and her sons at their Yallambie home.

These residents were told their road would reopen. Now it’s gone forever

Residents in Yallambie will be limited to just one road in and out of their suburb after the major project decided to permanently close a key section of road.

  • Gemma Grant

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Banyule locals (L-R) Heather Smith, Don Stokes and Mariella Di Fabio are concerned wildlife will be pushed out of the area without the promised underpass.

North East Link quietly scraps promised wildlife crossing, leaving kangaroos stranded

The road project was supposed to provide an underpass for kangaroos. Instead, it has built a rope bridge for possums.

  • Patrick Hatch
Kensington resident Airdre Grant at the intersection of Macaulay, Epsom and Kensington roads.

‘It’s petrifying’: Inner-west locals fear for safety after truck spike

Since the opening of the West Gate Tunnel, residents say more trucks are avoiding the toll road and rat-running near schools and shops, sparking safety fears.

  • Rachael Ward
Brian and Sue Candy.

‘Someone will eventually be killed’: The decades-long call for a local truck bypass

An average of 50 trucks an hour drive down the main street of Lang Lang, a small town between Melbourne and Phillip Island that is a major raw material provider.

  • Gemma Grant
Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly stands at the site of Saturday’s Hoddle Street blaze.

The high-stakes ‘game of chicken’ highlighted by a median-strip fire

A grass fire along Hoddle Street has exposed the danger of overgrown state-owned median strips and verges.

  • Rachael Dexter
Blairgowrie Café owner Daryl Ferguson, who says driving is the only feasible option for locals travelling elsewhere for work.

The sleepy seaside suburb where Melburnians claim the highest car expenses

The top 10 postcodes where Melburnians claim the highest average work-related car expenses are revealed in analysis of ATO data.

  • Cassandra Morgan
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Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal collision in Cressy this morning.

Men killed in train crash at level crossing west of Melbourne identified as locals

Emergency services were called to Cressy, about 140 kilometres west of Melbourne, after a crash involving a freight train and a car.

  • Isabel McMillan and Alexander Darling
An aerial view of the sinkhole at AJ Burkitt Oval in Heidelberg.

‘Preventable incident’: Heidelberg sinkhole blamed on North East Link tunnelling crew

A sinkhole that appeared at a sports oval in Heidelberg last week was the result of an error by a North East Link Project tunnelling crew, and could have been avoided. 

  • Patrick Hatch
Melbourne drivers are not to be trigled with.

Melburnians are friendlier than Sydneysiders – but on the road they are lunatics

Merging in Melbourne is murder: as soon as you indicate, the car beside will almost always speed up to block you.

  • Dan Kaufman
A 14km/h section of Peninsula Link will have reduced speed limits until February.

Mornington holidaymakers face unexpected delays as roadworks extended

Only 13 years after opening, major roadworks to the Peninsula Link are frustrating locals and summer visitors alike.

  • Patrick Hatch