In most neighbourhoods, you would be hard pressed to find public buildings grander than a primary school, a church and an RSL. Not so in Parkville. This inner-city enclave screams civic importance ...

Somebody should have told that to the bus driver who picked up new migrants in the 1950s and drove them through Royal Park, in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, on their way to central Victoria.

Forensic officers and SES crews were combing the park for evidence. Parkville's parklands, near Melbourne Zoo and Melbourne University, are popular with joggers, dog walkers and cyclists.

TWO big walkways will link a new underground station at Parkville to the University of Melbourne as part of the Melbourne Metro Project. The $11 billion project will carve two 9km tunnels ...