Homicide detectives are investigating whether an elderly man’s death was the result of an armed robbery gone wrong. The 70-year-old east Ballarat resident was found dead inside his home on Wensleydale ...

Lauren Bourke, head of collections at the Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections in Ballarat, snaps on plastic gloves ...

A 'dark cloud' is hanging over the community of a regional Victorian town following the deaths of two women in the space of two months, a criminal psychologist has said. The locals of Ballarat ...

The 51-year-old Ballarat, Victoria, resident went missing on Sunday morning after going for a run in the Canadian State Forest, with police describing her disappearance as out of character.

One of them, a 21-year-old Ballarat man, was extracted by a specialist mine rescue crew around 8:30pm on Wednesday. He was flown to The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne with life-threatening injuries ...

Filipinos make up the fourth fastest-growing migrant community in Ballarat. The historic town has been good to the community that calls it home. An old mining town. A haven for artistic expression.

Ballarat has recorded its wettest June day in 100 years, the Bureau of Meteorology says, as heavy ran lashes Victoria and triggered major flooding south of Wangaratta. Ballarat recorded 46 ...

Detectives from the missing persons squad arrested the man, who is not linked to the Murphy family, at his Ballarat home at about 6am on Wednesday. This afternoon they charged him with murder and ...

The 21-year-old Ballarat man was rushed to the Alfred Hospital in a critical condition hours after becoming pinned underneath fallen rocks at the Ballarat Gold Mine at Mount Clear on Wednesday.

Federal police have accused a 51-year-old Ballarat man of threatening a federal MP by emailing their electorate office on March 27. The AFP allegedly traced the messages to the man’s personal ...

Recently named the state’s top tourist town by the Victoria Tourism Industry Council, Ballarat is becoming a regional hotspot ... cafe and bar situated in front of the property’s 100-year-old horse ...

His colleague, a 21-year-old Ballarat man, was airlifted to The Alfred hospital and was in a critical condition late on Friday. Mine owner Victory Minerals said WorkSafe Victoria had approved its ...