Emma D'agostino

Residents of a rapidly growing area near one of Victoria’s biggest cities are being asked to vote for or against street mail delivery in Australia Post’s third ballot on the issue in six years.

Industry professionals say there are better interventions to help people break into the property market, but some fear axing the first home owner grant will send the “wrong message”.

A Victorian cycling club that lost one of its own in a crash last year is concerned it is not being heard, as authorities work to finalise designs for safety improvements on the deadly stretch of road.

A Victorian school’s principal says the theft has been “crushing” for a community still doing it tough, seven months after the disaster of the 2022 floods.

Tributes flow for 48-year-old motorcycle racer Warren Monson, who crashed and died during a Test & Tune event at the Heathcote Park Raceway in central Victoria.

Bendigo boy Teale Hammond had his lower right leg amputated in February and is facing more chemotherapy but is still looking forward to being “up and running again”.

An inquest into a 25-year-old psychiatric patient’s death has resulted in recommendations for police on both sides of the Victoria-NSW border to improve coordination on missing persons cases.

The Capital was originally a Masonic Hall — considered one of the grandest of its time. After a community campaign to save it from demolition it’s now celebrating 150 years.

Glenda Nichol is one of many in the flood-ravaged town of Rochester who have stepped up to be a rock for others as the community recovers.

Residents say the feeling is in some ways similar to the lockdowns at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but now their homes and businesses are at risk.