AT least 15 people were arrested out of a crowd of more than 100,000 who turned up to enjoy Derby Day at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse.

A KAYAKER is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a four-metre great white shark in the ocean off Victoria's southwest coast.

AUSTRALIAN woman with a world record for the longest time spent in an iron lung has died aged 83.

FAMILY says the body of a small child found in a Melbourne river is their young son Christian Peck.

TRAINER Mike Moroney has won the Group One Victoria Derby with rising star Monaco Consul.

A 58-year-old man has been shot in a drive-by shooting at a property in Victoria's northwest this morning.