The Latest Breaking News from Victoria

In recent years, the question of what to do with our household waste has become more pressing. In 2018, China stopped accepting many types of recyclable plastic waste from Australia. Four years later, Australia’s main soft plastics recycling scheme, REDcycle, collapsed, leaving behind big stockpiles. Food scraps or non-recyclable plastics…

Well-meaning law designed to protect children prevents a basic function of investigative journalism – holding people to account

Tasty nightclub was controversially raided by Victoria police 30 years ago. How are those who were there that night marking such a dark anniversary? They’re throwing a big camp party

Police used flawed identification evidence against a suspect in the 2019 stabbing of a Melbourne teenager but deny the investigation was ‘improperly conducted’

Victoria’s chief health officer says a cooling tower in Laverton North is the probable source of illness

A poll indicates Labor is increasingly on the nose with Victorian voters under Jacinta Allan's leadership, just over two years out from the next state election.

Stone suppliers and manufacturers are on different alert levels after some faced surprise inspections after a nationwide ban took effect.

Dr George Dimitroulis, who is being sued in a Victorian court by a former patient, denies any injuries were caused by negligence or the prosthesis

A second person with Legionnaires' disease has died in Victoria, while the number of new cases appears to be decreasing

Victims of a heavy-handed police raid on a Melbourne nightclub 30 years ago reflect on how a court battle ushered change for Victoria's LGBTQI community.

Bondi residents can now access solar power from a community battery, while a wind farm that will supply power for 200,000 Victorian homes has been approved.