A hostage siege is underway in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea with two people believed to be held captive in an apartment, police say.

A Sikh father claims a Melbourne Christian college refused to enrol his five-year-old son if he wore a turban to school.

Plans for the first mosque in the regional Victorian town of Bendigo have been given the go ahead.

One man has been injured and another arrested after a house fire in Melbourne's southeast.

A man has been fined and placed on a good behaviour bond for urinating on a woman at a Spiderbait concert in Melbourne.

A jury has been shown chilling footage of a Melbourne man who was murdered with a knife and set on fire in his car near a suburban sports oval.

A Victorian man in love with a young woman at the helm of a country ice trafficking empire has been jailed for being her "enabler and facilitator".

Hard-working farmers are among the Victorians concerned about alleged misuse of water from the Murray-Darling Basin as the state calls for an inquiry.

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 47-year-old man whose body was found at a reserve in Melbourne.

People with coeliac disease can now dine out withoutfear ofcross-contamination or illness at Australia's first completely gluten-free restaurant.

Victoria is a step closer to creating assisted dying laws for the terminally ill after the government accepted all 66 recommendations of an advisory panel.

A Melbourne taxi passenger ended up driving himself to his hotel after his driver lost consciousness twice while driving from Melbourne Airport.

A passenger was forced to take control of a taxi after his cab driver lost consciousness twice while driving from Melbourne Airport.

Police want to speak to five men in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man under mysterious circumstance in Melbourne's west in June.

A Melbourne nightclub could launch legal action after staff were traumatised after police stormed the premises during a swingers' party and shot two patrons.