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UPDATE: Train hits dumped motorcycle
Emergency services have been called to a crash involving a Ballarat-bound train and an unconfirmed single-person vehicle.
How you photographed Rainbow Serpent Festival 2016
What better way to depict the atmosphere of a festival than through the eyes of the punters living ...
Hepburn Shire asks for your help
The Hepburn Shire Council is again putting the call-out to residents to play an active role in shaping ...
Barkly could be put to use within a month
Ballarat Secondary College’s Barkly Street campus could be put to use within one month.
Untold stories of early Chinese settlers
The city’s latest exhibition is like a patchwork quilt of stories of the country’s earliest Chinese settlers which ...
They shall grow not old
As the Ballarat RSL turns 100, the current executive members gave a series of interviews to The Courier ...
New buses come rolling in
Fifteen "simpler, more direct" bus routes will begin operating on Sunday.
Push to change the date for Ballarat
Gunditjmara man Jon Kanoa says so long as Australia Day is on January 26, the day will be ...
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Perhaps Malcolm Turnbull is the right man in the wrong job
Call it a blinding moment of clarity – if that's not too grandiose. Malcolm Turnbull was addressing a ...
Woman, 53, charged with driving wrong way on freeway in Laverton
An Altona woman has been charged after allegedly driving the wrong way on the Princes Freeway in Melbourne's ...
Three dead after failed 15-person river crossing in Northern Territory
NT Police confirm a woman and two men have died after being reported missing, following a failed crossing ...
Man's body found at Chelsea beach
The body of a man has been found at Chelsea beach on Saturday.
House, eight cars destroyed in grassfire at Heathcote
A house and eight cars have been destroyed in a grassfire at Heathcote on Saturday, which is believed to have ...
Train hits motorcycle dumped on tracks at Ballan
Police are searching for a man who dumped his motorbike in front of a V/Line train at Ballan ...
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Nice media conference but the Trump-Putin agenda dwarfs Theresa May's to-do list
Surely she didn't believe Trump's commitment to NATO. Nonetheless, it would have been useful for her to get ...
Alleged child sex predator Peter Scully dealt legal blow as police apprehend key witness
The former live-in partner and co-accused of alleged child sex predator and "dark web" mastermind Peter Scully has ...
Terror financing expert Loretta Napoleoni on rise of kidnapping and why Donald Trump might be the cure
"Trump, you know he may turn out to be the bad guy that solves the problem." Loretta Napoleoni, ...
Donald Trump could 'do something mad' and provoke war, says ex-military commander
Donald Trump may prove "deeply dangerous" for the rest of the world if confronted militarily, says the UK's ...
Business
McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks: the fast food giants fighting for CBD real estate
Fast food restaurant Hungry Jacks will open another city store in Elizabeth Street after two of its Swanston ...
Fresh plans for St Kilda Novotel hotel site
One of Melbourne's most historically significant sites – where the St Moritz ice skating rink stood for decades ...
Australia is investing billions in madman Donald Trump
Donald Trump's statement that the US should have taken Iraq's oil after invading their country in 2003 is ...
High-rise tentacle tower plan for Melbourne CBA site replaced with 'polite' 22-storey building
One of Melbourne's largest and busiest intersections has been saved from an imposing, alien-like tower – just.
Investors tipped to pump more than $30 billion into bricks and mortar this year
The new year has started with a bang, with big sales being promoted as investors circle the higher-yielding ...
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Perhaps Malcolm Turnbull is the right man in the wrong job
Call it a blinding moment of clarity – if that's not too grandiose. Malcolm Turnbull was addressing a ...
Malcolm Turnbull confident about US refugee deal despite Trump order
Turnbull government pins hopes for US refugee deal on potential clause buried deep within Donald Trump's controversial anti-Muslim ...
Julie Bishop speaks to US Vice President Mike Pence, refuses to express confidence in refugee swap
Foreign Minister has her first high-level interaction with President Donald Trump's administration.