Andi Yu

Lisa Thompson says her final weekend with her boyfriend Neal Thompson before he was killed in a shooting at Porepunkah was their best yet. 

The SES says it received more than 1,400 requests for assistance in the past 24 hours, and is funnelling its resources into the Warrnambool and Portland areas.

A massive search continues for a Porepunkah man who allegedly shot and killed two police officers at his property in rural Victoria. 

City of Melbourne councillors have voted for an amendment that will see the municipality advocate to reduce disruption caused by protests to businesses, in a proposal that will now go to community consultation.

Writers scheduled to appear at the event in central Victoria this weekend are refusing to turn up because of a code of conduct they believe limits freedom of speech.

A superannuation fund does not know how many members have been impacted after mail was stolen from Australia Post in Melbourne's CBD.

Six new train stations linking Box Hill in Melbourne's east to Cheltenham in the south-east are under construction but the funding stream is not locked in yet. However, Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop Minister Harriet Shing is confident the Commonwealth and developers will get on board.

Police investigating a Melbourne childcare worker accused of child sex crimes have charged a second man with serious offences, including bestiality.

Former leader John Pesutto has expressed his gratitude to the Victorian Liberal Party after its administrative committee voted to lend him $1.55 million to pay his legal costs to MP Moira Deeming.

Environmental groups and locals have condemned the approval of a proposed gas terminal project off the coast of Geelong, which the state government says will shore up energy supplies.

Former Liberal premier Jeff Kennett is among three former Victorian Liberal leaders named in a legal letter from MP Moira Deeming about recovering legal costs from John Pesutto's financial backers.

A 34-year-old woman has been killed in a police shooting, officers say, after she drove a vehicle at police who were arresting a machete-wielding man.

Following the completion of a full distribution of preferences in the inner-Melbourne seat on Saturday, giving Liberal candidate Tim Wilson a win by 260 votes, independent MP Zoe Daniel has asked for a recount, claiming "errors" and "votes moving to and fro in the final stages of the count".

Voter rejection of the Liberal Party in Victoria has been made clear in last night's federal election, including in the losses of one-term Menzies MP Keith Wolahan and Deakin MP Michael Sukkar.

Victoria's paramedics union is blaming Ambulance Victoria management for any breaches of COVID restrictions when 40 staff attended a secret 2021 gathering to honour a colleague who had died. 

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre says a riot started at Melbourne Immigration Detention Centre when frustrations about healthcare boiled over.

Federal minister Clare O'Neil says the Victorian government has to explain its funding needs beyond the $2 billion it has promised for the state's $34.5 billion rail loop project.

Aboriginal rights trailblazer Margaret Tucker is among a group of remarkable women being put in the spotlight in a bid to improve gender representation in Victoria's public art.

Shearing contractor Barry Clark arrived in Sydney on Friday to cheers from Jetstar staff, thanking him for his quick actions to subdue a 17-year-old who allegedly had a shotgun.

The Esoteric Musical Festival in north-west Victoria has been cancelled at the last minute after its permit application was knocked back by the local council's building surveyor.

A passenger on the JQ610 flight to Sydney, Barry Clark, says he tackled a young man to the ground when he saw him holding a shotgun.

The Victorian government is preparing to trial electronic monitoring devices on teenage criminals who are on bail in an attempt to re-engage them with school.

The state government has named an additional 25 locations across metropolitan Melbourne where it wants to change planning rules to fast-track housing development.

Card game store owners say there has been a spike in break-ins at shops across Melbourne where people are stealing piles of Pokemon cards in wheelie bins.

Alexandra Paton, who researches how to manage feral cat populations, says her PhD is important for Australia's wildlife but her income is lower than what she earned as a teenager at Macca's.