The confidential information of about 120 Victorian families who homeschool vulnerable kids is inadvertently published on the Victorian Education Department website for 24 hours.

Governments should be open to the idea of re-regulating household gas and electricity prices if retailers do not improve their offering to consumers, the head of Victoria's energy watchdog says.

Australia is to become the first country in the world to introduce a tough new system to protect patients from medical professionals accused of sexual misconduct.

Relatives of a Melbourne man who says he killed his mother during a psychotic episode previously raised concerns he faked his symptoms, a court is told.

Comedian Magda Szubanski remembers John Clarke as a "brilliant" political satirist who showed a great moral compass with his sharp take on Australian politics.

One of Australia's greatest sports broadcasters, Greg Miles, will call his final horse race this weekend, almost four decades after he "really made a botch" of his very first call.

Do you find comfort in music? The Threshold Choir sings for people on the cusp of death, hoping to help them rest and relax.

A Federal Government plan to tackle housing affordability through a scheme to increase lower cost rental properties will only benefit part of the community, a Victorian planning expert says.

Melbourne will be without Max Gawn until well into the second half of the AFL season after it is confirmed the All-Australian ruckman will need surgery because of a hamstring injury.

The high saleyard prices of sheep and low slaughter rates have already seen smaller abattoirs shut down this year.

A manager at a women's prison in Melbourne helped his son win more than $1.5 million worth of maintenance contracts to help him set up his plumbing business, Victoria's corruption watchdog finds.

After long months of consultation, winemakers finally agree on reforms to their sector's tax scheme.

Satirist John Clarke, of Clarke and Dawe fame, "spoke truth to power" and kept politicians on their toes, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says, after the comedian dies suddenly while bushwalking.

Melbourne's oldest piece of public art, a monument to ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills, is removed from public display for an expected five to six years.

Victorian authorities deal with widespread damage after gale-force winds and heavy rain hit much of the state, leading to more than 1,000 calls for assistance and morning commuter delays in Melbourne.

Every year, a thousand kids spend a night in a Melbourne sleep lab, where everything from eye movements to breathing patterns are monitored to work out what is stopping them from sleeping soundly.

A motorist who struck a 37-year-old pedestrian in Melbourne's west, leaving him in a critical condition, was witnessed stopping and briefly looking back before driving off, Victorian police say.

Melbourne's Queer Formal provides hundreds of LGBTI teenagers a safe space to bring a same-sex partner or dress according to their chosen gender identity and dance the night away.

Authorities complete investigations into three matches at this year's Australian Open, and find no evidence of corrupt activity.

Three people are shot in the legs near a bikie gang clubhouse in Melbourne's north, the same place former Bandidos enforcer Toby Mitchell was shot.

Melbourne City is within touching distance of a home final after Tim Cahill's stunning header earned a well-deserved 1-0 win over Adelaide United at AAMI Park.

A Victorian court releases footage from inside the hastily set-up youth justice centre inside the maximum security Barwon Prison, which shows teenagers being capsicum-sprayed during a disturbance now under investigation.

Hundreds of people who claim to have voted in last year's Victorian local government elections have received infringement notices for allegedly having not voted. But why?

More than 5,000 residents in a central Victorian shire have completed a youth mental health first aid course and dramatically reduced their once high suicide rates to zero, amongst participants.

The 25-year-old fake wellness blogger is ordered to pay $30,000 in costs — with a further six-figure penalty possible — over misleading and deceptive conduct.

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