30 Sep 09 | MT Clear school teacher Vivien Hodgins was last night confirmed as one of 76 people killed in yesterday's devastating South Pacific tsunami.
30 Sep 09 | THE Mt Clear Secondary College community had been left devastated by the sudden death of one of its most popular teachers, the acting principal said yesterday.
Jenny Bromley described Vivien Hodgins, wife of Hepburn Shire councillor Rod May, as one of the schools best loved teachers.
30 Sep 09 | THREE Ballarat men holidaying in Samoa were among the survivors of yesterday's deadly tsunami.
Richard Forrester, Brendan Linnehan and Mark McDermott were all staying on a tiny island off the north coast of Upolu, Samoa's second largest island, when the undersea earthquake hit at 3.48am local time.
30 Sep 09 | AFTER months of delays, organisers promise Ballarat's Mill Markets outlet will open this month.
The outlet at the former Great Southern Woolshed on the Western Fwy, was originally due to open in August.
Mill Markets manager Ian Bellis said the date was pushed back due to a bra sale at the venue.
30 Sep 09 | A MAN who wielded a knife at his mother and former partner when his 19-month-old child was present was sentenced to jail yesterday.
30 Sep 09 | AMA Victoria claims Medicare rebate cuts will blow out the current cataract surgery waiting list at Ballarat Health Services.
30 Sep 09 | WITH Cadel Evans becoming a world champion and the sun beginning to emerge again, the City of Ballarat could not have picked a better time to promote the Tour Challenge.
30 Sep 09 | A SECURITY guard employed to collect money from McDonald's restaurants across Ballarat stole $5000 to fund a gambling addiction, a court has been told.
30 Sep 09 | PROMISING Ballarat golfer Jordan Lett has given away age and experience in winning the Victorian Country Junior Championship.
Lett, 16, was a one-shot winner of the under-18 event over Morwell's Lucas Towns after the two-round competition concluded on Tuesday.
30 Sep 09 | A BALLARAT women's team will have plenty of motivation at this weekend's Victorian Open Volleyball Championships.
30 Sep 09 | MOTHER-OF-THREE Laurelle Sommers is a hockey player from way back.
But it is in soccer where the 45-year-old has made her mark.
30 Sep 09 | BALLARAT residents are being urged to hand in knives and guns to police during a weapons amnesty this month.
30 Sep 09 | A MT CLEAR school teacher is one of three Australians confirmed dead after a tsunami devastated the small Pacific island nation this morning.
30 Sep 09 | REIGNING premier Wendouree has prepared a new-look Red Caps outfit for its Ballarat Cricket Association firsts title defence.
30 Sep 09 | A DOOR-to-door salesman has been injured in an unprovoked assault at Bacchus Marsh.
29 Sep 09 | CIARAN Conaughton dominated the Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club under-17 Mt Buninyong hill climb.
Conaughton recorded a slick time of 11 minutes, 21 seconds for the 4.2 kilometre climb to defeat Killian Plastow and Andrew Pearson.
29 Sep 09 | NOT surprisingly, Springbank's David McGill has taken out the best and fairest for the Central Highlands club.
McGill, the heart and soul of the Tigers engine room, was on holiday in Canada and unable to accept the award, which he won ahead of defender Stuart Ward.
29 Sep 09 | MUST Be Magic is the youngest chaser in tonight's Flying Horse Tabaret Final at Ballarat greyhound races, but is primed to run the biggest race of her short career.
Trained at Bannockburn by Daryl Williams, Must Be Magic will jump from the coveted box one in the final, to be run over 450 metres.
29 Sep 09 | JAY Bourke scored a big victory in the Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club's Mt Buninyong hill climb.
Bourke, a lightly built cyclist, went into the event as top seed.
29 Sep 09 | BALLARAT Red Devil Josh Romein is the Football Federation Victoria state league two north-west division best and fairest.
But the gun midfielder's award didn't come without a twist.
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