Joanna Crothers

Plenty of us use them, but just how effective are mindfulness apps? And can a few minutes of meditation in your lunchbreak really change your brain? These experts take very different views.

How do we get kids to engage in learning more about food than "apples are good" and "too many lollies are bad"? Writer and former teacher Alice Zaslavsky has some ideas.

Police are questioning a man after a mother of four died in hospital after she was shot in her Geelong home on Wednesday night.

A local community on the Bellarine Peninsula is alarmed at the decision to bury a whale carcass near a popular surf beach, with fears it could attract sharks to the area.

Anxious residents in Melbourne’s western suburbs call on Premier Daniel Andrews to visit the area to inspect the damage caused by last month’s industrial inferno amid concerns about residents’ health.

Prosecutors in the trial of three men accused of planning a terrorist attack in Melbourne’s CBD tell court the accused were motivated by extremist jihadist ideology.

Despite apologising for the comments of a former host, The Pulse 94.7 FM in Geelong has recently received a legal writ from former Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons.

Gender bias in musical instrument selection hinders women from joining Australia’s jazz scene, according to performers at this year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Transgender athlete Hannah Mouncey, who was banned from playing in the AFLW, now has her sights set on the top echelon of another sport.

Homicide detectives make a direct appeal to members of the Comancheros bikie gang to come forward over the murder of a 22-year-old man in Melbourne’s south-east, as they conduct controlled burns along the Great Ocean Road to try and uncover evidence.

New radio transmitting technology is tracking every move of a captive group of orange-bellied parrots released in Victoria, in the hope it will help wild birds survive winter and reach the summer breeding season.

The word “Viking” conjures images of big burly men who wore helmets with horns and travelled the seas stealing land and fighting in violent wars. But what if that was all a lie?

The number of homeless people in Australia jumped by 14 per cent in the five years to 2016, according to census data which also reveals a “significant” increase in older women on the streets and a growing group living in overcrowded accommodation.

Homicide detectives charge a man with murder over the death of a woman at a Kyneton property in central Victoria.

Police believe a gang of youths from Melbourne's outer west may be responsible for trashing an Airbnb property in Werribee during an out of control party, after three other properties were damaged this month.

Police believe a gang of youths from Melbourne’s outer west may be responsible for trashing an Airbnb property in Werribee during an out of control party, after three other properties were damaged this month.

Residents of the mostly sleepy coastal town of Queenscliff on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula must work out how to manage an influx of new residents, as the shire next door prepares to reap the financial benefits.

Stroke patients could face a greater chance of a full recovery with a new ambulance that “moves the hospital to the patient” to be trialled in Victoria.

It’s been more than a year since talks began between the Victorian Government and the state’s Aboriginal people about a treaty. So where are they at and where to from here?

Aboriginal people in Victoria are one step closer to self-determination, after the State Government transferred 470 properties from the Department of Housing into the hands of Aboriginal Housing Victoria.