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Among the alleged offenders were two 13-year-old boys who have been charged with a range of offences.

The Longwood bushfire that tore through central Victoria last week was unstoppable at times and experts are warning of more to come.

Nurses, teachers and builders across Australia are gaining employment and side-stepping training requirements thanks to a back door agreement with New Zealand.

The arrest in Iraq of kingpin Kazem Hamad is positive news but law enforcement and governments will need to be constantly vigilant.

The fires that savaged the Victorian towns of Natimuk, Harcourt and Streatham were unlike any the town had seen before, victims and firefighters said.

Readers respond to floods and fires, hazard-reduction burns and turf wars.

Holidaymakers and local leaders have questioned why authorities did not do more to raise the alarm before a “wall of water” swept through the Surf Coast.

The senior constable who was working in Victoria’s western region will fight three sex-offence allegations at a contested hearing.

A sinkhole that appeared at a sports oval in Heidelberg last week was the result of an error by a North East Link Project tunnelling crew, and could have been avoided. 

The males, including a 13-year-old, allegedly used machetes in the pre-dawn attack at Hampton Park.

Victoria Police officers in the Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) in Williamstown coordinated five aviation assets in the air at once in response to flash flooding along the Great Ocean Road on January 15, 2026.

Drought settled on Victoria during World War II. Then came calamitous fires and finally, the Big Flood, stranding a little family. No one was about to let them drown.

Three teenage boys, including a 13-year-old, have been arrested after allegedly using machetes in the attack.