Danny Tran

A prize-winning Victorian architect responsible for major community housing projects has been charged with carrying out illegal building work on her own property, and allegedly assaulting a neighbour with a plastic pipe.

They're fake, often graphic images of real people and they are increasingly being circulated around Victorian schools.

An Australian gymnastics coach selected for the Paris Olympics is accused of making comments about a former colleague's breasts and calling her a "minion".

Australian songbird Vanessa Amorosi has emerged victorious in the bitter court battle against her mother, who she sued after the pair had a dramatic falling out over her fortune.

No criminal charges will be laid over Veronica Nelson's cruel and preventable death in a Victorian prison, after the state's workplace safety watchdog declared there was "insufficient evidence" to prosecute justice officials or a prison healthcare provider.

A friend of Cigdem Aslan says any suggestion she was conducting activities for a banned Kurdish separatist group are a "100 per cent lie".

In the midst of that spike, researchers say young people with intellectual disabilities are going unsupported and overlooked in the criminal justice system.

A highly trained member of Victoria Police's riot squad allegedly punched a protester in the throat and assaulted two others during a controversial