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An earthquake in eastern Victoria overnight has been felt by thousands of people across several states.

As rising sea levels lead to more fish in the ocean around Phillip Island, off Australia's southern coast, polyamorous little penguins are using the extra energy to breed.

Domestic violence support services say they are stretched to the brink and need more resources to keep up with "inventive" abusers who know how to work the system.

The 25-year-old Pakenham saleyards are the closest of their kind to the city and handle up to 100,000 cattle destined for supermarket shelves each year. But they will close in 2024, in a foreboding sign for saleyards in general.

Ariane "Kiki" Joseph's volunteer work in the rural town of Leongatha is appreciated so much by the local community that it has raised more than $10,000 to help her appeal against her carer visa rejection.

An organiser of the first exhibition at a new $30 million cultural centre says Victorian Aboriginal artists "really put themselves out there" with their stories and styles.

A beef wellington lunch allegedly led to three deaths and a small south-east Victorian community in shock. Now the host has been charged with murder. Here's how it all unfolded.

Prosecutors say it will take months to analyse computer equipment seized from the home of a woman charged with murder over a mushroom meal linked to three deaths in Victoria's east.

Erin Patterson, who cooked a mushroom lunch in late July suspected of resulting in three people's deaths, faces charges including murder and attempted murder.

The woman who served the fatal mushroom meal that killed three people in Victoria's south-east, Erin Patterson has been arrested.

Police have escorted the woman to a local police station following a search of her property. She cooked a mushroom lunch suspected of killing three people in Victoria's east.

A council in the state's south-east has proposed a local law restricting grass growth to 30 centimetres, but farmers say it's "just not feasible".

The mother of a 16-year-old boy with Down syndrome says Victoria's high intensity outside school hours care program has provided opportunities for her son, and supported her to keep working.

After her friend was murdered by her estranged ex-husband, Bass Coast woman Lija Matthews began rallying support for others in desperate need of a safe space. 

Tanker drivers and dairy factory workers have walked off the job this week in separate strike actions, calling for better pay and conditions after companies "made record profits" during the pandemic.

Victoria is facing milk shortages with unprecedented strike action planned by dairy workers.

Heather Wilkinson, who died after a suspected mushroom poisoning incident in Victoria, is remembered by her son as being thoughtful, faithful and full of grace at a public memorial service.

The Korumburra pastor had been taken to Austin Hospital in a critical condition following a family lunch where police suspect he ingested death cap mushrooms.

Genomics is rapidly opening up new horizons for plant and animal breeders - including the breeding of more sustainable dairy cows.

There are hopes the release of six Pookila mice into the wild in Victoria will help boost numbers of the endangered species.

Supermarkets are telling their mushroom suppliers that sales have decreased by up to 10 per cent in the past few weeks. It comes in the wake of three people dying of suspected death cap mushroom poisoning in Gippsland, Victoria.

Russell Broadbent says he changed his mind about how he would vote after being contacted by First Nations people in his Victorian electorate.

Completing the 100-day challenge had been on Leah Stamm's bucket list for several years and she says she only had to wash the dress a handful of times.

Australia's mushroom industry says there's no chance poisonous mushrooms could enter commercial products, as the big supermarkets say fungi sales are still going strong.

Authorities are remaining tight-lipped on the investigation into a suspected mushroom poisoning, after the woman at the centre of the saga gave police a detailed written statement.