Charmaine Manuel

North-east Victorian residents express their anger about possible hospital service mergers as discussions about the future of the state's healthcare system intensify.

Two Victorian jails, including the notorious Port Phillip Prison, are set to close with a new prison opening near Geelong.

More than 20 regional Victorian health services have been told their budgets will be slashed by up to 30 per cent in the coming financial year, the ABC understands.

A Papuan who fled his home country because of tribal fighting says he is desperate to hear from family members whose village was in the path of a deadly landslide. 

Former churches are being given a new lease on life as homes and holiday accommodation, as places of worship close their doors and are sold.

A group of young Rotary volunteers stranded on the Vanuatu island of Tanna will return home in style after P&O cruises offers to pick them up in Port Vila. 

Air Vanuatu's collapse has left teenage volunteers stranded on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. Members of an Albury-based Rotary club were running health clinics on the island and paid thousands for their initial tickets, but now face additional expenses of $3,000 per person to get the group home.

The accused, who police say was known to the victim, faces multiple assault charges in Shepparton Magistrates' Court over the death of Ms Bates, whose body was discovered in her Cobram home on Tuesday.

Tributes have poured in for Emma Bates, 49, who was found dead in a home in the regional Victorian town of Cobram on Tuesday.   

The world champion snowboarder died in 2020 in a spearfishing accident at the age of 32. His family and partner hope a stadium named in his honour will keep his spirit alive in his hometown.

Noah Souvatzis has been remembered at a coronial inquest in Melbourne this week as a beautiful, gentle boy who loved cuddles, lived for The Wiggles and never got his "chance at life".

A four-day coronial inquiry into the deaths of four pilots near Mangalore comes to a close, after hearing victims' family members are "still trying to find the strength to continue".

Hamida Samar was working at Afghanistan's Ministry of National Defence when the Taliban approached the gates of Kabul in 2021. She escaped via Pakistan, and is now making a new life in regional Victoria.

Months after the Delta variant ravaged India's capital, the city's residents are taking refuge indoors once more. This time, they're protecting themselves from the city's toxic air.

New Caledonians will have their say on whether they want independence from France with the third and final referendum today — only this time, pro-independence supporters aren't planning to show up.

After a difficult year, Australia's Hindu community is preparing to observe Diwali, the "festival of lights" that celebrates new beginnings and the triumph of light over darkness.