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The massive solar energy power plant proposed for Mildura would be similar to this US one, with hundreds of solar panels reflecting light up to a central tower. Photo: AFP THE State Government is being pressured to step in to...

A loud rustle came from the undergrowth at the edge of the boardwalk...Expecting a bush turkey but hoping for a bigger bird, I craned my neck to see more. From under the dry leaves crawled a monitor lizard. When I'd...

Thanksgiving rain is giving way to drier weather today as lucky shoppers make their way to Black Friday sales and the rest of us make our way to work. The National Weather Service reported 1.12 inches of rain fell at...

QSR International, which exports to 150 countries, has won The Age /D&B Victorian Business of the Year Award. QSR, whose achievement was announced at a luncheon in Melbourne yesterday, took out the main prize from a field of seven companies...The...

Youthblock has been kicked out of its Camperdown building as part of reorganisation at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in preparation for the construction of the $300 million Lifehouse cancer centre. Adolescent health experts are outraged at the demise of Youthblock's...

IF YOU have spent the past year in a bunker you can be forgiven for losing sight of the big picture...No year is complete without some regulatory flashpoint and 2010 will not disappoint...Budgets will continue to shift online, putting more...

Woolworths and National Foods have issued an immediate recall of two litre bottles of Woolworths Fresh Milk Lite. The recall applies to the milk with a use by date of December 6 sold in all stores, including Woolworths, Safeway and...

Scientists have found a telltale "bathtub ring" of minerals inside an ancient Martian impact crater, which has led them to suggest that Mars may have once hosted a body of water roughly the size of Lake Michigan. According to a...

But oral application of the same medicine does not work as well, with 62 percent of addicts receiving a daily tablet returning to regular heroin use. The implant provides an extended therapeutic period during which heroin addicts can alter their...

Senator Conroy and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, Bill Shorten MP, today published a discussion report, Access to Electronic Media for the Hearing and Vision Impaired: Approaches for Consideration . The report identifies approaches aimed at improved audio description and captioning...