31/07/2003 | The Siberian Cossacks are getting ready to perform their spectacular dance in Ballarat. KAREN DAVIS reports
31/07/2003 | Film critic DAVID ELLERY says the latest Aussie attempt at comedy with "Bad Eggs" falls a little flat.
31/07/2003 | Psychologist TUNDE MEIKLE writes about the ongoing quest to produce artificial intelligence.
31/07/2003 | THE SECOND year of The Courier Charity Fund kicked off last night with more than $60,000 raised at a charity dinner.
31/07/2003 | THE CURTAIN will come down on one of Ballarat's greatest sporting achievements on Sunday.
31/07/2003 | AUSTRALIA will be looking to upset New Zealand's clean sweep of the three-part badminton Whyte Trophy in Ballarat tonight.
31/07/2003 | "HEARTLESS thieves" ransacked five cars at the Buninyong cemetery while their owners were attending a burial on Tuesday.
31/07/2003 | THE government's bushfires inquiry moved to Ballarat yesterday as public hearings into the devasting summer blazes continued.
31/07/2003 | LAL LAL Falls could be reopened for the first time since a freak rock slide killed two Melton girls and injured another 13 years ago.
31/07/2003 | BALLARAT Health Services has received $84.3 million in funding during the 2003/04 financial year, according to the State Government.
31/07/2003 | A BALACLAVA-CLAD man wielding a pistol last night terrorised a female shop assistant when he held up a Delacombe milk bar.
31/07/2003 | THE AFL is taking a bit of a gamble with the introduction of Sunday night football in 2004.
30/07/2003 | The Courier's deputy editor ANGELA CAREY explores the issues surroundng the detention and trial of accused traitor David Hicks.
30/07/2003 | MICHAEL RUFFLES explores the dangers involved in unsafe texting.
30/07/2003 | BALLARAT is losing patience with the State Government's apparent inaction on the city's Learning Exchange.
30/07/2003 | REPORTED crime dropped by almost six per cent in Ballarat last financial year, but the number of unsolved crimes is up.
30/07/2003 | BALLARAT horse racing trainer Darren Weir yesterday joined an elite band when he had his 100th win of the 2002-03 season.
30/07/2003 | FORMER London-based tennis coach Virgil Gill will complete the third part of a Tennis Victoria pilot program in Ballarat today.
30/07/2003 | A NIGHT of magic, mystery and imagination will be presented tonight as The Australian Ballet Dancers Company performs The Nutcracker at Her Majesty's Theatre.
30/07/2003 | TEMPERATURES were icy in Ballarat yesterday, but only a few flakes of snow drifted into the city.