Gillian Aeria

Many regional aged care facilities are failing to attract staff to meet a requirement to have a registered nurse on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week from mid-next year.

When Dean Robertson opened the insurance renewal notice for his home in western Victoria, he received a rude shock. His home and contents coverage was just shy of $2,000, while the remainder of his $10,400 bill was for potential flood damage.

All 11 residents at the western Victorian aged care home have been relocated ahead of its closure today, but the peak body warns new staffing rules to come into play from July will put pressure on other small country facilities to remain feasible.

A Victorian MP calls on the state government to intervene in contract negotiations between Grampians Health and a Stawell GP whose resignation has devastated residents.

Doctors are worried about the future of a regional hospital and the health of its locals as contract disputes continue in regional Victoria.

Holland was in the final sprint to the finish line when his horse veered and crashed into the inside rail during the opening race at Donald in western Victoria.

When Ian Whiting began planting trees and shrubs on his Victorian sheep farm, he didn’t realise his efforts would create a valuable habitat for a diverse range of birds beyond the usual magpies and crows he saw.

In only four months, the Wimmera’s only homelessness outreach worker has found more than 60 rough sleepers. Injured abattoir worker Shane is one of them — and the number of people like him is expected to “explode”.

Victorians face warnings of extreme heat and another storm threat just a week after a fire destroyed 46 homes in Pomonal and an intense storm killed a man in Gippsland.

Victorian authorities brace for difficult fire conditions with high temperatures and storms with dry lightning forecast this week.