Callum Godde

Victoria's health department won't face trial over alleged hotel quarantine failures that led to hundreds of deaths during the COVID-19 crisis.

Health workers posed as patients in a waiting room, arrived by ambulance and lay on a trolley in a corridor feigning illness during a ruse to make a regional clinic look busy for a ministerial visit.

Worksafe charged the Department of Health in September 2021 with 58 breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, after a 15-month investigation into the bungled system.

Rachael Ward, Callum Godde and Kaitlyn Offer May 1, 2024

Upping Victoria's windfall gains tax on developers could raise billions of dollars to funnel into cost-of-living relief measures.

Flemington Racecourse's controversial levee will not be pulled down despite an independent review finding it worsened the flooding of homes.

Flemington Racecourse's controversial levee worsened widespread flooding of Melbourne homes but won't be ripped down. Get the latest Lithgow news in your inbox

Struggling Victorian families will be at the centre of the state budget, with Premier Jacinta Allan hinting inflationary and interest rate pressures are hurting the state's fiscal bottom line.

More than 700,000 Australians will benefit from the cash boost.