31 Dec 09 | A BUSHFIRE that was burning out of control at Mt Clear has been contained.
Heavy rain helped firefighters bring the fire, which burnt about 20 hectares of bushland, under control.
31 Dec 09 | A BALLARAT woman has been charged with stabbing her partner in their home.
31 Dec 09 | HAD enough? It's a question The Courier is urging all Ballarat residents to ask themselves.
31 Dec 09 | A SOGGY and smoky end to 2009 did not deter Ballarat from celebrating the new year in style.
Despite a hot day and a heavy rain in the evening, residents and visitors made their way to New Year's Eve parties at local venues and private residences.
31 Dec 09 | A HOT windy day was last night topped off with 16.6 mm of rain in three hours as a cool change moved through Ballarat.
31 Dec 09 | MT Clear resident Aleasha Eppingstall and her father Allan were told to evacuate their homes from about 5.45pm.
Ms Eppingstall said fire trucks and police came into Pindari Drive, advising residents to evacuate to Buninyong, which was considered a safer place.
31 Dec 09 | REGENCY DRIVE resident Bruce Curran said the response to the Mt Clear bushfire yesterday was a "complete disgrace".
31 Dec 09 | MT CLEAR residents were preparing for the worst when fire sprung up on Tinworth Ave about 4.45pm yesterday.
Owners of one Whitehorse Rd property, among the trees where the main fire was initially raging, were putting wet towels in their gutters and hosing down their home.
30 Dec 09 | WATER restrictions will be eased to stage 3 in Ballarat from today.
Residents and commercial customers will be able to can water their gardens for up to eight hours a week, on set days.
30 Dec 09 | A BALLARAT couple who helped save a man's life at Geelong's Eastern Beach on Wednesday say they were just in the right place at the right time.
Rod and Sarah Miller were in Geelong on a day trip, swimming at Eastern Beach with their children when they noticed two teenagers in distress.
30 Dec 09 | A FERRY stranded on Lake Wendouree's dry lakebed will remain there for at least another three months.
Owner of the The Begonia Princess, Greg Austin, said an attempt would made to retrieve the marooned ferry in late March if the lake dried sufficiently.
30 Dec 09 | ROBERT Smerdon has done it. So have fellow Ballarat trainers Barry James and Darren Weir.
Naracoorte's Sue Murphy and Ken Keys from Cranbourne are in the same category.
30 Dec 09 | Luke Roberts, the forgotten man of Australian international cycling, plans to continue the resurrection of his career at the Scody Australian Open Road Championships in Ballarat.
30 Dec 09 | JACQUI Watt has a close affinity with Maryborough.
She grew up in the town and had her first taste of athletics there - cutting her teeth in the sport in little athletics and then moving into junior ranks.
30 Dec 09 | THE big names are ready to come out and play at Maryborough.
Ballarat athletes are ready, though, to try to shake things up in today's Victorian Athletic League meet.
Perennial performers Rod Mathews, Peter O'Dwyer, Rob Lehmann and Justin Templar are in the mix for the $10,300 Maryborough Gift at Princes Park.
30 Dec 09 | THERE is not enough demand to justify trains after midnight on New Year's Eve, V/Line said.
30 Dec 09 | BALLARAT residents may start the new year with a bang, literally.
30 Dec 09 | NEW Year's Eve revellers be warned: police will be out in force in Ballarat tonight.
30 Dec 09 | IT is a tradition as steeped in Ballarat history as the Eureka Stockade. Well, almost.
30 Dec 09 | A 14-YEAR-OLD Spring Hill cyclist escaped from a collision with a car yesterday with just minor cuts and bruises.
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