A massive wave of girls will take up soccer over the next four years as the giant legacy of this FIFA Women’s World Cup and the rise of the Matildas ­becomes clear.

A human tsunami is set to pour over the Great Dividing Range into the state’s booming bush towns.

Victorian firefighters have been offered a whopping 12 per cent pay increase over four years and thousands of dollars in cash bonuses under a new wage deal.

Police will review their previous callouts to a house where a father and his five boys were killed in a fire, as homicide investigators join a team of detectives examining their deaths.

A man has denied he was at an Outer Harbor dock site the same time as a man who fell to his death from shipping containers, a court has heard.