Cameron Best

It is fast, furious, dynamic, energetic — all the things Australians love about sport. And yet handball is almost unknown in this country.

Competition is hot at the Bells Beach Australian Indigenous Surfing Titles, but the event is also about Aboriginal culture and dispelling the myth that Indigenous people do not surf.

Geelong's Deakin University strikes a $58 million deal with three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond to license a new carbon fibre manufacturing technology.

A man is sentenced to 12 months in prison for illegally marrying a 14-year-old bride in an Islamic wedding in Melbourne last year.

The fairytale return to Geelong still hasn't sunk in for Gary Ablett Jr, who says his famous father is thrilled to have him home.

The family of Rohit Kaul, who was struck by a car outside Flinders Street train station while on the phone to his young son, describes their desperate bid to find out his fate amid the chaos.

After arriving on the professional surfing circuit as a wiry teenager in 2001, Mick Fanning brought a new level of competitiveness to the sport and took the surfing world along for the ride, writes Cameron Best.

About 30 water fountains are shut off while Barwon Water and the City of Greater Geelong investigate the cause of the contamination.

There's been an unlikely resurgence in manufacturing jobs in Victoria, with more people now employed in the sector than before the shutdown of the automotive industry.

Victorian authorities exhume a dead humpback whale they had earlier buried near a popular Victorian surf beach after fears the foul-smelling carcass would attract sharks to the area.