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The search for the 51-year-old mother focused on Woowookarung Regional Park and the bushland area near the Buninyong Golf Course yesterday, but has now expanded to Black Hill.

A study of tens of thousands of Victorian cases finds women in cardiac arrest are only half as likely as men to receive defibrillation from a bystander — some telling investigators they feared exposing the patient's chest.

Just two weeks ago Ballarat had to grapple with losing the 2026 Commonwealth Games. Now it's been announced it will likely lose the Road Nationals cycling championships too. 

Dan Irwin was 16 when he started gambling. Over 25 years he lost everything that mattered and decided it was time to turn his life around.

A trucking company operator calls for warning lights to be installed urgently on the Midland Highway approach to Buninyong, after a B-double truck crashed through the town's central roundabout. 

Lighter and more delicate-tasting truffles have been growing in stealth in central Victoria — until they were unexpectedly unearthed by truffle-sniffing dog Winston.

Tasmanian cyclist Nicole Frain wins her first Australian road race title after launching a perfectly-timed solo attack late in the last few kilometres.

One GP says he's not expecting patients to rush to get the AstraZeneca vaccine "just because the PM spoke on TV", while pharmacists say they are being underutilised, putting lives at risk.

School principal Michelle Wilson spent a stressful two hours on the phone, convinced she owed $8,000 and could soon be arrested if she didn't pay up. Then she realised the whole thing was an elaborate hoax.

Sarah Gigante was racing around on wheels before she could walk, and now she is upstaging some of the biggest names in Australian cycling.

The first time she popped a bottle of champagne was on the winner's podium of the one of the country's most important races: Meet 18-year-old Sarah Gigante, the cyclist beating the sport's best.

Emergency services bring a fire south-west of Melbourne under control as authorities urge Victorians to prepare for what's predicted to be the state's worst bushfire season in a decade.

Firefighters are battling an out-of-control bushfire at Buninyong and Scotsburn, near Ballarat, in Victoria's west.

Firefighters contain a blaze near Ballarat, in Victoria's west, which prompted the state's first emergency warning of the summer.

The Victorian Liberal Party preferences a conservative Christian who promotes gay conversion therapy and refers to homosexuality as "sexual brokenness", on a ticket in the state's west.

Wind farm developments in Victoria will now have to have noise levels checked by an independent auditor, before and after construction.

There's an inextricable link between Australia's first political assassination attempt and a set of heavy, bronze bells that sit at the top of Ballarat's town hall.

After a horrific crash, surgeons told rally driver Grant Walker to quit. Instead he teamed up with co-driver Stephanie Richards who is 41 years younger than he is to compete at the top level.

Catholic parishioners in Ballarat have lined up to cut symbolic ribbons off their cathedral's iron fence in a move described as disrespectful to sexual abuse victims so soon after the royal commission findings.

A Ballarat couple have been banned from owning dogs for 10 years, after animal welfare groups found seven puppies crammed into a cage built for just one.

For centuries, aprons have led secret lives as household status symbols, for religious rituals and in dangerous labour.

Police are preparing a report for the coroner after a missing Ballarat gold prospector was found dead yesterday.

Two people have been taken to hospital after a house fire near Ballarat.

Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning is carrying out planned burns around Ballarat and surrounding areas today.

Richie Porte blasted back to form by beating a world-class field in the national time trial.