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The Mountain Ash forest in Victoria, which generates nearly all of the water for Melbourne's people and businesses, is close to collapse and this poses a major threat to the the city's water supply.

Mobile coverage on Victoria's five busiest regional rail lines is expected to improve with the government's Regional Rail Connectivity Project being accelerated.

The Australian Federal Police is undertaking a roadshow of its cyber safety programme, ThinkUKnow, in NSW and Victoria aimed at educating communities about how to keep young people safe in online environments.

Vodafone has expanded its Australia-wide mobile network, adding 128 new mobile sites across the network.

The Australian ICT sector jobs market for executives hit a high note in November with a 35% gain, coming second only to management in gains, according to the latest executive demand index from EL Consult recruitment.

A Telstra-led consortium of large energy users has inked long-term power purchase agreements covering the 226 megawatt (MW) first stage of the Murra Warra Wind Farm near Horsham in western Victoria.

Driving of the future was on show this week at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, as VicRoads tested a highly automated driving (HAD) vehicle fitted with claimed world-first satellite positioning technology.

Global professional services firm Accenture has worked with Victorian energy retailer Momentum Energy to transform its business by leveraging Salesforce cloud solutions.

Technology and specialist recruiter Peoplebank has appointed 20-year recruitment industry veteran Brent Leahy as general manager Victoria in a move it says will further strengthen its position as a recruitment partner to Victoria’s Government, utilities and private sector organisations.

EastLink has conducted its first trial of hands-free driving through freeway tunnels using the lane keep assist function on the Honda Civic VTi-LX.

Bosch Australia and Monash University have joined forces to establish a “first-of-its-kind” ag-tech facility in Melbourne's southeast for innovating new smart farming techniques including automated harvesting, sensing networks and driverless vehicles in response to growing challenges faced by the agriculture sector.

Small ISP MyRepublic has been dogged by speed issues from 6.30am AEST on Saturday, due to what it says are problems with its upstream carrier. The issues appear to have been fixed as of 7.45pm AEST.

The demand for executives in the IT sector continues to decline, with a fall of 11% in October reversing gains made earlier in the year.

Victoria is likely to be the state hardest hit by the National Australia Bank’s plans to cut up to 4000 jobs from its operations nationally over the next three years.

Thousands of police officers in Victoria are being equipped with iPad minis and iPhones with a mobile app from the Motorola-owned app developer Gridstone.

Optus is continuing to invest in its network and services in regional Australia with the latest investment in Bendigo in Victoria of $2.8 million aimed at improving 4G mobile coverage over the next 18 months.

The national broadband network rollout, continually mired in political and public controversy over its multi-technology mix and speed variations and endless consumer complaints, now has its first activation of premises with Fibre-to-the-Curb (FttC) technology, heralded by NBN Co as a much cheaper technology delivering substantial cost savings.

Employment demand for ICT executives slumped by 6% in September, with the Queensland tech sector showing the best results compared to other states, according to the latest job index.

The federal government has released just shy of $30 million in funding to help 20 companies in South Australia and Victoria establish and expand advanced manufacturing activities.

A Victorian couple claims it is now powering its rural cottage entirely off-grid, using renewable energy after upgrading its solar panels and storage battery from battery company Redflow.