28/02/2003 | Heidi Jarvis owns her own marketing and event management firm Organised Success. She spoke to KAREN DAVIS about her community involvement, her love of clothes and pushing a recalcitrant motor vehicle around Europe.
28/02/2003 | Don't go thinking that scrabble is child's play. Story JULIA HODGES, picture LACHLAN BENCE.
28/02/2003 | With the 2003 Ballarat Begonia Festival ready to begin, KIM QUINLAN meets some of the characters who make the festival successful.
28/02/2003 | Tv critic DAVID ELLERY reviews the latest British comedy ``The Office'' which has arrived in Australia amid enormous praise.
27/02/2003 | The eviction of Labor MP Kirstie Marshall from State Parliament this week was like a red rag to a bull for women's rights groups around the country.
27/02/2003 | VICTORIA and New South Wales are the two states dominating the Under-20 Australian Championships and the Ivor Burge Championships for intellectually disabled.
27/02/2003 | EUREKA won a third consecutive Ballarat Regional Athletic Centre division one inter-club premiership at Llanberris on Tuesday night Eureka edged out YCW by one point.
27/02/2003 | BALLARAT'S Begonia Festival kicks off today with opening celebrations that pay tribute to the begonia's South American origins.
27/02/2003 | BALLARAT Health Services has recorded a $7.1 million debt and displays signs of financial difficulty, according to a report released yesterday by the Auditor General.
27/02/2003 | YANDOIT grandmother Maria Rossiter is preparing to lose her locks to support the Leukaemia Foundation's World's Greatest Shave for a Cure.
27/02/2003 | WORKS to modify four intersections in Sturt St started this week.
Modifications to intersections with Sturt St at Lyons, Ascot, Talbot and Ripon streets are expected to take a week each.
27/02/2003 | A 28-YEAR-OLD Smythes Creek man died yesterday morning when the motorcycle he was riding allegedly struck a 4WD utility in Ring Rd, Alfredton.
27/02/2003 | BALLARAT East MLA Geoff Howard said he had no problems with an MP breastfeeding her newborn baby in Parliament.
27/02/2003 | Film reviewer DAVID ELLERY went along to watch ``Chicago', one of the year's biggest films.
27/02/2003 | One of Australia's best circuses has arrived in Ballarat and is setting up shop for a grand performance. KAREN DAVIS reports
27/02/2003 | KAREN DAVIS previews this weekend's Ballarat Woodworkers Guild Expo at St Patrick's Hall.
27/02/2003 | A host of activities has been planned for this year's festival, starting this weekend. KAREN DAVIS reports.
27/02/2003 | As the world focuses on the worsening stand-off in Iraq, it seems timely and wise to focus our gaze a little closer to home.
27/02/2003 | THE City of Ballarat will close sports ovals which fail to meet a stringent safety checklist in the face of tighter water restrictions and one of the worst dry spells on record.
27/02/2003 | The immediate future of Ballarat Neighborhood Cable Miners power forward Jesse Ratliff is on hold.