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One house and six sheds have been lost in a fire started by farm machinery at Goomalibee, near north-east Victorian town Benalla.

A teenage boy and a 51-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea have been identified as victims of a fatal crash in Northern Victoria. 

The debate around the failed Bendigo Writers Festival, which will not run next year, again embroils sponsor La Trobe University in controversy amid calls for more transparency and accountability.

Four passengers in a van, who are yet to be formally identified, died at the scene, north of Shepparton in Victoria. Five injured people, including three children and the male driver, were taken to various hospitals.

A judge says the offending of a man found guilty of kidnapping a Victorian 19-year-old, who was later murdered, was "spontaneous" and "born of panic".

A Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry report finds youth career support is "severely lacking" as students fear AI is threatening white-collar industries.

The Bureau of Meteorology has updated the rain radar, temperature information and warning displays on its new website in response to public feedback.

Mixed farming, which involves growing crops and rearing livestock, used to be standard practice in Australia, but there are almost 100 million fewer sheep in Australia than there were 35 years ago.

Researchers in Victoria are using taste aversion conditioning to stop foxes eating native turtle eggs.

Brodie Taylor has changed the game of netball by overturning disability preconceptions to become the first person in a wheelchair to attain national netball umpiring accreditation.

A mayor in southern NSW says removing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from council meeting chambers will "promote civic neutrality".

Backpackers and PALM workers in Victoria and Queensland are looking for new jobs following the shock shutdown of Dicky Bill Australia.

David Graham Berry was set to face trial over a hit and run in northern Victoria, but has instead pleaded guilty at a hearing in Shepparton.

Bridal parties are employing online witches and burying sausages, hoping the superstitious acts will ward off bad weather.

A Coroner has determined that Niels Gunther Becker, 39, who went missing at Mount Buller in 2019 is dead but that no third party was involved.

Australia is the land of the parrot — few places in the world have such a dazzling array of colourful and clever members of the psittacine family.

Jujubes are a relatively unknown fruit for most Australians, but the sweet fruit has strong domestic demand for those looking for a taste of home.

A man charged over the alleged theft of a car from a supermarket car park which had a toddler inside has faced court. 

Victorian police have charged a man over the theft of a vehicle that had a sleeping toddler inside.

Victoria police have released footage of a car thief who put a 15-month-old boy in a box in a parking lot before driving away.