The Latest Breaking News from Victoria

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Drowning deaths in Australian waters are at a 10-year high. A small community on Victoria's Surf Coast believes an ocean skills centre to create a generation of qualified lifesavers could be the answer to bringing that figure down.

Residents in an outback town will spend New Year's Eve worried about flooding as Top End communities return home a week after a rare inundation.

A state health department has issued a warning about a disease responsible for several deaths in the UK over the last couple of months.

A Victorian government minister says the Australian Open is going nowhere, after tournament boss Craig Tiley said Melbourne risked losing the grand slam event.

State-funded PCR testing centres will stop operating in Victoria today, but free RATs will be offered at community centres.

Victoria's emergency services are sounding the alarm about illegal fireworks heading into the New Year, warning they can land people in hospital or prison.

Sage O’Donnell, from Victoria, is at least the fourth Australian to die in the war in Ukraine.

Large parts of the country are sweltering through high temperatures for the first time this summer, with South Australia experiencing what is expected to be its hottest day since January 2021.

A five-year-old girl dies in a lake in Victoria's north, bringing the total number of water-related deaths across the state to four in three days.

During the early stages of the pandemic we experienced negative net overseas migration for the first time since World War II in 2020/21.