RETAILERS in Drouin have reported mixed yet strong results from this year’s “I love Drouin”-themed Ficifolia Festival.

PROJECTED increases in mean temperatures and more extreme temperature days due to climate change could affect commuters on the V/Line rail network.

THE Australian Greens see the Gippsland South by-election as a referendum on coal seam gas extraction.

LEONGATHA Primary School held an assembly on Friday to say farewell to vice principal Grant Kuhne, who is retiring after a teaching career of 37 years.

An angry badger lays siege to a luxury hotel in central Stockholm, preventing guests from checking out and forcing police to intervene.

Alexei Navalny, a critic of the Kremlin, walks out of a Moscow detention centre vowing to continue to challenge Vladimir Putin after last week's killing of another prominent opposition leader.

ISLAMIC State jihadists are able to "exert an outsized impact on how the world perceives it" because of its use of social media, a US think tank says.

MARRIAGE equality and anti-homophobia messages are expected to be the dominant theme at this year's gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade on Saturday night.