30/09/2002 | BALLARAT nurses are undergoing training to prevent themselves from being injured while on the job.
30/09/2002 | A BROWN Hill couple was terrorised in their home early yesterday morning after confronting an intruder who threatened to kill them.
30/09/2002 | It would make no sense for the Federal Government to send back to East Timor those refugees in Ballarat who have yet to complete the educational qualifications they have started here.
30/09/2002 | FORMER St Patrick's College oarsman James Marburg returns to the waters of Lake Wendouree this week in the Australian University Rowing Championships.
30/09/2002 | A FAMILY of four is homeless after fire ravaged their Creswick home yesterday morning.
30/09/2002 | BUSHFIRE management is one way Ballarat could assist struggling communities in East Timor, according to a delegation member visiting the world's newest country.
30/09/2002 | FIVE of Ballarat's most hazardous intersections will be made safer under a $475,000 Backspot Program announced by the State Government.
30/09/2002 | THE BALLARAT City Council has called on the State Government to reaffirm its commitment to the Regional Fast Train Project.
30/09/2002 | ARSON is suspected as the cause of a fire that gutted a shed in Elsworth St East on Saturday.
30/09/2002 | Being a police officer is one of the most thankless jobs a person can do.
30/09/2002 | THE OPPORTUNITY to compete on a world stage has been enough to lure eight former Ballarat rowers and their coxswain out of retirement.
30/09/2002 | THE BALLARAT Yacht Club is calling on past and present members to attend its 125th anniversary reunion dinner on November 8.
30/09/2002 | IT WAS a somewhat subdued grand final day on Saturday with most people seeming to prefer staying at home to watch the big game than venturing out in the wet and windy conditions.
30/09/2002 | BALLARAT'S fast train can come near its 64-minute objective without uprooting the lives of landowners at Millbrook and Dunnstown, the landowners have said.
30/09/2002 | THE IMPORTANCE of life-long learning to a community's social and economic growth was the focus of the 2002 Australian Learning Communities Conference held in Ballarat at the weekend.
30/09/2002 | BALLARAT joined those from across Victoria who honoured the 137 police officers killed in the line of duty since 1853.
30/09/2002 | BALLARAT'S East Timorese refugees fear they could get their marching orders after the Immigration Department rejecting every one of the first 168 refugee applications for protection visas.
28/09/2002 | GOLDEN Point Cricket Club has appointed junior coach and former playing star Stephen Parker as its senior coach.
27/09/2002 | BALLARAT Golf Club player Chase Williams won the under-16 section of round one of the Aaron Baddeley World Junior Championship tournament held at Ballarat Golf Course yesterday.