31/03/2004 | AUSTRALIANS are quick to put sportspeople on a pedestal.
30/03/2004 | BALLARAT 21-year-old Shayne Reese last night swam her way into the Australian team for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
30/03/2004 | THE WORLD Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships will be contested in the Ballarat region in October.
30/03/2004 | THERE can be no denying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission has had its fair share of problems in past years.
30/03/2004 | THE train driver involved in last November's horror train derailment at Ballan has yet to return to work more than four months after the incident.
30/03/2004 | WHAT a difference 150 years makes.
That is the simple message of these two dramatic images linked by geography but a century-and-a-half apart in time.
30/03/2004 | MEMBERS of the Pittong Action Group were dismayed and disgruntled after being told yesterday's 3pm meeting with Victorian Premier Steve Bracks to discuss the Pittong Toxic Waste Facility site, had to be rescheduled.
30/03/2004 | A BALLARAT City Council delegation will meet with Veterans' Affairs Minister Danna Vale today to seek support for the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial.
30/03/2004 | Alleged robber to make his own way to Ballarat
30/03/2004 | A 50-YEAR-OLD Scarsdale man was killed in what emergency service personnel have described as one of the worst accidents in recent memory.
30/03/2004 | CENTRE Amanda Jakiel is in doubt for the two Ballarat Lady Miners South East Australian Basketball League games this weekend.
30/03/2004 | BACCHUS Marsh driver Amy Tubbs is a young woman in a hurry in harness racing.
30/03/2004 | MUSEUM Victoria will lend a collection of artefacts to the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in December to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade.
30/03/2004 | BALLARAT City Council is offering property owners thousands of dollars in heritage grants as incentive to rejuvenate the city's historic streetscapes.
30/03/2004 | A COURT yesterday heard how a Redan man hunted down and assaulted a teenager who he claimed had kicked his puppy.
30/03/2004 | THE Country Fire Authority has issued a reminder to residents that fire restrictions are still in force and warned people must remain aware of continuing fire risks.
30/03/2004 | BALLARAT detectives flew to Adelaide yesterday armed with a warrant to extradite a man wanted for armed robbery.
30/03/2004 | THE sound of rain on dry tin roofs was a joy for Ballarat residents in the early hours of yesterday morning.
30/03/2004 | IT'S the question dividing the nation - should Ian Thorpe be allowed to compete in his pet event, the 400m, at Athens after his fall from grace in a Sydney trial on Saturday?
29/03/2004 | BALLARAT Indoor Red has won the Peter Keller Cup, becoming the 2003-04 Ballarat and District Tennis Federation champions.