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A $37 million state budget boost includes new tools for teachers to support students falling behind in maths.

The split in the Coalition has sparked comment from readers.

The government hopes slowing down vehicles as they approach Montague Street bridge in South Melbourne will allow drivers more time to realise they won’t fit underneath.    

An internet page listing a death cap mushroom sighting was accessed on a device connected to Erin Patterson, a court has heard.

After police arrived at his regional Victorian home last year, Phillip Reidy covertly consumed one of the deadliest poisons in the world, infamously used in the Jonestown Massacre.

The deteriorating World Heritage-listed site will receive much-needed repairs, but the budget promise is well short of the $50m estimate for a full restoration.

Thongs one day to thermals the next, May is breaking weather records across the state and putting Melburnians’ wardrobes to the test.

Mornington Peninsula councillors said locals preferred groomed beaches, without unsightly and smelly seaweed, and voted to bring back mechanical raking over hand-cleaning of the bay’s beaches.