The Victorian government has extended the seven-day lockdown for metropolitan Melbourne but regional Victorians will win some freedoms back from midnight tonight. Follow our live coronavirus coverage.

Melburnians out of work can get a $500 weekly disaster payment during lockdown. Meanwhile a second Victorian aged care resident has tested positive to COVID-19 and NSW has new exposure sites.

A group of plane passengers who landed in Darwin just after restrictions changed on Thursday has headed straight to Howard Springs under tough new travel measures.

The former soldier has filed Federal Court proceedings against his ex wife just days before his defamation case against the Herald and The Age is due to start.

The officers have been charged with negligently causing serious injury over an arrest in which a man was left paralysed from the neck down.

A 24-year-old man has been remanded in custody after police allegedly found $2 million of cocaine hidden inside a Nissan X-Trail.

The victim’s life-changing injuries and how close he came to death were detailed in his statement read aloud to the court.

The Prime Minister says Victorians who meet strict criteria can apply for financial assistance as of Monday as the state recorded three new cases, all linked to primary close contacts who had already been identified. 

Sarkis Elbayeh, 37, is accused of sexually assaulting the woman in a car park on Cross Street, Double Bay, on May 30.  

The state’s public hospitals recorded an increase in admissions into the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite drops across the private sector and most other jurisdictions.

Angry customers lash out at retail workers just hours before the new rules come into effect, as retailers and union officials raise concerns with the state government.

Three senior members of an outlaw motorcycle gang have been charged over the extortion of a shopkeeper in Riverstone in Sydney’s north-west.

If there’s been a pattern repeated throughout this pandemic, it’s that humans are surprisingly terrible at pattern recognition. The same story unfolds and yet we are surprised – and strangely unprepared.

Melbourne-born Russell Moore, who has died in Florida, was jailed for life in 1991 for murder. His birth mother spent years campaigning for him to be returned to Australia.

Today on Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper is joined by education editor Jordan Baker to find out more about the changes to the national maths curriculum.

Ms Darcy’s barrister acknowledged she had told “lots and lots of lies” but said she may have had reasons aside from being guilty of her partner’s murder.

The WA government is close to finishing a review of alternative COVID-19 quarantine facilities as Roger Cook suggests Busselton as a good location.

Cases of common illnesses have hit record lows as hygiene measures used to stop the spread of COVID-19 have put the brakes on the transmission of many childhood viruses and diseases.

Locals on the South Coast and along the Hume are awaiting COVID-19 test results after NSW Health revised its list of sites visited by a holidaying Victorian family.

Dane Frances De Leon pleaded guilty after she was arrested last year during a protest at a Kangaroo Point detention facility.

A green bridge between the inner-Brisbane suburbs would reduce congestion to the CBD and be used heavily by pedestrians and cyclists, one of Australia’s leading urban planning agencies says.

Challenging times require extraordinary political discipline from those charged with leading us through this historic episode.

Brae Taylor Lewis poured fuel over his girlfriend and set her on fire in May 2016, after an argument over a mobile phone.

Finks and Comancheros bikie Liam Scorsese was shot twice by police in February 2018 after threatening his partner at her parents’ home.

In a region with a long history of missing persons, the disappearance of Carol Clay and Russell Hill has sparked many rumours.

West Australian students are more likely to miss school when they have their period because they’re too embarrassed or afraid they’ll get teased.

The Holiday Dollars program has been extended with another wave of vouchers to encourage travellers towards the Gold Coast.

Eleven males, including a 17-year-old boy, have been charged after Dillan Mancuso was abducted by an armed group who also assaulted his 61-year-old father. 

It’s crunch time, with startling pollution figures revealed, a court challenge afoot, protesters hounding government and Woodside defending its green credentials.

The family of Jordan Kelly has made the decision to end the search after days of land, air and water efforts.

A federal scheme set up after Victoria’s deadly aged care COVID-19 surge has paid grants to just 33 nursing home operators.

Sexual consent laws would better reflect modern community standards under reforms proposed by the state government last week, yet NSW barristers are on track to strike the changes down on the basis of old-fashioned views about consent and misplaced c...

The NSW government’s upcoming budget deficit would be $2.7 billion worse than forecast – or almost 50 per cent bigger than expected – without a controversial rail entity propping it up.

The funding, included in this month’s state budget, also covers a new court-diversion program for defendants accused of low-level offences.

Business leaders and philanthropists are intent on upping the pace of efforts in Canberra to establish a genuinely representative Indigenous Voice to Federal Parliament.

Hornsby Council has been accused by Sydney Water officials of being “pushy” and misrepresenting facts over a proposed road extension through the secure and secretive Thornleigh Reservoir.

Anaesthetist Roderick McRae says there has been a collective complacency in the nation over the past six months and now action must be taken.

The Premier must be quite shocked and disappointed at her Treasury’s nefarious bookkeeping.

An Australian-developed needle-free COVID vaccination has passed pre-clinical trials with flying colours, leading to hope it could help protect against future variants.

There is no epidemiological evidence this virus is moving faster or spreading in novel ways to previous strains. So why are we being told it is?

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

Sixty years ago, the world’s two most powerful men - US President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev - met in the Austrian capital.

Sir Paul defends youthful folly, new plans for Trocadero site and Czech leadership yields to Moscow.

It’s less than a week until the ALP’s fundraisers leap into action for the Federal Labor Business Exchange - expected to be one of the party’s biggest money spinners of the year.

The property market is going gangbusters but we must question the motives of those riding the wave that warn us we need to invest now.

New research reveals that panic buyers tend to be parents, female, younger than 55 and university educated.

Victoria’s lockdown is expected to be extended beyond Thursday, as authorities reveal a positive Melbourne case travelled to NSW while potentially infectious.

NSW Health has issued an alert for further venues of concern after a Victorian family holidayed in the state’s south last month before testing positive to COVID-19.

And the case of the exploding case.

Research suggests adding a mental component to exercise for older people by getting them playing active video games has a positive cognitive benefit.