VICTORIAN prisoners are getting high because jail security procedures are too lax to keep out illicit drugs.

THE first snow of the new season will fall on Friday, meteorologists forecast.

A PERTH mother could face charges of murdering her four-week-old baby after authorities conduct a post-mortem on the infant, a Perth court has been told.

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A University of Waikato team is spending the next few years helping Fonterra's New Zealand milk powder plants reduce energy consumption as part of its company-wide energy reduction project.

A guy in a Texas roadhouse is serving up chicken-fried bacon... with GRAVY ON THE SIDE. I know, I know; you're supposed to laugh at the stupid fat people eating their deep-fried cancer sticks. But secretly, I was watching that

A THIRD person has appeared in a Melbourne court over an alleged elaborate plot to smuggle convicted drug baron Tony Mokbel out of Australia.

BANKWEST says it plans to open 50 retail banking stores across Victoria in the next four years, creating 700 new jobs.

CHANNEL 9 has been ordered to pay the costs of its appeal against a ban on the screening in Victoria of its gangland series Underbelly.

VICTORIAN police officers brawled in public at a recent AFL match when questions were raised over loyalty to a former colleague suspected of being involved in an underworld murder.

A VICTORIAN police officer who has spent the past two days giving evidence to a police corruption inquiry has been suspended without pay, Victoria Police said today.

A MAN died in a Melbourne hospital less than two days after routine shoulder surgery, an inquest has heard.

FOSTER'S change in focus from beer to wine has sunk its boss and left it vulnerable to takeover or a fire sale of its wine assets.

A SECOND Opes director has turned the spotlight on ANZ, claiming the bank was "pretty clear" about the issues facing the stock-lending firm.

THE competition watchdog has begun market investigations into Westpac's proposed acquisition of St George Bank.

MELBOURNE-based Bennelong Funds Management is believed to have poached four senior members of ING's Australian equities team.

A SURPRISING fall in consumer sentiment in June to near 16-year lows has been blamed on higher fuel prices.