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Police say a man broke into an Ararat church property, woke the priest and demanded he open the safe. 

Wombat joeys prance around Josh Neille's living room and young wallabies slide around on floorboards learning to use their long limbs. It's a sight now familiar to millions of people online.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has labelled alleged behaviour by the state's construction union as "thuggish and appalling".

Major Australian nurseries, including retail giant Bunnings, are selling plants listed by governments and their own industry body as invasive weeds.

As more eco-conscious fashionistas move away from fast fashion, a new trade deal with India has created more market potential for Australia's sustainable cotton and wool industry.

Halls Gap residents and businesses are grappling with shock rises in insurance premiums of up to 500 per cent while dealing with the fallout of bushfires.

Mildura Digital Television, which is owned by SevenWest Media and WIN, has shut down the Channel 10 signal in the Sunraysia region because it did "not make commercial sense" to keep it going.

Few things make Tegan Warren as upset as the idea of a goldfish about to be flushed down the toilet.

A new report from a regional Victorian women's health organisation reveals a dire lack of access to sexual health and reproductive services in the state's west. 

Can you imagine having nowhere to buy lunch? Almost a year after opening its doors, the local cafe in the Mallee town of Beulah has closed its doors, and farmers and tourists have to look elsewhere for a bite to eat. 

A property lecturer says while the changes could lead to a more equitable quality of life, they also may lead to investors choosing to swap from long-term leases to short-term accommodation.

The small hamlet of Warrack in the Pyrenees made national headlines last year when more than a dozen of the quirky sculptures appeared on local roadsides.

Volunteer firefighters from dozens of brigades in north central Victoria will refuse to fight fires at properties hosting renewable energy plants or transmission lines.

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 Melbourne couple had just moved to the small border town of Apsley to take over the town's pub when a car crashed through their bar. After extensive repairs, the inn reopened for the long weekend.

A new industry is selling its services in Australia — weather forecasting using artificial intelligence and offering precise, hour-by-hour forecasts for areas as small as a football field.

Experts say long-term strategies, including training local workforce, are needed to provide more palliative support care in regional Australian.

The tiny western Victorian town of Minyip could soon host one of the world's largest rare earth mines after a multi-million dollar funding injection from a US uranium giant.

Once a rare sight in a shearing shed, women are now working alongside men in one of the toughest jobs in the country. Here's why that's very good news for the industry. 

In the middle of the bush near the Victorian Mallee is the ghost town of Pella, which was founded as a German colony by Lutherans when the first Europeans arrived in the area. Surrounded by paddocks and scrubland, the town’s sandstone church houses a humongous 19th Century pipe organ, which provides the visitors a surreal experience of hearing cathedral music in the middle of nowhere.