Laura Mayers

Police allege the 39-year-old man filmed underneath the skirts of around 150 girls in Ballarat and Melbourne and may face up to 300 charges altogether.

The state has already endured two months of fires, but authorities warn there are likely to be more with tough conditions forecast for autumn.

From 1961 to 1990, the Catholic Church shunted priest Gerald Ridsdale to 16 different parishes across Australia, enabling him to sexually abuse at least 72 children. 

A Victorian coroner finds the 2018 deaths of two men killed when a trench they were working on collapsed in Ballarat could have been avoided.

Victoria Police allegedly found phones, cash and 10kg of meth in a car driven by a 20-year-old who is expected to face court today.

A western Victorian man has been denied bail after being charged with filming intimate images of more than 100 young girls in Melbourne and Ballarat.

The popular tourist town has been closed for 18 days as fire ripped through 76,000 hectares of national park and farmland, costing businesses $1.9 million per day. 

Cheryl Lucas, 38, appears in Ballarat Magistrates Court, following the death of a 47-year-old man at a Mount Helen property on Saturday.

Emergency authorities say initial impact assessments indicate one residential property and seven other structures have been destroyed by bushfires in western Victoria.

Properties have come under threat near Victoria's Grampians National Park after a bushfire ripped through more than 5,000 hectares of land in just 24 hours.