When the demand for power exceeds supply, sometimes electricity networks cut people off from power to prevent the whole system from collapsing. It's called load shedding. This is how it works.
Victoria should brace itself for extreme weather over the next few days, with the bureau forecasting damaging winds, flooding rains and snow before conditions clear up for Melbourne Cup day.
A Melbourne council puts on hold a controversial plan from Melbourne Victory Football Club to turn part of Footscray Park into a soccer academy, instead voting to set up a community advisory panel to consider the proposal.
The 17-year-old will not be making a complaint against the far-right senator for striking him twice in the head, or against bystanders who tackled him to the ground and restrained him in a chokehold, his lawyer says.
He earned admirers around the world when he smashed an egg on the head of far-right senator Fraser Anning, but was #eggboy's stunt an act of political violence?
Meralyn Klein discusses being assaulted by migrant teenagers in a video that calls for a Muslim immigration ban, but says she has no association with the rival party that produced it, and they "made it into something it's not".
Victorians deemed as possible terror threats could be banned from areas like Melbourne's CBD or forced to wear electronic monitoring devices under an election promise from the State Opposition.
The Victorian Government publishes an agreement it signed with China over its controversial global infrastructure initiative, after several days of pressure from the Opposition and the Federal Government.