A family from Melbourne's west feared they will become homeless after they were told to move back into their uninhabitable mice-infested house by their insurer.

After a double mastectomy, Peta Murphy thought she had beaten cancer but it came back eight years later, just days after she won her seat.

Stanley McPherson has been locked in his room by himself since Christmas.

'It's hell - he has told me straight out he feels like he is in prison'

Doctors are seeing a worrying rise in young Australians suffering from "long COVID", where a patient suffers debilitating symptoms long after the original infection has passed.

Nine reporter Christine Ahern has hit the ground running in Japan for a very different style of Olympic Games.

A former resident of St Basil's aged care home where 44 people died from COVID-19 said he survived on just watermelon for days on end, because he was not given any other suitable food to eat.

Health care workers on the coronavirus frontline in Melbourne have been relying on a Buddhist charity for crucial PPE supplies amid calls by doctors they don't have enough.

A Melbourne aged care GP said she is "horrified" by the Health Department's lack of advice to doctors about the provision of medical care in nursing homes affected by coronavirus outbreaks.

Thousands of litres of milk are being poured down the drain every day because no tankers could get through the fire ground to take the load.

A childcare centre in Melbourne's southeast deemed to be a "danger to life"  is one of a number of public buildings found by inspectors to be wrapped in combustible cladding.

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria's cladding crisis has left residents with fines worth thousands to remove the building material - which they claim safety authorities signed off.

Stroke Awareness Week is now close to home for TODAY reporter Christine Ahern after her six-year-old nephew suffered a stroke in March. 

They are the Navy’s version of the Special Operations Group. Clearance divers are an elite squad, and they have been called in to help at this year's Commonwealth Games.

A man has died after fire tore through a home in Melbourne’s east overnight.

A major manhunt is underway in Melbourne for a man wanted over a fire at his mother's house and a random double stabbing.

A push to have major roads in Richmond closed to traffic on Grand Final Day because of safety concerns has been rejected.

Two people using an ATM are lucky to be alive after a car crashed into a bank in Melbourne's south east sending the brick facade to come crashing down.

A suspected murder-suicide at an upmarket home in Melbourne's east has left neighbours reeling.

Shocking video has emerged of an umpire being chased down by the crowd at junior football grand final in Melbourne.

A double shooting in Melbourne's north is likely linked to warring Middle Eastern crime gangs, but not a fatal shooting in the same suburb earlier in the week.

A gang of armed thieves are on the run this morning after ransacking three service stations in Melbourne's north west on the weekend.

A police officer's foot has been run over during a dramatic arrest in Melbourne.

A man has been arrested following the death of a woman at a home in a newly purchased home in Melbourne's north.

A family-run milk bar in the Melbourne suburb of Werribee has been targeted by armed thugs for the second time in a month.

AFL executive Ali Fahour has been caught in another violent on-field attack, as calls grow louder for the League to take action against him.

The poorest in Brazil's capital have been marginalised ahead of the Olympic Games, with athletes barred from entering the favelas and much of the money from the event likely to go elsewhere.

After being filled in following a devastating flood, Los Angeles’ river is flowing again, and plans are underway to revitalise the once neglected wasteland.

A wealthy American dentist has become a wanted man in Africa over claims he slaughtered Zimbabwe's most famous lion. 

An iconic Texas ranch the size of two cities combined is now slated to sell for a record A$1 billion.

Bernard Tomic says he is not ready to make peace with Tennis Australia after a row with officials that saw him dumped from the Davis Cup.

For more than a century, a Los Angeles flower market was plagued by rodents, who ate the flowers and scared the customers, but that's now a distant memory thanks to some furry rat-catchers rescued from the pound.

Canadian police investigating the death of Victorian teenager Jake Kermond say he may have been pushed off a cliff.

Hollywood stars are hitting back after being named and shamed for watering their enormous lawns despite California's devastating drought.

One of the two killers who escaped a New York prison three weeks ago has been shot dead by police, just kilometres from the Canadian border.