31 Jan 09 | A GRASS fire caused train services from Melbourne to Ballarat to be stopped last night.
The small fire broke out at 6.50pm on the railway track at Ingliston near Ballan.
31 Jan 09 | WEBBCONA gave the highly rated Queenscliff a scare in Ballarat-Geelong premier bowls at Queenscliff on Saturday.
Although, in the end second-placed Queenscliff appeared a comfortable nine-shot winner as it took away an invaluable 16 premiership points, Webbcona was not too far away.
31 Jan 09 | TWO of Ballarat Cricket Association's most experienced players hit centuries as the bat dominated the ball in the firsts competition on Saturday.
31 Jan 09 | BALLARAT ambos saw a two per cent increase in their average daily work load last week as the hot weather caused a spike in emergency call outs.
31 Jan 09 | FIRST it was extreme heat, now it is unprecedented dry.
In the same week decades-old heat records were being threatened, Ballarat has chalked up its driest January since official weather records were started in 1908.
31 Jan 09 | MISTER Swinger confirmed his arrival as a big-time player on the Australasian Grand Circuit by capturing the group one $125,000 PETstock Ballarat Pacing Cup, 2710 metres, on Saturday night.
31 Jan 09 | NORTH Melbourne players will be comfortable with whatever temperatures Ballarat serves up at their two-day AFL community camp.
31 Jan 09 | FOX hunters will be rewarded in a new initiative by the Brumby Government.
The Hunter Reward program will be managed by Field and Game Australia and Sporting Shooters Associations of Australia who will actively reward their members for participating in fox control activities.
31 Jan 09 | TODAY marks the start of a new era for St John of God Hospital.
The hospital's recently completed new ward building will be open to patients for the first time from this morning.
The building's six wards, two on each of its three levels, will open in stages this week.
30 Jan 09 | ATTENDANCE figures at Ballarat pools have doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in response to this week's heatwave.
30 Jan 09 | LAST month was boom time for Ballarat's pubs and clubs, with a record amount dropped into pokies.
30 Jan 09 | BALLARAT district potato growers have been offered a 24 per cent increase to supply potatoes to McCain Foods this year.
30 Jan 09 | DREW Petrie is ready to take a lead role in North Melbourne's push to foster Ballarat as a regional homeland for the AFL club.
30 Jan 09 | AMY Lewis is making a homecoming of sorts to play with the Ballarat Lady Miners in the South East Australian Basketball League.
30 Jan 09 | EMMA Stewart knows the thrill of winning the $125,000 PETstock Ballarat Pacing Cup, 2710 metres.
30 Jan 09 | TWELVE months ago False Gem mixed it with the best in the Inter-Dominion Trotting Championship final at Moonee Valley.
30 Jan 09 | BALLARAT and Buninyong tennis competitions have lost out to the extreme heat.
30 Jan 09 | "How could he?"
That was one newspaper's disturbing, and horribly naive, headline following Thursday's tragedy on the West Gate Bridge.
30 Jan 09 | ULTIMATE Mark is the second scratching from tomorrow night's Ballarat Pacing Cup.
30 Jan 09 | BALLARAT Lady Miners have signed Townsville Fire player Amy Lewis for the upcoming SEABL season.
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