Victoria

Human remains have been found by detectives one week after a man was allegedly shot and bundled into a ute following an argument.

Thousands of Aussie kids and their parents have been left in the lurch after a major childcare provider collapsed into voluntary administration, while a separate centre in suddenly shut its doors.

A woman was stabbed when she tried to shield the boy from the alleged attacker. 

Two slain police officers are set to be farewelled almost a year on from a fatal shooting that sparked one of Australia's largest manhunts.

Victoria now has the nation’s highest number of stolen vehicles and the State’s police are urging motorists to fight back against sophisticated criminals surprisingly old-school defences.

The court heard that the fatal confrontation happened in broad daylight in a shopping centre west of Melbourne.

Tributes have flowed for the young mum-of-three a man was charged with her murder.

An innocent woman was also injured when the Mustang collided with two other cars.

A violent man who strangled a young woman and then staged her death as a suicide has been acquitted of rape.

A man remains missing after allegedly being shot and bundled into his attacker's car, following an argument at a semi-rural property.

Dau Akueng should have been chasing his basketball dreams. Almost a year after the 15-year-old was allegedly slain in a machete attack, his family shares the life they imagined for him and the future they lost.

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson's appeal hearing will continue for a second day, with the prosecution set to argue her sentence was manifestly inadequate.

Victoria’s youth knife crisis is deepening, with the number of child offenders involved in stabbings jumping 30 per cent in just one year.

A teenager has been lambasted for cowardly and inhumane behaviour as he was jailed for killing his friend and maiming another months earlier.

A hitman responsible for four ‘dreadful’ execution murders is fighting for his parole approval to proceed after nearly four decades behind bars.

Alleged gangland crime boss Fadi Haddara is fighting for life after being shot in Melbourne’s west on Sunday night. 

‘At that point my father broke down ... that’s a bloke who has been farming for 55-odd years and seen a fair bit of crap in his time.’

A man who denies raping a 16-year-old girl at a regional house party is facing trial in the County Court, with messages between the pair detailed to a jury.