31/12/2004 | PLAGUES of locusts are expected to drift further south next week and could reach as far as Ballarat, experts have warned.
31/12/2004 | BALLARAT residents will kick up their heels in a feast of colour, action, and excitement with New Year's Eve celebrations tonight.
31/12/2004 | THE Ballarat community has rallied behind Asia's tsunami victims with several fundraising campaigns organised to assist the global relief effort.
31/12/2004 | BALLARAT travel agents have been forced to reschedule holiday-makers bound for tsunami-devastated regions as the Asian humanitarian crisis deepens.
31/12/2004 | MORE than 30 Ballarat health professionals could be heading to the tsunami devastated region of South-East Asia following a call for volunteers.
31/12/2004 | SOVEREIGN Hill will launch its school holiday program on Monday.
31/12/2004 | STAWELL Gift winner Andrew McManus has been given the backmark for tomorrow's Maryborough Gift.
31/12/2004 | DAYLESFORD trainer Bob Conroy will have the rare distinction of lining up four starters in a feature final at Moonee Valley harness races tomorrow night.
31/12/2004 | Revellers cannot be blamed for energetically enjoying themselves tonight as they see out the old year and welcome in the new.
30/12/2004 | THE man who brought thousands of Ballarat babies into the world, Dr John Garland Griffiths, has died aged 75.
30/12/2004 | IT is hard to know how Australian authorities could have reacted any better to the massive disaster which has struck its Asian neighbours.
29/12/2004 | BALLARAT Pride coach Jo Dash is determined her team will reach the Netball Victoria State League division one finals in 2005.
29/12/2004 | BALLARAT sprinter Luke Madden will use the Maryborough Highland Gathering meeting on New Year's Day as a springboard into an intense campaign leading up to the Ballarat Gift in February.
29/12/2004 | IT WAS a very merry Christmas for local retailers and traders with shoppers filling stores across the city according to Ballarat's three centre managers.
29/12/2004 | A SLEEP-IN has saved the lives of Thai siblings in Phuket, much to the relief of their Ballarat family.
29/12/2004 | THERE has been renewed calls for an ambulance station to be set-up in Sebastopol due to concerns delays could place lives at risk.
29/12/2004 | HEALTH professionals from the Ballarat community are being called on to join one of the largest relief efforts seen in recent history.
29/12/2004 | THE Victorian Government has finally confirmed that $100 million Hollywood movie Charlotte's Web will be filmed near Ballan.
28/12/2004 | SEISMOLOGISTS are convinced that the absence of a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean could have contributed to the scale of the Boxing Day disaster.
28/12/2004 | FORMER English cricket dynamo Derek Randall does not believe the success of the Australian Test team is any threat to the health of international competition.