Install
The Age has the latest local news on Melbourne, Victoria. Read National News from Australia, World News, Business News and Breaking News stories.
- 2,016articles · 30d
- 17+ min agolatest article
- Aug 13, 2026earliest in window
- 0%with images
- 247avg words
- Sports & Fitness 621
- Sports 603
- Sport 573
- News 341
- Sensitive Subjects 332
- Crime & Law 325
- Politics 315
- Crime, Law & Justice 300
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
The major Brisbane roads set to use AI to speed up traffic
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (458+ words) September 10, 2026 — 2:41pm Artificial intelligence will be rolled out on two Brisbane roads to change traffic light sequences in real time and speed up traffic as part of a six-month trial, according to Brisbane council. The AI system will take place on…...
Airport pushes ahead with controversial changes as part of expansion plans
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (722+ words) September 7, 2026 — 5:00am Drivers have only one month left to use the current drop-off and pick-up areas at Melbourne Airport as it presses ahead with its controversial plans to scrap the arrival and departure ramps as part of the airport’s expansion. Kerbside…...
A 1923 map to extend the tram network may provide a solution
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1143+ words) September 2, 2026 — 11:30am Wiam Bou Karram’s morning commute is often a frustrating one, as he tackles one of the city’s busiest highways on the 14-kilometre trip from his home in Moorabbin to work in South Melbourne. “You’ve got three lanes, and they’re…...
Residents had been parking here for years. Then they got fined
1+ week, 4+ day ago (522+ words) September 1, 2026 — 11:10am For more than a decade, Darren Henley and other residents of Abbeville Street have been parking on the grassy verge opposite their houses, adjacent to their local park. The verge is an ideal spot to park to keep the…...
I thought I knew every travel scam in the book, but new ones are emerging
1+ week, 6+ day ago (426+ words) August 31, 2026 — 5:00am From more than 100km/h we came to a complete stop before he started off again. I did the same, pulled out next to him and showed him a few gestures that would have surprised even an Italian. He responded…...
How to leak a travel piece
2+ week, 3+ day ago (193+ words) Maureen Partridge, Mark Southcott, Ian Costley, Jim Pollitt, Joe Moore, Brian Harris, Ben Groundwater, James White, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh August 26, 2026 — 9:00pm “Up early and reading an online story about British pubs by Herald travel expert Ben Groundwater, I was…...
How council plans to avoid a repeat of Riverfire crowd crush
2+ week, 6+ day ago (587+ words) August 24, 2026 — 5:00am The number of buses and trains needed to get thousands of spectators home after last year’s Riverfire spectacular was vastly underestimated, creating frightening crowd crushes, authorities have conceded. Last year, Brisbane City Council allowed for 7800 extra passenger trips for…...
The beauty of the southern forests
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (39+ words) Video produced for the National Parks Association launch of the Great Southern Forest proposal. Credit: David Gallan August 22, 2026 — 11:46am...
This Sydney motorway was set to open in 2028. Now there’s no date
3+ week, 1+ day ago (399+ words) August 21, 2026 — 3:38pm The NSW roads minister has admitted there is no completion date for the $3 billion M6 motorway in Sydney’s south, despite earlier advice from the state’s transport agency that it would open to motorists by late 2028 as work was more than…...
Flight delays at Sydney airport today
3+ week, 3+ day ago (45+ words) Travellers flying in and out of Sydney airport are being warned about delays of up to an hour this afternoon. August 20, 2026 — 6:00am...