Victoria bushfires

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Cathedral Golf Club has a course designed by Greg Norman. Incoming AFL Commission chairman Craig Drummond (top right) and former St Kilda and Essendon player Brendon Goddard are among the members. While Glenn Maxwell was at a recent star-studded event.

The subtle flex that sets this country golf club apart from the city clubs

The annual invitational at this course has nothing on the star power at the dinner, where the guests include a media mogul, a cricket World Cup hero, a radio and podcast supremo, and football royalty from the AFL and NRL.

  • Sam McClure

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For bushfire-affected koalas, the prognosis is often bad. The vet team at Wildlife Victoria treat burnt koalas with the best care possible.
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The sad reality for bushfire-affected koalas

For bushfire-affected koalas, the prognosis is often bad. The vet team at Wildlife Victoria treat burnt koalas with the best care possible.

  • Margaret Gordon
The fire in central Victoria on Tuesday, at the base of the Tallarook Ranges in Trawool.

‘We dodged a bullet’: Bushfire threat eases for central Victorian towns

An out-of-control bushfire threatened lives in three Victorian towns on Tuesday.

  • Alexander Darling and Angus Delaney
TagEnergy’s Golden Plains wind farm near Geelong in Victoria.

More than $9 billion in renewable energy projects fast-tracked in two years

Sweeping planning powers have been used to push through a raft of solar, wind and battery projects in just two years.

  • Kieran Rooney
Annabelle Cleeland and her five-year-old daughter Quinn (centre) with Lou Webb (left) and her children Tom and Fred, 3, and George, 6, and Felicity Jeffrey and her children Jemima,6, Sebastien,4 and Claudio,1, stand in the burnt out Jeffrey property in Whiteheads Creek. All three families’ homes were decimated by the Longwood fire.

‘I feel like everything’s changed’: Kids in bushfire-ravaged Victoria are returning to school

In many blackened towns, families are still putting out fires, mourning euthanised farm animals and defending their homes as preppies and school kids prepare for their first days of school on Monday. 

  • Nicole Precel
Opposition Leader Jess Wilson and Premier Jacinta Allan.

Politicians and the media once united to do good. In this heat, that’s impossible

Politics in Victoria used to be done better. There is no stronger example than the disciplined bipartisanship that helped create VicHealth.

  • Chip Le Grand
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The Victorian heatwave.

Locals told to stay vigilant as bushfires could ‘run again’

As crews try to contain blazes in the Otways, Victoria’s fire chief has warned about the tinder-dry conditions.

  • Liam Mannix, Bianca Hall and Alexander Darling
The outskirts of the Otways bushfire.

Victoria heatwave as it happened: State swelters through record-breaking heatwave as Otways fire grows

The last time Victoria experienced such a prolonged heatwave was 2009, when Black Saturday saw the Mallee record 12 days above 40 degrees. Follow our rolling coverage.

  • Isabel McMillan and Cassandra Morgan
Tumbleweed blew into an Eynesbury home on January 9

‘Nervous as hell’: Tumbleweed spike creates messy fire hazard in Melbourne’s west

Tumbleweeds are filling up the streets of the outer west, blocking doorways and covering front yards for metres, creating fuel for potential fires.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly stands at the site of Saturday’s Hoddle Street blaze.

The high-stakes ‘game of chicken’ highlighted by a median-strip fire

A grass fire along Hoddle Street has exposed the danger of overgrown state-owned median strips and verges.

  • Rachael Dexter