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Food delivery revolution

CBD tops the  2016 residential sales list

The CBD has taken out the number one spot for the highest total value of residential unit sales for 2016.

Developing young talent

Young Melbourne artists developed their skills alongside professionals last month at the CBC-based Signal Summer Program.

Mass exodus by community staff

The City of Melbourne’s placemaking and engagement branch, which focuses on strengthening our local community, has recently been the subject of major staff losses.  

VCAT out of reach of locals

CBD locals are despondent that serious financial risk has prevented them from challenging a controversial City of Melbourne planning decision late last year.

Looking for a social conscience

These days everyone likes to advertise their differences including Marcus Dixon, the Big Issue seller in Flinders Lane, who makes up a little riff about the magazine to amuse buyers.

$8 million gallery gift

An $8 million donation from the John and Myriam Wylie Foundation is enabling the State Library of Victoria to build a new gallery.

Plenty of Chinese New Year choices

CBD residents have plenty of choices this Chinese New Year, which gets underway on Friday, January 27 and concludes on February 12.

Apartment standards have been relaxed

Victoria’s new apartments standards to become law next month are significantly more relaxed than the draft that was circulated in the middle of last year.