More Victorian students than ever are finishing year 12, but many are looking for alternative pathways.

From the Seine to the Thames, there’s a movement to make urban rivers swimmable. Could the Yarra River join those ranks?

In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.

A home-based daycare worker kept her Working with Children Check after her husband was arrested for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl who was left unsupervised in their house.

A seven-year promise to build small hospitals across Greater Melbourne is one step closer to being fulfilled, but questions remain for residents in Pakenham and Point Cook.

Australia is issuing a record number of working holiday visas, with UK backpackers taking advantage of Morrison-era rule changes.

The construction union is finally saying goodbye to some prominent figures but much more is needed to clean up the Big Build.

“I’ll be cheering for him,” the US president said of the man he had previously branded a communist lunatic, completing his backflip on the Muslim democratic socialist mayor-elect.

Rain and soaring sheep prices are giving some farmers cause for cautious optimism after two dry years.

The CSIRO this week announced job cuts of up to 350 staff. But a former executive says the agency’s management squandering a huge short-term government funding boost.

Leaked recordings reveal the church’s leadership swinging back at the prime minister labelling it a cult and how it plans to deal with a tax office probe.

As she lands in Melbourne to kick off a national speaking tour, Presley reveals the secret to her success.

The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.

Legislation expected to be tabled next week includes huge fines for failing to hit local content quotas.

The exhibition will include the Gatting ball, the stump from Warne’s balcony dance at Trent Bridge, and his famous floppy hat.

Two further arrests have come after neo-Nazi leader Joel Davis was charged on Thursday with allegedly harassing independent MP Allegra Spender.

Anthony Albanese had kept Project Georgia a tightly held secret in the hope of forcing the opposition to make a mistake. As Niki Savva writes in an exclusive extract, the tactic succeeded beyond...

In the headlights of his black sedan, drunk antiques salesman Paul Flegel stood armed with a semi-automatic pistol in Barry Butler’s driveway.

The US president’s 28-point proposal has been sent to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of expected talks. It would halve the nation’s army and cede territory to Russia.