Victoria

An election pledge by Victoria's opposition to recruit thousands of police officers promises to fill vacancies and respond to increasing crime.

Marcus Harris has opened another campaign in England with a fine hundred for Lancashire as Australian players thrived in the county championship.

Two major cities are becoming more unaffordable faster than other capitals, as they build fewer homes relative to population growth than Sydney and Melbourne.

The tall alpine ash forests in Australia’s high country have lived in a delicate relationship with fire for tens of thousands of years.

Reduced public holiday services and school holidays heighten pressure on network, leading to overcrowding

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Dianne Thompson and Lois Kirk tell Victoria police in letter ‘we did not expect to feel invisible’ after Neal Thompson’s death

Gellung Warl candidates, Lidia Thorpe’s son among them, are hoping to bring their lived experience to ‘a new era’ of politics in the state

Man and woman released pending further enquiries after arrests at separate properties in state’s north-east on Saturday morning

When a commercial trawler sank off Victoria with four crew members needing rescuing, police became suspicious about an alleged drug trafficking operation.