The Victorian Government said ongoing conflict between councillors had reduced the respect for, and standing of, the council in the community.

As congregations dwindle in small country towns, priests and ministers are taking to the road to service multiple small communities.

More than 60 people search for missing Melbourne man Jeremy Boyden and his dog, Rocky, who were last seen on a road in Victoria's high country three days ago.

The search for missing hiker Jeremy Boyden and his dog Rocky enters its fourth day, as rescue teams focus on searching the large network of alpine huts scattered across Victoria's high country amid worsening weather.

The Victorian Government has announced it will protect 4,000 hectares of farm land from mining exploration in the state's east in an area near a controversial mining proposal.

For the first time, dairy farmers in the Bega Valley could have the opportunity to supply the fresh milk market as Lactalis and Saputo look to secure new suppliers.

It was spruiked as Victoria's own Gold Coast, but people who bought land along Ninety Mile Beach in the 1950s could never build on their blocks.

Jesse Reid reached speeds of up to 200kph before he veered onto the wrong side on the road and crashed into a veteran policeman's motorcycle.

A new food truck is empowering disadvantaged Gippsland families to choose their own fresh produce and is also allowing for more efficient delivery.

Police, SES, and a number of friends and family are searching for a young woman and man who have not returned from a camping trip to Walhalla last Friday.

Emergency services are continuing to search for a young man and woman who went missing in eastern Victoria almost a week ago.

Police find the bodies of Caleb Forbes and Shannon Lowden in their car, almost a week after they went missing near the Baw Baw National Park in eastern Victoria.

Australia is the last inhabited continent on Earth that is free of the varroa mite, a parasite which has crippled honey bees everywhere it has taken hold. The threat is real but our beekeepers are preparing to meet it head on.

Latrobe Regional Hospital in Victoria's Gippsland has been ordered to pay more than $31,000 to a former security guard who was sacked last year.

A teenager from Gippsland in Victoria has written an equation that has been published in a national academic journal a major achievement for one so young.

While many dairy farmers in northern Victoria are downsizing and selling up due to drought and the cost of water, in South Gippsland they are investing in their businesses.

The operators of Hazelwood Power Station should have been better prepared for a blaze in its open-cut brown coal mine that burned for 45 days five years ago, a court hears.

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Farmers struggling in the driest parts of Victoria will have access to an extra $31m in relief funds, days after the Federal Government announced an extension in drought support.

Pusparani Kumaravel has shaved her head after waiting six years for a visa. She feels like it's the only way she can have some control of her life.

Resident Michelle Gatt says the smoke and falling ash from the 45-day fire in the Hazelwood coal mine left her constantly coughing and without a voice.

Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto was retained by at least one investor to help recover money from the messy collapse of a major property developer that left investors owed millions of dollars, according to court documents.

A proposal to build a lead battery smelter in the Latrobe Valley has sparked health concerns among the local community. The nearest house is little more than a kilometre from the site, as is a school.

A report on the workplace culture at a major hospital in Victoria uncovers limited supervision of junior mental health staff, as well as allegations of bullying and sexual harassment.

Albert H. Fox, who restored and rebuilt close to 6,000 pianos and tuned several thousand more, has now restored a famous 145-year-old Pleyel piano.

In true Australian style a jubilant Jack Miller celebrates the first podium finish from a local rider on Phillip Island in seven years by performing a shoey.

The Victorian Government announces an immediate ban on all old growth logging and the phasing out of native timber logging in a transition plan that will cost $120 million over the next ten years.

UK based Victrex has announced a multimillion euro investment in Bond High Performance 3D Technology.

A group of researchers from the Harvard University Wyss Institute and the Massachusets Institute of Technology Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or MIT CSAIL have developed a robot gripper that uses a 3D printed origami structure to lift up to 100 times its own weight.

Nanofabrica, an Israel-based developer of precision additve manufacturing technologies, has announced the commercial launch of its micro-level resolution AM technology.

Saudi Arabia's Elite for Construction & Development Company has purchased what has been described as the world's largest 3D construction printer from Danish firm Cobod International.

Markforged, a Watertown, MA-based manufacturer of industrial 3D printers, closed an $82m Series D round of funding.

Researchers at the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab have created Aguahoja, a collection of natural artifacts that were digitally designed and robotically fabricated from the molecular components found in trees, insect exoskeletons, apples and bones.

Building on the success of its Aceo Open Print Lab in Burghausen, Germany, Wacker Chemie A.G. has opened its first United States-based rubber silicone 3D printing lab.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used fine-scale 3D bioprinting to grow cells that are highly uniform in shape and size, and potentially with certain functions.

Glow Box is a 3D printed hybrid object which imbues life into the object by displaying a real-time visualization of a neural network as it works to solve problems.

A team of engineers at Tufts University has developed a series of 3D printed metamaterials with unique microwave or optical properties.

Fashion brand COS has teamed up with French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani to present a large-scale 3D printed architectural installation made from renewable bioplastic bricks at this year's Milan design week.

The University of South Australia is using a blend of icing sugar, chicken stock and flexible resin to create realistic foot ulcers as part of a world-first podiatric training initiative.

Allegations of treachery and collusion have dominated Question Time in Parliament, as the Government's citizenship crisis deepens. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce revealed yesterday he was a dual New Zealand citizen, but is arguing he should retain his ministerial duties and vote, while the High Court makes a ruling. Mr Joyce's citizenship status emerged in the same week a New Zealand Labour MP asked about the issue, and the Government is now accusing the Opposition of trying to use a foreign parliament to bring down the Government.

As Labor continues to hammer the Turnbull Government over its deepening dual-citizenship drama, the Prime Minister has sought to shift the focus to a local council in Melbourne. Malcolm Turnbull has described Yarra Council's move to change the date of Australia Day celebrations as deeply disappointing and an attack on Australia Day. And the Government has announced the Melbourne local authority will be stripped of its power to hold any citizenship ceremonies as a result.

There are fears some people living in remote communities and in Indigenous town camps may not be able to vote in the same sex marriage postal ballot. As the cut-off date to register with the Australian Electoral Commission draws closer, it's still not clear how the Australian Bureau of Statistics will capture everyone's vote, as many in remote communities don't have a postal address.

A group of friends with disabilities is about to undertake a cycling adventure to challenge the misconceptions about people with disabilities. They're going to ride from Australia's lowest point at Lake Eyre to the highest point Mt Kosciuszko. Two of them will peddle the 2000 kilometres together on a tandem trike.

Consumer demand for coconuts is booming and world supply is struggling to keep up, so an industry awaits as Australia imports nearly all the coconut it consumes.