Kristian Silva

Victorian prosecutors who charged a 12-year-old girl with murder could drop the case against her and are waiting on a psychiatrist's report before making their decision, the Supreme Court has been told.

A 36-year-jail term handed down to Luay Sako for the violent murder of Melbourne woman Celeste Manno will not be appealed by prosecutors.

Uber has admitted breaking Australian laws when it launched its ridesharing app, a court has heard, as the founders of a rival company seek hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

Two rail companies have been fined a total of $525,000 over a deadly crash which resulted in a passenger train flying off the tracks at high speed on Melbourne's outskirts.

Two rail companies have been fined a total of $525,000 over a fatal train crash at Wallan, on Melbourne's outskirts, in 2020. The train driver and his co-worker died in the crash.

A Melbourne businessman has avoided jail after pleading guilty to a child sex offence. His identity is the subject of a 20-year suppression order.

A week of bad publicity for Woolworths just got worse. On Tuesday, its outgoing CEO Brad Banducci was threatened with jail time for refusing to answer questions in a Senate inquiry examining supermarket price gouging.

Accused triple murderer Erin Patterson has faced court for the first time in five months over the alleged mushroom poisonings of her relatives last year.

Victorian prosecutors have lost a bid to send two neo-Nazis back to jail over a violent attack on a group of hikers in a state park.

A Tesla owner who crashed into a pedestrian and falsely blamed the vehicle's "autopilot" feature has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and failing to stop.