28/02/2002 | Thousands of angry logging industry workers from across Victoria, including many from the Central Highlands region, have converged on the steps of Parliament House, protesting against the State Government's proposed logging reforms.
28/02/2002 | A LOOSELY-scribbled signature on a glove box in a Mercedes Benz by Australian Grand Prix debutante Mark Webber has new-found significance for a Ballarat car dealer.
28/02/2002 | College year 12 student Tim Pollard has been selected in the School Sports Australia athletics team at the International School Sport Federation's World School Games in Caen, France.
28/02/2002 | FRIDAY, October 26, 2001 was already a dirty day in Ballarat. It was wet and miserable - and it took a turn for the chaotic when the panic of the US attacks spread to our community.
28/02/2002 | VICTORIA'S peak forest industry employer group will actively support and participate in today's timber industry union protest on the steps of State Parliament.
28/02/2002 | SOVEREIGN Hill's education department will incorporate the history of the local indigenous people into its curriculum starting later this year.
28/02/2002 | TWO Ballarat women have made military history, with the landmark appointment of one to a formerly male-dominated position, and the other being awarded the coveted Sword of Honour.
28/02/2002 | A BALLARAT man was found guilty yesterday of intentionally stabbing his victim with a kitchen knife outside his Doveton Cres home last year.
28/02/2002 | BALLARAT motorists will not have to pay for parking on Sundays in the central business area but a two-hour time limit will apply between 11am and 5.30pm.
28/02/2002 | INTERNET access provider Ballarat Online has closed its doors for the final time.
28/02/2002 | INTERNET access provider Ballarat Online has closed its doors for the final time.
27/02/2002 | A GRAND auction and celebrity sports dinner will be held at the George Hotel on Friday to raise money for the "Wozzles Widers", who will race in the Murray to Moyne cycle race next month.
27/02/2002 | BALLARAT Mustang touring car competitor Greg Nicholls has received a last minute entry into the historic race section of the Australian Grand Prix tomorrow.
27/02/2002 | THE most significant achievement of Monday's Population Summit in Melbourne was in putting the questions of how many of us there will be and, equally importantly, who we will be in 50 years time back on the agenda.
27/02/2002 | BALLARAT city council will receive reports tonight into the October 26 evacuation of Arrandale House in Bath Lane that could cost the city more than $70,000.
27/02/2002 | CENTRAL Highlands Water will construct a $700,000 water softening plant to alleviate community concerns over hard water in the Forest Hill water supply area.
27/02/2002 | A STAGGERING 1000 per cent increase in insurance premiums threatens the future of Ballarat's Blue Light discos.
27/02/2002 | VICTORIA'S Minister for State and Regional Development John Brumby has made an urgent request for regional project ideas from his colleagues in an attempt to offset job losses caused by the quota cutback in the logging industry.
27/02/2002 | A FIRE that destroyed a shed yesterday morning is being treated as suspicious by police and the Country Fire Authority.
27/02/2002 | WHEN Ballarat workers were filing into work at 9am yesterday, Pastor Bill Sutcliffe was preparing to repeat history, setting off from the Ballarat Town Hall on an epic 115-km run to Melbourne.