In these parts, apples in December are a gas.

During his time in prison, a notebook has been found in the murderer's cell, in which he wrote he would love to kill his own mother.

Entering her fifth year as Premier having narrowly survived an ICAC scandal, Gladys Berejiklian says she has no intention of leaving the top job during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Darren Wick will serve nine months in community detention after pleading guilty to driving while more than four times the legal blood alcohol limit in October.

They are also 10 times more likely than non-indigenous children to be on a community-based supervision program in Victoria, new research shows.

The driver of a white van tried to flee police who had their weapons drawn on him after he failed to stop in Bankstown.

Three guns, ammunition, batons, knuckledusters, a slingshot and a pair of nunchucks were allegedly found at the Logan home.

Tennis Australia has conceded Craig Tiley spoke in error when he said the Victorian government would be subsidising hotel quarantine for Australian Open participants.

A magistrate has ruled the seriousness of alleged offending around the death of a seven-year-old boy means the case should be heard by a County Court judge.

Keen travellers have snapped up 40,000 regional travel vouchers issued by the Victorian government within half an hour of them being released.

Scott Douglas Bartkowski responded and went to meet the fictitious mother and daughter near the Sofitel Hotel on the Gold Coast.

Two chefs will grow all their own food, from yabbies to honey, for three months as they take up residence in a $650,000 privately funded eco home at Federation Square.

The 15-year-old's body was pulled from the water at Kentlyn Basin along the Georges River near Campbelltown just after 5pm.

Victorians have been warned to stay safe over the Australia Day long weekend as temperatures soar and the state marks its worst summer drowning toll on record.

The first time the modem blew, Cathy Hamilton took her modem from home to work - much to the annoyance of her family. Another time, she borrowed a friend's.

Newly digitised police records lay out the paper trails of sightings, and the questions they sparked, spanning decades and thousands of kilometres across the state.

Dozens of refugees who have detained for more than a year in Melbourne hotels and a detention centre have been granted temporary bridging visas by the federal government.

A class action is being launched against Queensland's two state-owned power companies for alleged price gouging practices on behalf of 47,000 households and businesses.

A police officer pulled the knife from the man's chest and handcuffed him before paramedics arrived.

John Clare wrote extensively on jazz for the Herald.

Sculptures by the Sea is on for another year after a funding windfall means it can showcase everyone from a big international headliner to one energetic local.

Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie sent the Twittersphere into overdrive on Tuesday after she was photographed in a regional Victorian hardware store alongside an unidentified male.

Weijie He will appear before a Sydney court charged with murder of his 19-year-old girlfriend Liqun Pan at an apartment complex in Sydney's south last year.

Sometimes the victim, sometimes the monster, Shelley was a frequent presence in horror movies in the 1950s and ’60s.

Australian Open organisers say some players may have "brushed off" advice that 14-day hard quarantine was on the table if they were close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases.

One hundred UooUoos, an imaginary cross between a wombat and a dugong, have alighted on beaches, parks, laneways and landmarks across Melbourne and Geelong.

NSW has recorded no new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian flagged restrictions will likely be eased next week.

Emergency services were called to a home in Katoomba at 10am following reports of a concern for welfare.

Greater Brisbane is "100 per cent" on track to see restrictions on social gatherings and rules on wearing masks lift on Friday, the Premier says.

Find out which of WA’s most expensive and top-rating secondary schools have frozen their annual tuition fees and the schools that have even decreased them to help families experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. Spoiler: they still cost as...

After death by a thousand cuts for Perth's black cockatoo habitats, one final cut promises to be devastating; and the time to soften the blow is running out.

The graveyard visitor left behind an item of the victim's underwear three-and-a-half years after she vanished off the streets of Claremont.

The average independent school fee hike dropped from 3 per cent to 1.74 per cent in 2021, as schools tried to provide relief to families and keep enrolments amid the pandemic.

Local tourism operators have been doing it tough and now face another 12 months of hardship.

Overseas expats who send their children to boarding school in Australia are facing an agonising choice over whether to make them do hotel quarantine.

I am confused about the objective of the vaccination program, if it ever gets started.

Victorian private schools increased fees for local year 12 students by an average 0.4 per cent this year – well below the national average.

Infrastructure Victoria has called on the state government to intervene to stop road congestion and crowding on public transport that could hinder social distancing.

Now is the perfect chance to recognise First Nations people and our long and strong contribution to this nation. Only then will reconciliation be possible.

Alan Neuss is one of many Victorians who discovered through commercial DNA testing that his biological father was not who he grew up believing he was.

A small number of companies such as Solomon Lew's Premier Investments have received $40m in taxpayer subsidies while paying large bonuses and dividends to top executives.

A series of television interviews featuring Jana Wendt will not go ahead as planned.

This January will be my family’s 18th Australia Day, and I now call Australia home.

The Victorian government has outsourced a critical part of its Australian Open quarantine system to an agency involved in the St Basil’s nursing home disaster.

Manufacturing and trial delays have meant Australia’s third vaccine has slipped off the radar – but early trial data raises hopes it could offer strong protection against and even halt the virus' spread.

The Victorian government agency in charge of the shuttered Central Pier at Docklands knew for almost a year that the 100-year-old structure was at "extreme" risk of collapse.

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Scott Morrison will host a remote meeting of the national cabinet from Brisbane on Friday.

Ibises did not suffer during pandemic lockdowns because they never relied on humans for their main source of food, an expert says.

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