Victoria wants to build 80,000 new homes on average every year until 2034,but grim construction figures show the state is already falling behind.
Firefighters have saved lives and towns across Victoria,but the race is now on to rescue wildlife hit hard in burnt forests,including vulnerable koalas.
A new report into Strathbogie Shire’s woes highlights evidence that some councillors were regularly not reading their meeting papers and were “sometimes unwilling to perform the role of councillor”.
Significant projects across a large part of Victoria are facing months-long delays in the wake of the Bunurong Land Council collapse.
Heated debates over the Israel-Hamas war have increased tensions within some Victorian councils,with bans on a call for a ceasefire,backflips over a solidarity motion and even death threats.
A 72-year-old widow suffered “a catalogue of misfortune and mistakes” after building a structure specifically designed to house her son’s dialysis machine,the Ombudsman has found.
Victorians will pay six-figure salaries for specially appointed Commonwealth Games directors at local councils even though the Games have been cancelled.
Angry library supporters chanted ‘vote them out’ from the public gallery after councillors approved the 2023-24 budget,which they say will lead to reduced library hours.
Almost 170 Victorian bank branches have closed in the past two and half years. But communities from the city to the regions keep fighting to retain them,some scoring unlikely victories.
The sister and mother of Rick Devlin say he may still be alive if the scandal-plagued Moira Council had addressed its workplace culture issues.
From a missing stadium and a levee that never came to toxic waste,residents of Moira Shire had plenty of reasons to be disappointed in their council.