• Marika Dobbin and Nick Toscano

At least twelve people have been injured, with one in a 'critical condition', after a train was derailed when it collided with a semi-trailer near Colac.

• Clay Lucas

A proposed 17-storey development in Clifton Hill has some residents' noses out of joint.

• Henrietta Cook

One of Victoria's top private schools has been accused by a whistleblower of "systematic cheating" after it granted students an extra year to complete the high stakes International Baccalaureate, an alternative to the VCE.

• Cameron Houston, Adam Cooper and Chris Vedelago

Contractor who told police he'd been punched in the face by a masked man before fire destroyed a hotel part-owned by Collingwood's Dane Swan has faced court over the arson attack.

• Adam Carey

There are fresh calls to ban horse-drawn carriages from Swanston Street after a horse driven by an unlicensed operator smashed its head through the window of a tram, sustaining minor injuries including a cut face.

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• Beau Donelly

The confidential information of at-risk children and the foster carers who look after them has been breached multiple times by the Victorian government agency responsible for their safety.

• Melissa Singer

If the launch of the Melbourne Spring Fashion Week is any indication, get ready for lots of bare shoulder and pink this summer.

• Darren Gray

Consumers are forking out top dollar for beef, paying a record $19.16 per kilogram, a $2.22 rise on the first quarter of 2015.

• Emily Woods, Chloe Booker

Temperatures have plummeted across Victoria and winds have picked up, leaving the state freezing and wild on Wednesday morning.

• Neelima Choahan

Melbourne Zoo's battling elephant calf - nicknamed "Willow" by keepers - has survived a 3½-hour procedure and is edging towards recovery.

• Neelima Choahan

Police shocked to discover hundreds of snakes, lizards, frogs and crocodiles at a house in Geelong.

• Adam Cooper

Convicted murderer Adrian Bayley will now spend a minimum of 40 years behind bars after the Court of Appeal sliced three years off his sentence.

• Cameron Houston

A bomb scare at Webb Dock East 's international container terminal has been resolved after a suspicious object was found to be a mooring device.

• Emily Woods

After being followed down the street by an unknown man, a young woman was attacked while trying to open the front door of a Coburg house last month.

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• Deborah Gough

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• Emily Woods

The victim of a shooting in Dallas on Tuesday night is yet to be identified, with police releasing information on more gun incidents on Wednesday morning.

• Daniel Flitton

Joe Biden, the US Vice President who lost his son to brain cancer last year, will travel to Melbourne to tour Melbourne's new billion-dollar cancer treatment and research centre.

• Clay Lucas

The 58,000 lights on the outside of the new Docklands apartment building where Collins and Bourke streets now meet are hard to see during the day. Visit the 15-storey tower at night from Wednesday, though, and it will be a different story.

• Nick Toscano

A man has been shot and killed by a gunman in Melbourne's north.