In this article I will briely review the current status of radio observations of nearby supernovae and their remnants. This review will initially address observations of the radio light curves of nearby core-collapse supernovae, followed by a more detailed summary of recent Very Long Baseline Interferometric observations of the expansion of nearby supernovae and their remnants. These later sections will concentrate on a few sources, namely those found in M82, SN1993J, and the recent supernovae SN2004et. In addition I will discuss the many radio detections of supernovae found in the highly obscured centres of starburst galaxies, such as M82 and Arp220, where no optical detections are possible.

16 pages, 11 figures, to appear in the proceedings of `The 8th European VLBI Network Symposium on New Developments in VLBI Science and Technology', ed. A. Marecki et al., held in Torun, Poland, on September 26-29, 2006 (Invited Review). Some figures have degraded resolution. Full resolution is available at http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~rbeswick/papers/papers.html#conf