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A high fire-danger rating covers most of the state, except for the Wimmera, where the risk is extreme and the weeks-long Grampians fires burns on.

Victoria’s private schools argue the state payroll tax has caused a hit to their bottom lines and is making the cost of educating students more expensive.

The western suburbs are changing and growing. Whoever can meet the region’s needs and expectations of services and infrastructure is likely to reap huge rewards.

Readers discuss The Age’s series on the infrastructure issues in the booming, sprawling western suburbs of Melbourne,

Two different tragedies involving children have rocked separate small communities in regional Victoria within 24 hours.

Police say the child’s body was located in the Mitchell River near a campground between Dargo and Bairnsdale on Friday afternoon.

The mercury will remain high around the clock, with an overnight low of 24 degrees forecast on Sunday. 

Between 2010 and 2024, almost 4000 people were killed on Victorian roads. Use our interactive tools to learn how many road deaths occurred in your suburb.