Freya Michie

A US trend of people dressing up as creepy clowns in public has come to Victoria, prompting local police to warn antisocial behaviour will not be tolerated.

Prestigious independent Victorian school Geelong Grammar says it wants to encourage survivors of past child abuse at the school who have not yet come forward to contact them for “guidance and support”.

A man is taken to hospital with burns to his hands and face as a large fire engulfs a gas cylinder factory in Kilsyth, while firefighters are confronted by airborne cylinders exploding “like sky rockets”.

An emotional father thanks a good Samaritan who rescued his daughter as she was being sexually assaulted in a Melbourne park.

Refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi becomes a citizen and is welcomed to “the Australian family” by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a month after being freed from a Thai prison.

The sister of a woman found dead in a laneway in Melbourne's Chinatown describes her as a loving woman who was "always there for everybody", as a court hears her accused killer had recently stopped taking medication prescribed to treat schizophrenia.

Emergency services are warning Victorians to brace for a cold snap and wind gusts of up to 130kph in parts of the south-east, while alpine areas may enjoy heavier snowfall.

Melbourne’s nursing homes are struggling to contain coronavirus, with doctors calling for an interstate staffing “surge” and aged care advocates saying the military could be brought in to help.

Business lobby says even a short lockdown in Victoria will have “monumental social and economic costs” and call for a national plan to manage COVID-19 outbreaks.

There was cause for optimism about Melbourne's coronavirus outbreak, but with the emergence of four new cases, things suddenly aren't so clear cut. Here's what we know.