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CFA chief executive Lucinda Nolan has resigned. In a statement to CFA members at 3pm on Friday Ms Nolan said it had bee an honour to serve as the authority's first female CEO.

Customers of Melbourne bar Shebeen were told “every beer, wine, cider and margarita sale” sent money to developing countries. Except they didn’t.

A man has been stabbed to death in Port Melbourne.

A lawyer has been questioned about an alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in relation to the 2009 murder of Mohammed Haddara.

A man who stabbed the mother of four of his children to death in broad daylight offered to plead guilty to her murder, but on one crucial condition – that prosecutors drop evidence he was the one with the knife.

A body has been found in Melbourne's northern suburbs this afternoon.

Three men have been found guilty of the murder of Brendan Bernard over a $60 drug debt. His dismembered body parts were fished out of the Maribyrnong River last year..

Victoria Police did not lay charges against a policeman who sexually brutalised his three step-children and six other children over an eight-year period, the County Court was told on Friday.

The defiant CFA board has formally been sacked with five replacements already announced, emergency services minister James Merlino has announced.

Thousands of party-goers are gearing up for this year's Winter Solstice Festival.

A 22-year-old man is in custody after a police chase on Friday morning.

Victoria Police say a"pipe containing black powder", which was found at a Geelong house, has been "made safe" by the bomb squad.

Skiers will have to wait before they can hit the slopes with the weather bureau predicting some decent snow only next week.

Victorian urban planning stalwart Des Eccles has quit the Planning Institute of Australia in disgust.

"She had made some wrong decisions and fallen in with the wrong crowd but she wanted to get back on track for mum. It was killing mum . . . it broke her heart."

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A mother is appealing for help to find her backpacker son who has not returned from his trip to Europe.

Victoria's corruption watchdog is resisting a push for greater secrecy and an end to public hearings, warning that such a move would erode public confidence and lead to suspicions it is misusing its power.

Cash-strapped schools are hiring out their teachers to raise desperately-needed funds.  

Patrick Cronin's parents speak out over a Supreme Court judge's decision to grant bail to the man accused of murdering their teenage son with one fatal punch.

One person has died and second has been taken to hospital because of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a home in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

Danny Nikolic clears major hurdle in his bid to get back in the saddle.

Was Australia invaded or settled? What's the difference between Aboriginal, Koori and Indigenous people?

Firefighters are investigating the cause of a fire at a Telstra telephone exchange in Brunswick.

Altona-bound lanes closed after six cars and a cattle truck collide, leaving a woman fighting for life in hospital.

Police hold fears for a heavily pregnant intellectually disabled teen who has been missing since last Wednesday.

The ''dream factory'' - ABC TV's Elsternwick studios to be open to the public for the first, and possibly last, time.

For years, the parents of people with disabilities have worried about where their children will live when they die. A happy share house in a Geelong suburb offers one answer.

It's an annual spectacular underwater show that occurs in the shallow waters off the beaches of Port Phillip Bay. And it's happening right now.

'She's an elephant,' Melbourne Zoo's vet says of struggling calf. 'We're unsure at this stage how she'll respond to treatments used in horses.'