Robert Issa News Today

Police issue an alarming letter as tensions escalate. Discover the frightening details and what this means for ordinary Aussies.

An unknown man on a phone allegedly threatened a Craigieburn tobacco shop owner, suggesting that their store would be firebombed if they wouldn’t pay up.

More than 30 arson attacks on tobacco shops and other small businesses has prompted calls for greater police resourcing and an urgent regulatory response from the Allan government.

Once considered the heartland of Melbourne’s criminal world and linked to Lewis Moran and Tony Mokbel, most key gangland players have left Brunswick for the safety of high-rise buildings in the CBD.

Mick Gatto found himself in the hot seat as veteran journalist Natalie Barr fearlessly posed a question that left many on the edge of their seats.

The gravesite of one of Australias most notorious underworld figures has been revealed to have a very humble, handwritten wooden plaque.

Boxes stacked high in a fully laden shipping container. The Manchester brand looks legitimate, proclaiming itself the “house of quality”, but it is all a ruse.

Victorian detectives play catch-up as they suspect a ‘large proportion of the tobacco industry has been infiltrated by serious and organised crime’

Baryalai Rahmanzai was sleeping next to his pregnant wife when their Dandenong home was sprayed with bullets. Now he feels less safe in Melbourne than in Afghanistan.

A man who was seriously injured in a shooting outside a Melbourne shopping centre over the weekend has been...