Bendigo - 3550

While bricks-and-mortar store insolvencies are on the rise, retail experts say shops that can "surprise and delight" are fearlessly throwing open their doors to keen customers.

Gerald Murnane rarely leaves his tiny Victorian town, but bookies have him among the favourites to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.

In 1972, Robyn Howarth’s entire school was kidnapped, in a brazen crime and audacious escape that made headlines around the world.

Twenty-one years ago, the tiny town of Ultima set out to boost its population by 25 per cent within a year at a cost of just $12.  

Unions say nursing staff will be lost at a regional Victorian hospital along with redeployments as the Bendigo Health service undergoes a major restructure.

Described as one of the brightest comets in recent years, it could return looking even more impressive later this month if it survives a close call with the sun.

Iconic Australian fruit canning company SPC has agreed to merge with the Original Juice Company in a move to shore up their future in a difficult time for manufacturers.

While all other graves are neatly aligned on either side of a central walkway, Craig McCallum's grave sits at the head of the cemetery in the middle of that walkway.

A fruit and vegetable grower with a roadside stall says it's been a bumper year as people with discretionary income — and a distrust of major supermarkets — shop around.

From peeling wallpaper and a cellar left mouldy from floodwater, this couple has restored a circa-1881 Victorian mansion into a grand attraction with some modern-day living features.

With the series on the line, the world champion Diamonds rebound from their second-Test loss to triumph 69-56 against the Roses in Bendigo.

Two of Bendigo's Golden Dragons were vandalised earlier this year. In the wake of the heartbreak, we tell the remarkable story of how the third dragon came to be.

Loong and Sun Loong parading.

Time lapse of Dai Gum Loong being built in 2019.

Dai Gum Loong blessing

Charles and Diana see Sun Loong

Bendigo's dragons parading at night

When planning a road trip, the journey can be just as important as the destination, so look out for these impressive landmarks across Victoria.

Diabetic William Herbert Swale, 67, is a free man after a magistrate said he had no case to answer over the 2023 crash that killed five outside a country Victoria hotel. 

A $21 million philanthropic investment in a new medical research centre in Melbourne will see "spatial biology" technologies used to better diagnose diseases.