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Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas.

Hospital carve-up completed, new health networks unveiled

The Allan government is creating 12 new networks – each designed to service at least 200,000 people – after consulting hospitals, doctors and councils opposed to the original plan.

  • Henrietta Cook and Sumeyya Ilanbey

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Wodonga Senior Secondary College principal Vern Hilditch.

Victorian schools are losing out in the border battle for teachers

Victorian graduate teachers are the worst paid in the country, with fears a NSW pay bump could make the teacher shortage worse for regional schools.

  • Alex Crowe
A coronial inquest is examining how Kenneth Toll, 62, died following bilateral knee replacement surgery five years ago.

‘A huge hole’: Family hopes man’s death after knee surgery sparks change

Kenneth Toll was one of three patients to die after receiving bilateral knee replacement surgery from a NSW orthopaedic surgeon, a five-day inquest heard.

  • Angus Thomson
Parts of High Street in Seymour are already underwater.

Seymour told to evacuate, too late to leave for Yea as floodwaters rise

Bendigo residents are also being warned of possible flash floods as thunderstorms batter the state.

  • Alex Crowe, Broede Carmody and Caroline Schelle
Cities of the Future

Cities of the Future

In this series, The Age explores how Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga will change in the coming decades.

Almost 200 permanent weekend services will be added to V/Line’s timetable from next year.

‘Overcrowded’: Cheap train tickets a hit, but passengers forced to stand for hours

In May, Public Transport Minister Ben Carroll encouraged commuters who had to stand on V/Line trains to “use the hand holds available”.

  • Broede Carmody and Benjamin Preiss
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Melbourne’s skyline has been turbocharged with new apartment developments in the past decade.

When a vision of shiny new cities meant moving to the country

I was among a frolic of optimists who moved to what was billed as Australia’s national growth centre in the mid-1970s.

  • Tony Wright
The review effects residents in and nearby Wodonga, in north-east Victoria, as well as the adjacent town of Albury in southern NSW.

Colonoscopy ‘recall’: Almost 2000 Albury-Wodonga patients at risk, watchdog says

The healthcare watchdog has warned that a surgeon operated on the wrong end of a patient’s colon and made other serious errors since 2018.

  • Aisha Dow and Caroline Schelle
Tara Greenfield and her family in front of Xavier High School in Albury.

Fish out of water: Life inside the ever-changing border bubble

When Tegan Greenfield worked in Albury, customers saw a Victorian number plate and said ‘they need to go home’. She lives just three kilometres away.

  • Michael Fowler
Victorian Police Minister Lisa Neville.

'Appalling': Melbourne person fined after driving 320km for a Big Mac

One Melburnian has been caught driving to Wodonga for a McDonald’s Big Mac, while another travelled to Ballarat to get some "fresh air" in brazen breaches of lockdown restrictions.

  • Ashleigh McMillan

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