1/10/2008 | YOU may know Rob Gell as one of television's high profile weather presenters.
30/09/2008 | BREAKING NEWS: A BELMONT man will spend two years in a youth training centre over the bashing of former Damascus College student, Jon Hucker.
30/09/2008 | 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.
30/09/2008 | 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?
30/09/2008 | NORTH Ballarat footballers will be honoured with a civic reception to be held by the Ballarat City Council.
30/09/2008 | 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.
30/09/2008 | 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.
30/09/2008 | 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.
30/09/2008 | 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.
30/09/2008 | 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.
30/09/2008 | 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.
30/09/2008 | DAVID Baird sat in the front row under a tent erected to protect the elderly men from yesterday's rain.
Seats had also been brought in to ensure Mr Baird and his fellow veterans were comfortable as they waited for Federal Veterans' Affairs Minister Alan Griffin to utter the words many in Ballarat had been waiting for years to hear.
30/09/2008 | BALLARAT Pride will officially sign up with the Victorian Netball League today.
Pride will be one of just 10 teams in the revamped state league competition to begin next year.
29/09/2008 | Ballarat Wildlife Park is looking for a new name for one of its newest residents
29/09/2008 | BALLARAT'S Avenue of Honour restoration program reached the halfway mark atthe weekend.
29/09/2008 | DAYLESFORD could have its own community bank in over a year after strong support resulted in a steering committee being established.
29/09/2008 | PRINCESS the large pink pig rolled into the city last week to raise funds for children with life-threatening illnesses.
29/09/2008 | MEET Trixie and Felix, just two of the four baby quolls recently born at the Ballarat Wildlife Park.
29/09/2008 | FOR a seven-year-old mad Hawthorn supporter, there's no greater thrill than going to your team's grand final and seeing it win.
29/09/2008 | TWO people were cut from their cars within 90 minutes of each other in separate accidents near Ballarat yesterday morning.