Nicole Mills

Victoria’s Otways district accounts for just 4 per cent of Victoria’s land mass but holds 20 per cent of the state’s bushfire risk. Here’s how the team charged with saving lives during bushfire season decides where to conduct planned burns.

Vicki Perrett’s home sits just 20 centimetres above sea level and as she watches the foreshore across the road get slowly eroded, she knows her home may not be there forever.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says “far too many people” are going to work while sick, instead of getting tested and staying home while waiting for a result, labelling it “the biggest driver” of coronavirus transmission in the state.

A second free-range egg farm in the Golden Plains Shire, west of Melbourne, has tested positive to avian influenza, also known as bird flu, with both properties now subject to bird culls and strict quarantine measures.

About 45,000 tonnes of carbon fibre ends up in landfill each year but a team of aerospace engineers and organic chemists are transforming old wind turbines and aircraft into high-performance surfboards.

Childcare workers, dentists, builders and real estate agents among those allowed to get back to work under the second step of Melbourne's restrictions roadmap.

Epidemiologists say while the 28-day benchmark for elimination is “a little bit arbitrary”, it is generally agreed to be two times the upper limit of a coronavirus incubation period. But the Government says it will wait until early December before easing restrictions further, because the virus could still be circulating.

Geelong doctor Shafiul Milky is charged with raping and indecently assaulting female patients, under the guise of performing legitimate medical procedures. WARNING: This story contains graphic content.

Viva Energy signs a memorandum of understanding with major energy and investment companies to develop plans for an LNG terminal at their Geelong oil refinery, in the hope diversification could help secure the future of the troubled refinery and its 700 employees.

An Australian-first project is underway in the regional town of Colac, which will see the two biggest employers and the water corporation come together to turn food waste and dirty water into environmentally-friendly power.