The Latest Breaking News from Victoria

A taxi industry representative says high set fares requested by drivers outside the Australian Open are "damaging" Victoria's brand, after tennis fans were once again left stranded in the early hours of Friday morning.

Amid the growing threat of far-right extremism in Australia, Victoria recently became the first state to ban the Nazi swastika, (known as the Hakenkreuz). Publicly displaying the symbol is now a criminal offence and carries a penalty of up to $22,000, or 12 months of imprisonment.

Victoria will stop outsourcing health care across the state's women's prisons to a for-profit provider, conceding it hasn't always been up to scratch.

The latest Australian COVID-19 data on cases, hospitalisations and deaths shows the number of cases are still decreasing.

The state government will end outsourcing of health care for female prisoners to a for-profit company, admitting the current arrangement "hasn't always" fulfilled duty of care.

With fewer people using public transport and more working from home due to the COVID pandemic, public transport agencies need to do everything they can to encourage more people to use their services. An essential step is to make the ticketing and payment process as easy as possible. That means…

Mr Jingles spent up to two weeks in Victoria line tunnel – before being tempted into cat box by scent of ‘smelly fish’

Following detections in NSW and Victoria, the Murray Valley encephalitis virus has now been found in mosquitoes in five council regions along the river in South Australia.

A wildlife trust has found Wimmera reserves, in Victoria's west, is home to Australia's largest population of Eltham copper butterflies.

New details have been revealed in documents provided a committal hearing about why police allege Greg Lynn killed campers Carol Clay and Russell Hill in the Victorian High Country.

With Victorian councils introducing policies restricting who can talk to the media, what does that mean for free speech?