Updated
Tragedy
School bus driver had medical episode before crash, police believe
Students are devastated after much-loved driver Gary McDonald died in the crash on the way home from school.
- by Robyn Grace, Bridie Smith and Alex Crowe
Latest
Updated
Melbourne emergency
Assumption College school bus driver dies in crash north of Melbourne
Passers-by used a ladder to help pull frightened children out of the school bus after it ran off the road near Kilmore.
- by Bridie Smith and Alex Crowe
‘I was thinking, like, goodbye’: Boy, 11, swept into flooded stormwater drain
Jake Gilbert was clinging to the grate covering the drain when - by chance - an off-duty SES volunteer and Victoria Police constable were nearby and came to pull him free.
- by Bridie Smith
Bug Lab: Giant insects and spiders from Weta Workshop invade Melbourne Museum
The Bug Lab exhibition, which opens in Melbourne on June 23, shows off the skills that insects and spiders use every day, from mind control to swarm intelligence and precision flight. Even the "bugnostic" will be swayed.
- by Bridie Smith Science Editor
Deep sea trawl finds never-seen fish, faceless fish and the shortarse feelerfish
Scientists have plucked some unknown species from depths of the abyss off Australia's east coast.
- by Bridie Smith and Science Editor
From history's page: original native flora prints come home to the State Library
Hundreds of "superbly scientific" artworks have been acquired by the State Library of Victoria, completing one of the most significant collections of early Australian botany.
- by Bridie Smith Science Editor
Street smart Tasmanian devils the key to boosting wild population
Street smarts are the key to boosting the wild population of Tasmanian devils, scientists say.
- by Bridie Smith Science Editor
Voyage to the bottom of our sea will seek new life in Australia's darkest places
Scientists exploring the abyss off Australia's east coast expect to see many new creatures.
- by Bridie Smith and Science Editor
New study demonstrates link between music and statistical learning
Children exposed to at least a year and a half of private music lessons have an edge when it comes to detecting patterns in the world around us, with musical instrument training making their brains better at statistical learning.
- by Bridie Smith Science Editor
Australian scientists run rings around mysteries of Saturn's biggest moon
The harsh atmosphere of Titan has been recreated in a laboratory in suburban Melbourne.
- by Bridie Smith Science Editor
Anzac Day 2017: 'Kids won't march in decades to come . . . you will have lost that connection'
Seventeen-year-old Paul Holland has marched with his father Grant on Anzac Day for as long as he can remember. But on Tuesday the pair weren't in the main Anzac Day parade down St Kilda Road. They were part of a group of about 80 descendants of WWI Diggers marching along Birdwood Avenue.
- by Bridie Smith