Shannon Schubert

The ABC spent a week inside the court that presides over youth crime and witnessed fearful victims, young people living with trauma and magistrates facing the difficult to decision to bail or remand.

When Rebecca Brewin dropped into her local op shop in Melbourne's east a few days ago, she had no idea she was just a footstep away from some pieces of Australian television history.

With production winding up for the final time at television show Neighbours, van-loads of old props have been donated to op shops.

Neighbours fans rush to Melbourne op shops after 40 years of props, furniture and Ramsay Street relics were donated to charities.

Inner-city Melbourne community health service cohealth will be shuttering its GP services at the end of the year, citing escalating costs and aging infrastructure.

A coroner's court has heard Melbourne nutrition influencer Stacey Warnecke died from a postpartum haemorrhage following a freebirth in September.

"Sovereign living", "holistic birthkeeping" and birth as a "sacred ritual".

Grassland in Victoria has dried significantly since September, including in the north-west of the state and in outer Melbourne, putting firefighters on edge.

Parents are frustrated by delayed building repairs at Collingwood College. ABC News

Liveable Victoria launched to campaign against Labor's planning reforms Liveable Victoria campaigners are against the government's plans for activity centres. ABC News: Scott Jewel