First locals return to Wye River as pub reopens
Anna Whitelaw While Wye River residents wait anxiously to return to their bushfire-ravaged homes, the family who owned the pub returned to a ghost town to reopen the pub to emergency workers.
Latest Victoria news
Vroom, vroom groom's hoons terrorise suburbs
Chris Vedelago 6:57 AM Victoria Police is investigating complaints about a pack of motorcyclist hoons that "terrorised" the suburban streets of West Footscray and Yarraville as part of a wedding celebration last week.
Millions wasted as Aussies keep old phones in drawers
Alana Schetzer 4:35 AM Australians are sitting on millions of dollars worth of technology, with almost half of all mobile phone users keeping their old models instead of selling or trading them in.
Melbourne lifesaver on mission of a lifetime
Neelima Choahan 11:46 PM A Melbourne life saver is part of an International team heading to Greece to help save refugees from drowning off the coast of Lesbos.
Motorcyclist in Nunawading becomes the year's first road fatality
Neelima Choahan 11:44 PM A motorcyclist travelling in Nunawading has become the New Year's first fatality.
One dead, four injured in Ballarat car rollover
Goya Dmytryshchak and Craig Butt 9:53 PM A 19-year-old man has died and four others have been injured after the car they were in rolled over in a horror crash near Ballarat.
Sorry tail: mermaids banned from public swimming pools
Craig Butt 9:21 PM Mermaids have just become an endangered species in parts of Victoria.
Punt Road widening gets authority's backing
Clay Lucas 12:15 AM The state's public transport authority has backed a push by VicRoads to widen Punt Road at key choke points, and eventually demolish homes to turn the heavily congested arterial road into a six-lane highway.
Kennett River, the town that was saved, again
Tammy Mills 7:06 PM The relief felt in Kennett River was as palpable as the exhaustion.
Local man charged over Christmas Day Sunbury bushfire
Craig Butt 6:14 PM A 47-year-old man has been charged over two bushfires that were lit in Sunbury in the past week.
Ivanhoe man caught drink-driving more than double the legal limit
Neelima Choahan 6:10 PM A 21-year-old ute driver was off to a bad start on New Year's Day after being caught drink-driving while more than double the legal limit on the Chandler Highway.
Firefighters leave heartwarming note after saving man's home from Great Ocean Road fire
Craig Butt 5:48 PM When bushfires tore through vast swathes on Christmas Day, Lindsay McLachlan feared the worst for his holiday house.
Maxi cab driver in serious condition after hit-run collision
Goya Dmytryshchak 4:48 PM Driver was trapped by his legs in his maxi cab for more than an hour.
Heartless thief steals young cancer patient's phone
Craig Butt, Alana Schetzer 4:46 PM A heartless thief has stolen a 12-year-old cancer patient's phone from her bedside table at the Royal Children's Hospital while she was away watching the New Year's Eve fireworks.
New Year's Eve goes to the dogs
Kirsti Weisz 4:07 PM Rebecca Thompson knew something was wrong when she left Sugar, her seven year old maltese terrier, at home last night to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Melbourne NYE party goes well into next day
Patrick Hatch, Goya Dmytryshchak, Steve Lillebuen, 2:26 PM Scores of merrymakers danced as the sun rose over St Kilda Beach on New Year's Day.
Flagstaff Station opens on weekends as 24-hour public transport begins
Steve Lillebuen 12:57 PM Trains have begun stopping at Flagstaff Station on the weekends as New Year's Eve celebrations kicked off a 90-hour run of continuous public transport services.
Illegal fireworks and injuries mar Melbourne's New Year's Eve celebrations
Patrick Hatch, Steve Lillebuen 12:12 PM Firefighters attend 35 fires caused by illegal fireworks while two men are in hospital fighting for their lives after separate accidents.
The hidden killer: you're eating it
Jason Dowling 12:02 PM It's the scourge that's far more deadly than car crashes and that we consume daily, often unnoticed.
What is Australian cuisine? Aussie cooking bible turns 50
Larissa Dubecki 12:15 AM Fifty years on Cookery the Australian Way is still a household staple.
