New figures have highlighted the extent of youth gang crime in Victoria, with thousands of offences committed in the past 12 ...

Victorian youth gangs have become the focus of police's tough anti-association orders as authorities attempt to stop criminal conduits connecting violent teens with organised crime thugs.

Victoria Police laid 4,300 charges against Melbourne youth gang members last year, including almost 400 for the possession of weapons such as machetes ...

Hundreds of gang members remain under observation after thousands of charges were laid in 2025.

A jogger is being investigated by police after he allegedly spewed homophobic slurs at three strangers in an unprovoked attack at a Melbourne park.

Adam Deacon’s early-intervention program, which has received $27m in government funding, seeks to prevent offending by understanding the child behind the behaviour ...

Across four nights, police netted 51 arrests, recovered seven stolen cars and impounded 11 others as part of a major blitz in ...

Melbourne police devoted six times more officers than Sydney when warned of the risk of violence at December’s Chanukah ...

Police have started hitting youth gang members with tough anti-association orders after they were linked to alarming gun crime levels and stabbings at a rate of almost one a week.

Anti-immigration protesters are set to converge for the annual Invasion Day rally in Melbourne’s CBD on Monday.

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