31/08/2001 | BALLARAT police will urge second-hand car dealers to fit engine immobilisers to cars on the market in a bid to curb rising car theft figures.
31/08/2001 | IN THE YEAR celebrating the 150th anniversary of gold discovery in Ballarat, it is appropriate a group of ''miners'' is again staking a major claim in the city.
31/08/2001 | MINOR premiers and nominal premiership favourites Buninyong make their 2001 finals debut in tomorrow's second semi final at Dunnstown.
31/08/2001 | HE was a 70s icon, a memory of youth associated with a more innocent and possibly happier age.
31/08/2001 | MARCELLO Colasante, the 1980s bank manager, probably did not look much like a candidate for priesthood.
31/08/2001 | A ROSS CREEK man who pleaded guilty to cultivating up to $80,000 worth of cannabis on his eight hectare property was sentenced to 12 months' jail yesterday.
31/08/2001 | CHILDREN played in an Alfredton park yesterday while only a few metres away their parents were campaigning to save the reserve.
31/08/2001 | A DOWNTURN in demand for brake pads in the United States has forced Ballarat's Bendix Mintex plant to cut 20 jobs.
31/08/2001 | BALLARAT'S spiritual leaders yesterday criticised the Federal Government's actions over the refugee crisis off Christmas Island.
31/08/2001 | IMMIGRATION Minister Phillip Ruddock will host a public meeting on immigration and refugees in Ballarat in two weeks.
30/08/2001 | BALLARAT Table Tennis Association players have featured prominently in Victorian team selection for the Australian titles.
30/08/2001 | CENTRAL Highlands Football League officials will today inspect this weekend's finals venues at Bungaree and Dunnstown after substantial rain across the region.
30/08/2001 | TODAY is a long awaited date in the history of the former Portugese colony of East Timor.
30/08/2001 | OLDER problem gamblers in Ballarat have been placed in the spotlight in the second phase of the State Government's campaign to curb problem gambling.
30/08/2001 | FOR THE 140 sacked Nestle workers in Maryborough, it's a case of wait and see after a meeting between the union and management yesterday.
30/08/2001 | LOCAL businessman Andrew Collins has become the first person to throw his name into the Liberal Party's preselection battle for the federal seat of Ballarat.
30/08/2001 | BALLARAT is poised to benefit from a new Federal Government funding package for regional Australia, Ballarat MHR Michael Ronaldson said yesterday.
30/08/2001 | BALLARAT'S opposing federal political figures have joined forces in support of the Federal Government's decision to refuse entry to the 438 asylum seekers stranded on a Norwegian container ship.
30/08/2001 | THIEVES stole thousands of dollars worth of diamond rings from a jewellery store yesterday.
29/08/2001 | State Government intervention has failed to calm the battle between Skilled Equipment Manufacturing and the United Firefighters' Union with both parties ingnoring calls for peace.