The board of a popular Victorian alpine resort faces the sack for spending $85,000 of taxpayers' money on family trips overseas, entertaining friends, bonuses and extravagant staff prizes.
Severe storms are on the way for Melbourne and parts of Victoria, as humidity in the city soars to levels more familiar to residents of Brisbane or Sydney.
Amber Dawson lives in the heart of Melbourne's heroin trade and believes a safe injecting room will help put a stop to the daily ritual of people shooting up in front of her family home.
Victoria's once hard-line conservative premier Jeff Kennett says he has "come a long way" on drug policy, and has backed a new report calling for the decriminalisation of some drugs, including cannabis and ecstasy.
Two years of drought may have wrought havoc on a yabby farm in western Victoria, but this year the rains and the freshwater crayfish are back in abundance.
Two former LJ Hooker real estate agents, Tri Ngo and Truc Nguyen, will face more than 300 charges relating to the misappropriation of more than $2 million of client money, including new charges over having insufficient funds in their trust account.
Olympic gold medallist Danielle Roche will stand against long-time incumbent John Coates for the Australian Olympic Committee presidency, citing a significant cut to the position's salary as one of her key priorities.
Is 2017 the year that Aussie Daniel Ricciardo can break through for his first Formula One world championship? Two former world champions certainly think so.
Opening up the free market and selling off government assets may have been good in the short-term, but it has left Australia in a dismal position when it comes to gas and the overarching energy crisis, business editor Ian Verrender writes.
Water begins flowing from Victoria's desalination plant more than four years after it was completed, as the Government moves to reassure Victorians that water bills will not go up as the result of a new regular water order.
A $60-million multi-functional park in Melbourne's inner south-east promises to provide desperately needed open space as the city grapples with population growth.
Stephen Asling is found guilty of the murder of the gangland figure known as 'The Munster', an act the court heard was ordered by underworld kingpin Carl Williams.
The troubled Geelong City Council is likely to go to election in October and elected councillors will nominate a mayor, after the Victorian Government announced it supported recommendations from a group of local residents.
The "clumsy" use of restraints and handcuffs have injured children in Victoria's troubled juvenile jails, a parliamentary committee is told, while lockdowns were so frequent some detainees were uncertain when they were allowed to leave their rooms.
