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Ice pipe found on lap of driver after crash
A 20-year-old Ballarat man was found with an ice pipe on his lap after crashing into a tree, a court has heard. Read more.
Hire car found damaged, deserted in forest
A Ballarat mother who hired a car, but failed to return it will face sentencing next year. Read more.
The schools that shaped Ballarat; then and now
Do you remember the days of the old schoolyard? Check out the photos here.
Another manufacturer leaves Ballarat
A multibillion-dollar manufacturer will move its operations from Ballarat to Melbourne by the new year taking about 40 jobs with it. Read more.
Centre lacked support
Owners of the Ballarat Exhibition Centre have spoken of the challenges they have faced in maintaining the facility as one of the city’s key major events draw cards. Read more.
Weather
Showers and 12 degrees - getting a bit repetitive isn't it?
Regional news
Vincent Stanford had thoughts of killing someone when he was as young as seven or eight and by the age of 12 was acting on those thoughts by trying to strangle a school teacher, the Supreme Court has heard.
Peter James has been a paramedic for 41 years and delivered 22 babies, but delivered a baby mid air for the first time on Monday afternoon.
National news
One woman has been arrested during a demonstration in Sydney on Tuesday night which protested against the treatment of Indigenous youth in detention.
Labor's decision to kill off the same-sex marriage plebiscite has delayed the reform indefinitely.
It means if Australia is to achieve marriage equality, it will not be via the admittedly imperfect way proposed, even though it was the only way forward this term.
Catholic schools in wealthy suburbs across Australia are being significantly overfunded by taxpayers, with some receiving up to four times their appropriate funding levels under sweetheart deals struck in the dying days of the Rudd government.
National weather radar
International news
Every morning if Thiolina Marpaung sees or smells smoke she obsessively hunts it down to its source.
Back in October 2008 as the American people were poised to choose between Barack Obama and John McCain – it was a more innocent time –The New Yorker magazine's David Sedaris tried to put himself in the frame of mind of an undecided voter.
Byron Bay woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor will soon be transferred to Bali's infamous Kerobokan jail to await trial over the death of Balinese police officer Wayan Sudarsa.
On this day | October 10
1928 | An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
1979 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1988 | Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1994 | The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1997 | Elton John went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Candle In The Wind 97' A re-write of his 1974 hit about Marilyn Monroe. This version was raising funds for the Diana, Princess of Wales charity, following her death in Paris. It went on to become the biggest selling single in the world ever.
The faces of Australia: Natalie Grylls
A young Riverina girl has been given the chance honour the memory of her friend with a study trip to Canada.
Natalie Grylls from Book Book was awarded the Matthew George young stockman award at the Melbourne Royal Show. The award was set up eight years ago after Mathew died in a car crash aged 21. Read more.
