Rhiannon Stevens

6 News anchor Leo Puglisi is not your average 17-year-old

The long hair and sparkly spandex of professional wrestling might seem a long way from the hallowed halls of the Capitol, but perhaps they have more in common than you'd think.

When Russia's invasion of Ukraine stymied his travel plans, photographer Carl De Keyzer decided to take a virtual trip instead, creating a series of AI-generated images. He was unprepared for the consequences.

In a year when many Australian music festivals have announced they're folding or postponed, Meredith Music Festival will nurture its familiar rituals like the brass band once again.

Bedridden with rheumatic fever in the 1940s, and having already lost his father to the disease, Ian Braybrook says he owes his life to the big-hearted doctor who treated his family without charge.

Some of Victoria's most spectacular grasslands exist on nondescript roadsides in the heart of the state's western sheep country. Scientists say too many species in the endangered ecosystem face extinction. 

The critically endangered Mount Cole grevillea has re-emerged after recent Victorian bushfires, however conservationists are worried it won't survive the wait for three promised national parks to materialise.

When three women died — allegedly at the hands of men — in the regional town of Ballarat, the outpouring of anger that followed prompted more people to seek help.

Beloved native swans are particularly susceptible to a deadly strain of bird flu, according to scientists who fear for native birds if the virus hits Australian shores.

Mum Renea Johnson wants to give others the shopping experience that her trans daughter didn't have. So she opened an inclusive clothing store in regional Victoria.