City of Ballarat councillors have elected the municipality's mayor and deputy mayor for the 2025-26 term in a narrow majority ...

Global humanitarian and former investment banker, Dr Alison Thompson OAM, has been named the 2026 Australian of the Year for ...

Australia's top six for the first Ashes Test became no clearer after Tasmania duo Jake Weatherald and Beau Webster failed to ...

Mitchell Starc has fired an early Ashes warning, taking four wickets on his return to red ball bowling as Victoria reached ...

The venue for Nikita Tszyu and Michael Zerafa's January bout, dubbed "the biggest all-Australian grudge match in ...

A nearly 15-kilometre section of the Midland Highway will be closed near Ballarat for five days to allow crews to undertake ...

Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a one-year-old boy from the Ballarat suburb of Sebastopol after he ...

A driver has been acquitted of murder after a hammer-wielding, near-naked man was fatally struck following a road ...

The program that helped Ivy Considine and hundreds of other young people launch agricultural careers is facing closure, ...

The new-generation Toyota HiLux has been revealed and will go on sale in Australia from December 2025, with an expanded ...

Fire restrictions will begin in the Ballarat region later this month with authorities continuing to urge residents to clean ...

When getting to the scene of a fire CFA captain John Houston knows "every second counts" but he says conditions on south-west ...