THE MOTHER of a Drouin Secondary College student told to improve their progress score or miss out on their Debutant Ball has labelled the school’s policies as “discriminatory.

WARRAGUL Hospital’s revamped emergency department was officially opened by Victorian Minister for Health David Davis and local Liberal MP Gary Blackwood on Friday.

FORMER Leongatha Police and Bass Coast Highway Patrol sergeant Jim Baum said his decades in the force had been a “blessing”.

POLICE are seeking the identity of a man who may be linked to a break-in at a Trafalgar fast food restaurant.

PRESIDENT Thein Sein is set to meet President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday - in the first state visit by a Myanmar leader since 1966.

GOOGLE Glass, the new high-tech pair of spectacles with in-built hands-free video camera and internet access, has raised privacy fears.

AT least eight people are reported dead in back-to-back car bombings in the semi-autonomous Russian republic of Dagestan.

SPICING up asthma medications with ginger may make them more effective, a study has shown.