As a string of high-profile criminal cases are linked to methamphetamine use, new figures show cases of possession and trafficking are returning to horrific levels and experts are warning a new strategy is needed to stem the tide.
A new $1 billion plan to fix the state’s recycling woes would overhaul current processes and include the rollout of multiple bins to households — including a statewide green-waste program to lower greenhouse gases and reduce waste.
Victorians kids’ return to the classroom could be almost imminent, the Sunday Herald Sun can reveal. It comes as the AFL is also set to resume as early as June 11. Here’s which students will go back to school first.
Despite globally spending over $155 billion on stopping the illegal drug trade, a damning report says organised crime groups are running rampant and the “war on the drugs” is failing. Now experts have a radical idea to fix the problem.
Hundreds of firefighters will get pay rises of more than 8 per cent this year in a win that is set to cause tension with paramedics and police on the coronavirus front line. The move has been slammed as an outrage by the Opposition emergency services spokesman.
A team of GPs and nurses will be hitting the road in a coronavirus testing bus as the state ramps up its approach. Here’s how you can get the bus to visit your workplace.
An Australian Army veteran who claims medicinal cannabis has played a vital role in his battle against PTSD has made an emotional plea to the federal government to try and change their policy on the drug.
A family-owned catering company who claim a slug was planted on the floor of its Dandenong factory during a council inspection say they have passed on 2500 pages of “bulletproof” evidence to police. It comes as some MPs demand a parliamentary inquiry into the “very murky affair”.
The state government’s landmark deal to combine public and private hospital resources to combat coronavirus has caused confusion ahead of elective surgery waitlists reopening next week, with the potential for public patients to gain priority access to the private system.
Parents desperate for childcare — including a Melbourne mum who wants to go back to work as an ICU nurse — have been locked out of the system after the sector’s funding model changed.
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