While the exact cause of the system fault is unconfirmed, astronomers have warned of increased solar storms in the next days and weeks, as an active part of the sun rotates into view.

The Coalition’s break-up has been downgraded to a break after just 48 hours. If the Liberals and Nationals reunite, they have Aunty to thank.

Simon Patterson was a “deadbeat” father, and Don and Gail Patterson were “a lost cause”, a Facebook account allegedly linked to Erin Patterson told friends a year before a fatal lunch that claimed the lives of her parents-in-law, a court has been told. Read more:

Two Israeli embassy workers shot dead outside Jewish museum in Washington DC.

Breaking: CFMEU boss Zach Smith ‘steps back’ from national leadership.

Investigators probe Ben Roberts-Smith over more murders and video drinking from dead man’s prosthetic limb.

The school, transport and health projects being delayed in your area.

Breaking: Ange Postecoglou makes history as Spurs win Europa League title.

Almost one third of the 518 projects funded in last year’s state budget are now behind schedule, including more than two dozen in education.

The tension between Sussan Ley and the Nationals has been building for nearly a quarter of a century. This week it boiled over.

After police arrived at his regional Victorian home last year, Phillip Reidy covertly consumed one of the deadliest poisons in the world, infamously used in the Jonestown Massacre.

A post about a death cap mushroom sighting was accessed on a computer seized from Erin Patterson’s home, a court has heard. Read more:

The former tennis player confirmed her father died on Friday.

The government hopes slowing down vehicles as they approach Montague Street bridge in South Melbourne will allow drivers more time to realise they won’t fit underneath.

‘It got pretty foul’: Stink over seaweed ends cleaning peninsula beaches by hand.

Cost of food, education and power is spiralling in Victoria. This graph proves it.

Former PM John Howard has damned the Coalition’s split as a “stupid move” that threatens to deepen the differences between the two parties.

Big prison spend, but less for police in crime crackdown.

Breaking: RBA cuts rates for second time in three months.

The trouble-plagued roll-out of the new myki ticketing system to allow travellers to tap on with bank cards and smartphones has suffered a $136.7 million cost blow-out and is delayed by up to 18 months.