29/11/2006 | BALLARAT Olympic swimmer Shayne Reese is out to emulate her previous world championships performances and go one better to win individual gold.
29/11/2006 | BALLARAT Miners will be without point guard Braith Cox and captain Ryan Stevens in the South East Australian Basketball League next year.
29/11/2006 | GOLD FEVER will hit Sovereign Hill this weekend at the Australasian Gold Panning Championships.
29/11/2006 | A SUSPECTED gas leak forced the evacuation of the State Government offices in Ballarat yesterday morning.
29/11/2006 | RIPON MLA Joe Helper was yesterday handed the plum ministerial posting of agriculture in Premier Steve Bracks' new-look Cabinet.
29/11/2006 | TOUGHER water restrictions will be introduced throughout the region.
29/11/2006 | DAVID Vendy was last night re-elected as Ballarat mayor for a seventh term, with Wayne Rigg re-appointed as his deputy.
29/11/2006 | SCHOOLIES Week turned to horror for a Mt Clear teenager after an assault in Lorne early yesterday morning left him clinging to life in Melbourne hospital.
29/11/2006 | NORTH Ballarat has lost the battle to retain best and fairest Brent LeCras for the 2007 Victorian Football League season.
29/11/2006 | CHRIS Maple is the new coach of North Ballarat Rebels in the TAC Cup under-18 football competition.
29/11/2006 | HMAS Ballarat sailors will join the festive spirit of Christmas and strengthen their ties to the city when they are welcomed to Ballarat next week.
29/11/2006 | A SPATE of water thefts across Golden Plains Shire has the council reviewing how it makes the precious commodity available to drought-stricken residents.
29/11/2006 | IT'S time to get out your hats and sunnies again, with the temperature set to hit 31C in Ballarat tomorrow.
29/11/2006 | BALLARAT'S two state MPs were overlooked yesterday when Premier Steve Bracks propelled Ripon MP Joe Helper into his new-look Cabinet to oversee the Ballarat region.
29/11/2006 | TIRED truck drivers were targeted in a police blitz on the Western Hwy yesterday.
29/11/2006 | ORGANISERS of the Eureka Dawn Lantern Walk will dedicate Sunday's walk to suspected al-Qaeda terrorist David Hicks.
28/11/2006 | RIPON MLA Joe Helper has undertaken that he will seek a meeting with Central Highlands Water to express community frustrations over Smythesdale's non-existent sewerage infrastructure.
28/11/2006 | BALLARAT City councillors were involved in cloak and dagger talks yesterday as the battle to become the city's next mayor hots up.
28/11/2006 | A SEBASTOPOL man has been branded as a "scourge' on the community after trafficking almost 80 grams of marijuana to an undercover police operative.
28/11/2006 | LAKE Wendouree's black swans have taken to their new surroundings like ducks to water.