Icons, prayers and a midnight feast: it's an Aussie Egyptian Christmas
Carolyn Webb 12:15 AM Christmas Day is January 7 for our Coptic Christian community, who will celebrate with marathon religious services, a feast and gifts.
Victorian Bushfires: Otways coast relief; fire threat remains very high
Steve Lillebuen, Tammy Mills 9:33 AM Hundreds of firefighters who battled the Christmas Day blaze on Victoria's Otways coast have welcomed a quieter start to the new year, as forecast milder conditions keep the bushfire from threatening communities and more help begins to arrive from interstate.
Woman injured in motorbike hit-run in Bulleen
Patrick Hatch A woman with arm and leg injuries was taken to hospital after a hit-run involving a motorbike in Bulleen on New Year's Eve, police say.
Melbourne welcomes 2016 with a little help from a cool change
Neelima Choahan, Tammy Mills, Goya Dmytryshchak Revellers flocked to Melbourne's CBD to usher in the New Year and watch the city's biggest ever fireworks display as a cool change dropped the city's temperature more than 10 degrees.
Massive effort unleashed as nightmare conditions return to Great Ocean Road
Tammy Mills, Timna Jacks, Patrick Hatch One of the largest aerial firefighting operations in Victoria's history will be unleashed on Thursday in an attempt to control a blaze near the Great Ocean Road.
Major delays on Williamstown and Werribbee lines after person is hit by train
Neelima Choahan Trains on the Williamstown and Werribee lines have resumed services after being suspended for more than an hour.
Mornington Peninsula hit by New Year's Eve power outages
Craig Butt About 500 homes have been left without electricity after power outages hit the Mornington Peninsula.
How Victorians ushered in the New Year
Goya Dmytryshchak Hundreds of thousands of revellers flocked to Melbourne's CBD to usher in the New Year.
New Year's Eve set to sizzle with high temperatures in store for revellers
Neelima Choahan, Craig Butt Victoria is sizzling through New Year's Eve well before the fireworks have been set off, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees in most parts of the state.
Fears that New Year's revellers will wreck St Kilda beach
Goya Dmytryshchak Port Phillip council is pleading with New Year's Eve revellers not to "destroy" St Kilda beach after nearly six tonnes of rubbish, mainly broken glass, was strewn across the foreshore and South Beach Reserve during an impromptu rave on Christmas night.
Opinion
Andrews' port plan is a fraud on the west
Victoria is facing an infrastructure fiasco rivalling the desalination plant.
Indifference threatens a jewel in Victoria's heritage
In a crook of a hill outside Melbourne, a rare example of Victoria's heritage is crumbling.
A perfect storm led to hospital baby deaths
We must demand transparency and a change in attitude at Bacchus Marsh Hospital.
Hunt’s Melbourne 2200: on a road to nowhere
Environment Minister is still playing Abbott-style politics and his proposals ignore fiscal realities.
The urban myth we just can't shake off
We have the world's most urban culture but we see ourselves as red-dirters, outbackers, bushies.
Hail the fight for workplace safety
The decline in workplace deaths would have been unachievable without the vigilance of unions.
Fighting fire with fire: sometimes it goes wrong
The recent Lancefield bushfires highlight the need to have a plan and then use it.
A premier who keeps his promises? Really?
Premier Daniel Andrews has stuck to his guns, and his commitments.
Flash heatwave forebodes dangerous summer
In less than a week, the bushfire season has descended upon us.
Open letter to Gillon McLachlan
Victim of Brownless' "strippers" comment says the AFL chief should use his power to change the culture of The Footy Show.
Don't be fooled by Andrews' port trickery
Privatising the port to pay for level-crossing removals is a modern version of the pea and thimble trick.
Video
V/Line conductor filmed punching man
Passenger films a V/Line employee as he repeatedly kicks and punches a 46-year-old man at Broadford station.
Andrews wants Melbourne Metro cash from Turnbull
Daniel Andrews wants the allocated $3 billion for East West link to fund the Melbourne Metro.
Inside Australia's goat farming industry
We export the largest quantity of this meat in the world, but most Australians know little about goat farming.
