More than 76,000 calls to Kids Helpline from children desperately seeking mental health support during the pandemic went unanswered.

Severe staff shortages have been blamed for creating a “bottleneck” of ambulances at three of Melbourne’s busiest emergency departments.

Almost one Victorian child a week has been slapped with a fine of up to $80 by police for not wearing a mask in public, the Herald Sun can reveal.

A hero is only as good as his villain, but Djokovic is the villain running out of heroes.

Victorians are waiting longer for elective surgery and in emergency departments at major hospitals, while an increasing number of triple-0 calls are taking longer to ­answer.

Parents and councillors are calling for a youth worker to be sacked after she ordered year 11 boys to stand up in class and labelled them “oppressors” for being white, male and Christian.

The principal of Prahran High School says he is treating complaints about a teacher who praised Hamas at a pro-Palestine rally with the “utmost seriousness”.

The council at the centre of the “slug-gate’’ saga has been ordered to hand over camera footage it has been fighting to keep secret. After a nine-month Freedom of Information battle, Greater Danden...

A woman who waited five minutes for her call to be connected to paramedics while she was bleeding says the triple-0 delays are unacceptable and should be urgently addressed by the state government.

A man from fire-ravaged Mallacoota is being hailed a hero for putting his life on the line to rescue injured koalas.

A woman has been left “shaken” after she was randomly attacked by a man who appeared to be drug-affected metres from Richmond’s controversial injecting room.

Shocking footage has emerged of a man overdosing in a multi-level carpark known to locals as a “drug den” just metres from North Richmond’s controversial injecting room.

If you are struggling to pay your council rates, you are entitled to be outraged.

The state government was “not satisfied” with former top cop Ken Lay’s findings for a crucial report into injecting rooms and asked him to do it again, the Herald Sun can reveal.

Police and ambulance triple-0 call-outs to the street of Melbourne’s only injecting room have more than doubled since the North Richmond facility opened in 2018.

The state government is hiring a $170,000 policy adviser for Melbourne’s second injecting room despite not even having a report it had commissioned into the controversial facility.

A Berwick retailer has vowed to fight an almost $10,000 fine in court after he reopened his shop during stage four restrictions.

Leading experts warn Nine's Married At First Sight has gone too far and will lead contestants to suffer severe trauma and long-term emotional issues. 

Servo and retail giant 7-Eleven has pulled raunchy magazines from its shelves after a slew of complaints from a women’s rights advocacy group.

Traders in Melbourne’s CBD need immediate answers on when the long-awaited report into safe injecting rooms by former top cop Ken Lay will be released.

GAMERS are not anti-social, maladjusted nerds who dwell in basements in the eerie glow of their computer screens.

Fake Covid-19 vaccine passports are being sold illegally online by cyber criminals for thousands of dollars.

The number of triple-zero call takers should be immediately doubled, the head of Victoria’s ambulance union says, amid deadly delays in answering pleas for help.