Dan Oakes

The federal government has been urged to secure supplies of COVID therapy drugs amid fears Australia could be left at the back of the queue as the world's focus turns from vaccines to medicines to treat the disease.

The Victorian opposition has upped the stakes in the pre-election healthcare bidding war, pledging to train 40,000 nurses as part of a $325 million plan if it wins government in November.

Former governor and champion runner John Landy is remembered as a humble man “renowned for his integrity”, at a state memorial service in Melbourne.

A crane company is convicted and fined $400,000 over the death of a worker who had a large container filled with concrete fall on him at a Melbourne building site.

Much of south-eastern Australia will continue to shiver through unseasonal conditions in the coming days after a cold and wet Easter weekend.

Exiled Liberal MP Moira Deeming could be expelled from the party next week after threatening to take legal action to reverse her partyroom suspension.

After his shock death at a Victorian racetrack, Dean Holland is remembered at his funeral as a doting father and loving partner with a cheeky grin and lust for life.

Businesses will be slugged with higher premiums and criteria around mental health claims tightened as the state government grapples with a “broken” WorkCover system.

Victoria’s health department is urging people with flu-like symptoms to get tested after an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at Cheltenham, in the city’s south-east.

Yet again, Melbourne has been rocked (or slightly shaken) by an earthquake. According to Geosciences Australia, the tremor was actually an aftershock from a quake in 2021 that was centred near the tiny town of Woods Point in Victoria’s High Country.