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Family and friends of 30-year-old camera operator James Rose and 56-year-old pilot Stephen Gale pay tribute to the two men, as authorities continue to investigate the cause of Sunday's mid-air plane crash over Melbourne's Port Phillip bay.

Police say they have found the fuselage of a plane which crashed into Port Phillip bay on Sunday. The wreckage will be removed from the water and searched.

Police say their search of Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay for two people who were on board a plane that crashed on Sunday is now "solely a recovery mission".

Emergency services find what appears to be the wreckage of a light aircraft in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay after two planes collided midair.

Cities around the country are again heaving with life, but many of the approximately 500,000 Australians who are severely immunocompromised are left fearing for their health.

Art sleuth Leigh Capel says it was a "jaw-dropping moment" when he realised a portrait miniature he had bought online had been stolen from a Victorian museum eight years earlier.

The family of Central Coast woman Genene Norris, who died days after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, describes its "profound loss". It comes as the TGA chief says investigations will reveal more details about the "atypical" case.

A national survey indicates nearly half of all Year 10-12s have had sex, but experts say sex ed in Australia is a "mixed bag". Is our curriculum too focused on "bugs and babies and bodies"?

A woman is arrested after a 17-year-old boy is critically injured in an alleged hit-and-run involving a four-wheel drive vehicle along on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.

Two men who are alleged to be the ringleaders of a hoon driving group are charged in Melbourne's south-eastern and north-western suburbs, bringing the total number of people charged during the police crackdown to 42.

Further charges are laid and a total of 18 cars are seized after a Victoria Police crackdown on illegal street racing.

A three-day women's festival to be held in March next year is criticised for not allowing transgender women to attend unless they have undergone gender re-assignment surgery.

A "for sale" sign showing a woman sunbaking topless has sparked calls for an overhaul of Victoria's privacy laws.

Thieves have made off with priceless artefacts linked to the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

Ten priceless artefacts from a Napoleon Bonaparte collection have been stolen from a museum on the Mornington Peninsula. The thieves broke into a historic homestead on the Mornington Peninsula on Thursday night and made off with the "irreplaceable" items. Police say the items may have been stolen to order for a collector. The rest of the collection has been moved to a safer location while security is reviewed.

Far away from the hurly burly of the electoral fight in the marginal seats 730 Victoria catches up with candidates who are true believers.

Drivers travel time to be cut by 40 minutes between Carrum Downs and Mount Martha.

Residents have been urged to check their electrical appliances following a power surge in areas of south-east Melbourne.

Divers have again inspected the fishing trawler which sank on Saturday.

Detectives are investigating the serious assault of a woman at Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula last night.

Marine biologists are baffled by a change in the behaviour of whales visiting Victorian bays this year.

A four-year-old boy has died after a car hit a tree at Mount Martha, south of Melbourne, yesterday afternoon.

A man in search of a secluded beach on the Mornington Peninsula south-east of Melbouurne has been winched to safety after becoming trapped on a cliff face.

A Melbourne woman had an unexpected birthday adventure after being rescued by helicopter in Port Phillip Bay yesterday afternoon.

A woman is facing charges after allegedly making a false report to police about a sex attack on the Mornington Peninsula last week.