30 Sep 08 | JON Hucker is a tall young man who stands a full head above the crowd and has the broad shoulders of a keen footy player.
30 Sep 08 | DEBTS are about to be paid in Port Melbourne.
30 Sep 08 | FOR three North Ballarat Rebels, the next three days will be intense.
30 Sep 08 | IN A bid to lure more female talent into cricket a new junior clinic has begun earlier than usual.
30 Sep 08 | BALLARAT has received less than half the September average rainfall in what has been a bad start to spring.
30 Sep 08 | THE confidence of Ballarat residents has no doubt been falling along with their super funds as markets around the world continue to stumble.
30 Sep 08 | WATER from Ballarat Goldfields could help see Lake Wendouree full by 2010, two years ahead of schedule.
30 Sep 08 | A Ballarat carer who touched the breasts of a disabled woman while he was showering her pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of indecent assault.
30 Sep 08 | THE death of a Stawell teenager after a fight at a party two years ago was tragic and heartbreaking but was not manslaughter, a court in Ballarat heard yesterday.
30 Sep 08 | YOU may know Rob Gell as one of television's high profile weather presenters.
30 Sep 08 | BREAKING NEWS: A BELMONT man will spend two years in a youth training centre over the bashing of former Damascus College student, Jon Hucker.
30 Sep 08 | RYLEY STUHLDREIER came close to conquering the Oceania Karate Championships, but is now aiming higher.
The 12-year-old Bacchus Marsh black belt holder placed second in the individual kumite, and gold in the team event.
30 Sep 08 | The Australian stockmarket has plunged, losing more
than $60 billion in the first half hour of trading today. Are you worried about the US financial crisis? How would a sustained fall on the stockmarket in Australia affect you?
30 Sep 08 | NORTH Ballarat footballers will be honoured with a civic reception to be held by the Ballarat City Council.
30 Sep 08 | A FIRE caused $50,000 damage to a Wendouree house early on Sunday morning.
The blaze, believed to be deliberately lit, caused extensive damage to the loungeroom of the Marigold St home.
30 Sep 08 | DEMOLITION crews at the former Maxi Foods shopping complex in Creswick Rd are calling in the big guns.
A 40-tonne excavator is being brought in this week to help pull down the outside of the building after internal demolition works have been completed.
30 Sep 08 | AFTER three months of online voting, the Ballarat region has polled strongly in the RACV top 101 tourist destinations count.
More than 72,000 hits on the RACV website contributed to the voting that saw the Royal Mail Hotel in Dunkeld finish in ninth place, the highest of any attraction in the Ballarat region.
30 Sep 08 | POLICE and their families gathered in Ballarat yesterday to remember colleagues killed in the line of duty.
About 100 people attended a service at the York Street Church of Christ to mark National Police Remembrance Day and Blue Ribbon Day.
30 Sep 08 | A BALLARAT man who allegedly threatened to kill his girlfriend's mother was refused bail yesterday.
The 24-year-old is also accused of punching his girlfriend's aunt in the head causing her to suffer multiple fractures, the Ballarat Magistrates Court heard.
30 Sep 08 | A RADICAL plan that would see new mothers and fathers claim almost $12,000 in taxpayer-funded baby leave is a step forward for Ballarat families.
Under the Productivity Commission's proposed scheme released yesterday, mothers would be able to take 18 weeks' paid parental leave and fathers two weeks, or vice-versa.