A metal detectorist has unearthed "the find of a lifetime" hidden under a rotting log and three feet of dirt. Luke Phillips, who runs the popular YouTube channel Dig It Detecting, was out hunting ...

You might think you know Ballarat, but the historic city is changing all the time. Your next visit might mean recently opened restaurants, new (to you) activities, or undiscovered side quests that ...

Now an art gallery in the regional Victorian city of Ballarat is hoping it has struck gold with a new exhibition centred around not an artist, but one of the main tools of the trade: the guitar.

Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told ... First Nations people in the gold-mining town, Ballarat, in Victoria’s west.