Scores of small and medium businesses are closing across Victoria as online shops boom outside the legal commitments of bricks-and-mortar retailers. 

Victorian councils want to retain their power of veto over new liquor outlets in country towns amid fierce debate about the links between family violence and access to alcohol.

An Australian tomato processor is selling its seed and skin by-products to beauty brands making moisturisers, facial scrubs and sunscreen as the industry is squeezed by cheap imports.

Clients of aged and disability care service Annecto say they have not been told who will be taking its place.

Recycling agricultural bags could divert up to 45,000 tonnes of single-use soft plastics from landfill, burning or burying on-farm each year, making new products instead.

Newspapers founded in the 1800s in Shepparton and Echuca are to be reduced to twice-weekly editions, McPherson Media Group announces, disappointing loyal readers. 

Australian producers are fetching "phenomenal" prices for lambs as overseas customers buy record amounts.