Matt Neal is the editor at ABC South West Victoria and Ballarat. He's been a reporter based in Warrnambool, Victoria since 2001.
When he died in January, Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst had been racing to try to finish a book about his career as a songwriter.
A cold case murder trial has finally been brought to a close, after a Supreme Court jury determined a former police officer murdered Christopher Jarvis in 2006.
It was a day that started under sunny skies and ended under a pall of horror. Within moments of the attack on Helen Haines, brave locals rushed to help their popular local MP.
Two of rock's biggest albums, Revolver and Pet Sounds, are turning 60 this year, but there's so much more to the sounds of 1966.
This week, the film will conclude its long journey to Aussie cinemas, having previously looked deader than a cartoon coyote trapped under a comically over-sized boulder.
The state of Victoria's roads is again in the spotlight after a motorcyclist died after reportedly hitting a pothole at the weekend.
While the tiny town of Creswick sleeps, locals say criminals are roaming the streets in the knowledge police are a long way away.
Advocates say that unproven charges such as those against councillors at Hepburn Shire, triggering automatic stand-down laws, can bring any other council across the state to a shuddering halt.
Three more councillors at Hepburn Shire Council have been served with criminal charges by a private citizen, leaving only two councillors in office.
Climbing Victoria says proposed changes to the Mount Arapiles Dyurrite management plan will be a compromise between climbers and traditional owners built on "trust".
The mayor of Hepburn Shire in Victoria is the third council representative to be charged by the same resident via a rare "private prosecution".
Police have charged a 16-year-old boy who was on bail over the stabbing of a homeless man in Bendigo on Thursday night.
A Victorian state MP's use of an apparently AI-generated image raises questions about whether AI has any place in politics.
The federal government's $2 billion lawsuit against "forever chemicals" manufacturer 3M has Fire Rescue Victoria considering whether it should relaunch its own legal proceedings.
The music industry is always in a state of flux, but what was happening in 1976 was akin to the dinosaurs looking up and seeing a meteor on the way.
From Taylor Swift to Cher, Paul Dempsey's cover versions have been lauded. But does he have a secret weapon to making the perfect cover?
Police say if there is sufficient evidence, a man accused of attacking people at a community dinner could be charged under hate speech laws.
Who is better at predicting this year's Oscar winners — a mathematician or a critic?
While council pools across Victoria face threats of closure, residents of a rural town beat the odds to save theirs. Now they have to prove a community-run model can work.
Victoria's Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has been contacted after a number of junior netball teams were axed from the Ballarat Football Netball league due to a lack of footballers.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is getting the live score treatment, but not in the way you might expect.
A Victorian community group promised its local shire a new pool would not cost it money once it was built. In less than three months, the promise was broken.
Former ATSIC leader Geoff Clark was jailed in 2024, yet some members of his community say legal issues linger on.
A landlord has been ordered to stand trial over the cold case death of his tenant Christopher Jarvis, who disappeared from his home near Warrnambool 20 years ago.
Here's what might go down when triple j unveils the Hottest 100 of 2025 this Saturday.
