Several of the Woodstock Honda Thor team are preparing to take on theannual off-road Hattah Desert Race this weekend (July 4-5) in north westVictoria.Woodstock Honda Thor team owner Yarrive Konsky will compete in theDesert Race for the first time, pairing

Christensen's Motorcycles riders Mark Portbury , Travis Cooper & Dean Minichiello have just returned from Austria where they competed in the toughest Enduro in the world, "Erzberg".The three boys had entered four events over the four days, the first event

Round 8 of the Victorian off-road championship finds it’s way to the historic venue of Broadfordon Sunday the 12th of July. A place surnonimous with the Mr Motocross series of the 70’s and80,s, legendry names have been forged around the

A POWER outage in the Hunter Valley has been felt across five Australian states, cutting power to at least 200,000 customers.

THE tragic case of a mother who strapped her young son to her chest and leapt from the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne has renewed pressure on the Victorian Government to fast-track building suicide barriers.

A FORMER colleague of television identity Gavan Disney has testified that he watched him fondle and abuse a junior colleague.

MELBOURNE AFL club CEO Jim Stynes has told a press conference he will treat this week like any other, despite his battle with cancer.

THE chief of Victoria's Country Fire Authority (CFA) failed in at least one of his "core responsibilities" on Black Saturday, warning systems proved inadequate and emergency hotlines broke down when they were needed most.

A MAN who was allegedly drink driving when he hit and killed a cyclist on a bayside Melbourne road has pleaded guilty to culpable driving.

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THE owner of a West Australian tavern has been fined $6000 for illegally employing children.

ELEVEN Indonesian men convicted of smuggling asylum seekers into Australia will each spend a minimum three years in jail.

THE killer of a Chinese student who was left to die after being raped and choked on a roadside verge has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

1 July 2009 - Healthy home ventilation specialist HRV New Zealand has been officially accepted into the Sensitive Choice programme by the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand.

1 July 2009 - Kiwis stayed in and turned on in such huge numbers in June that television has recorded its biggest audiences in more than a decade.

1 July 2009 - "The incident is just awful and has unnerved those of us so used to the presence of trains," said Cameron Brewer, head of the Newmarket Business Association.

In the biggest operational changes seen at Ports of Auckland in a decade, from Monday 6 July container operations will be based at the port's recently expanded Fergusson container terminal.