'Fading birth art' leaves public patients forced into caesarean delivery

The ancient practice of delivering babies bottom first is a “dying art” in Victoria’s hospitals and could cease entirely because younger doctors no longer have experience in this kind of birth.

Students from independent schools were overrepresented among top VCE performers.

More than 13,000 students earned a top score of 40 or above. Search our interactive VCE honour roll by name, school or subject.

Find out how many 40+ scores your school attained and in which subjects.

It’s the day year 12 students have been waiting for – the day they get their long-awaited VCE results and ATARs. Follow the news live.

Readers have reacted strongly to a local council’s removal of a volunteer’s photo from its newsletter.

For hours, investigators scoured the yard of his suburban home using specialised ground-penetrating machines before digging up a section of the lawn near the house’s back door.

Three Court of Appeal judges have detailed the reasons why the former airline pilot has had his murder conviction quashed.

Three Court of Appeal judges have detailed the reasons why the former airline pilot has had his murder conviction quashed.

Three Court of Appeal judges found elements of the trial had caused Lynn to suffer a serious miscarriage of justice. Here’s what happens next.

Three Court of Appeal judges found elements of the trial had caused Lynn to suffer a serious miscarriage of justice. Here’s what happens next.

Twins Ari and Alexi Psaltapolous, with twin ATARs, were among the students at Richmond High celebrating their VCE results.

Tom Silvagni, the son of Stephen Silvagni and his TV presenter wife, Jo, can now be named as the man convicted of raping a woman twice in the family’s home.

A man has been charged after police swooped on a Port Melbourne business on Wednesday.

The alleged killer of missing camper Carol Clay didn’t want to die in jail. Three Court of Appeal judges have now ruled on his appeal.

The killer of missing camper Carol Clay didn’t want to die in jail. Three Court of Appeal judges have now ruled on his appeal.

It’s the day year 12 students have been waiting for – the day they will get their long-awaited VCE results and ATARs. Follow the news live.

It’s the day year 12 students have been waiting for – the day they will get their long-awaited VCE results and ATARs. Follow the news live.

The wait ends today for more than 65,500 VCE students who will receive their results.

The wait ends today for more than 65,500 VCE students who will receive their results.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a man was allegedly stabbed to death in Melbourne’s inner north-west on Sunday.

The disclosures of Anika Wells’s expenses has drawn varied responses from readers.

A Hampton teenager, who won an award for her volunteering work, was removed from the council magazine following complaints from the public.

Investors poured $75 million into Jason Sourasis’ dream to build a sporting hub in the west, but a total collapse is looming.

Investors poured $75 million into Jason Sourasis’ dream to build a sporting hub in the west, but a total collapse is looming.

Remains have been found buried at a property in Melbourne’s north-west.

Details of the killing of two children are revealed for the first time as police say left hands are being severed in youth gang violence.

Barassi passed away at her St Kilda home, “as she wished”, her family announced.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after a man was allegedly stabbed to death in Melbourne’s inner north-west on Sunday.

Shortly after her catastrophic freebirth, paramedics found an “agitated” Stacey Warnecke lying on the floor next to her birthing pool in a small, dark room, a court has heard.