Amber Irving-Guthrie

English backpacker Charlie Wade was surprised when a girl he met on Snapchat asked him to send a nude photo. Her next message left him in a state of shock.

While Kellie Ottaway she was being prepped for surgery at a Melbourne hospital to receive a donated kidney, her husband Grant was nervously waiting for his own operation — to give one of his kidneys to a stranger.

Plastic bags, straws and microplastics have a deadly reputation when they wind up in the ocean, but there are other everyday items that are killing animals regularly without us noticing.

Platypus choked by hair ties: These ordinary household items are killing our wildlife

Astrid was told she was “almost infertile” last year. Now she and her partner Belinda are expecting their first child in June.

Astrid was told she was “almost infertile” last year. Now she and her partner Belinda are expecting their first child in June.

Astrid was told she was "almost infertile" last year. Now she and her partner Belinda are expecting their first child in June.

Four male koalas are sent from Victorian plantation forests in Gippsland to Adelaide as part of a breeding program to shore up the future of the species.

Victoria has lifted its suspension on IVF procedures but pressure on the health system means women still face delays accessing treatment.

Up to six male south-east Victorian koalas will relocate to Adelaide to help broaden the genetic pool, but local wildlife groups are not impressed. 

COVID cases have jumped in Baw Baw in west Gippsland with 62 cases since Friday. Businesses are opting to return to serving takeaway only in fear of rising cases.

A protest has ended at logging coupes in the Alberton West State Forest in South Gippsland as campaigners attempt to divert a state logging operation.

When outdoor educator Dan Abikhair discovered he had tested positive to COVID-19, he was staying at a remote bush block and his first reaction was to stay there — but contact tracers and his family had other ideas after the Delta strain was confirmed.

Sex workers in Victoria are being forced to choose between giving up their income, working illegally or making use of loopholes to work through the state’s fourth lockdown.

An alpine resort in eastern Victoria says it’s nearly achieved a “true circular economy”. What does that look like?

After turning his phone on after eight days of travelling without reception, Layton Keddy was shocked to see his face plastered all over social media and listed by Victoria Police as a missing person.

For 10 years, Lang Lang residents have been hanging old kettles along Kettles Road. Authorities keep removing them, but is it a storm in a teacup?

Environmentalists say a logging school is working in bushfire-damaged forests in East Gippsland that should be protected.

A regional Victorian mountain bike and BMX trail, dubbed Hell Track, which has kept teenagers out of trouble for nearly 50 years is in danger of being bulldozed.

A regional Victorian mountain bike and BMX trail, dubbed Hell Track, which has kept teenagers out of trouble for nearly 50 years is in danger of being bulldozed.