Emma D'Agostino

Robert McEnroe, Samantha Carlyon, and their two sons had been sleeping in tents at a reserve in Bendigo for months when council workers told them they had to leave.

Malcolm Hackett and partner Diana Robertson lost their home in 2009's Black Saturday bushfires at Strathewen, north-east of Melbourne.

The Mount Alexander Shire Council says it will approach the owners of a Campbells Creek bush block with compassion, but maintains the property is not liveable and its residents will be evicted.

Stranded Australian tourists in riot-stricken New Caledonia say they've been notified of French government flights back to Australia, but details are unclear.

With her hands in the dirt, Jo Huf looks around the land on which she can grow vegetables but can't call home. "We've got our garlic in," Ms Huf said.

A few weeks ago, Patrick Jones, Meg Ulman, and their 11-year-old son, Woody, were waking to icy cold winter mornings at their home in Daylesford, in central Victoria.

Colbinabbin residents and the local council are calling on the Victorian government to reconsider plans to develop a solar farm on prime agricultural land.

In short: A teacher has been sentenced to jail for sexual offences against a 15-year-old child.

Almost two years to the day after floods destroyed her house, Tracie Kyne is finally back home, but it has not been without a fight.