VICTORIANS have been asked to safety check tens of thousands of lights installed under the state’s energy upgrades program after reports of a brand falling to the ground.

MELBOURNE’S western suburbs would get a new $900 million Royal Children’s Hospital under a state Liberal government.

THE state government is hiring a $170,000 policy adviser for Melbourne’s second injecting room despite not even having a report it had commissioned into the controversial facility.

THE HOMICIDE squad has posted a $1m reward in the cold case of a young woman murdered on her birthday three decades ago.

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