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City firm ahead with eco-fridge
12 Mar 10 | MAXITRANS Ballarat will manufacture the ecoFridge which is set to revolutionise the refrigerated transport industry. Maxitrans general manager manufacturing Glen Walker said the company is excited by the release of ecoFridge, to be unveiled at the Melbourne Truck, Trailer and Equipment Expo next Thursday.
12 Mar 10 | SIX new jobs will be created in Ballarat to build trains for Melbourne. The UnitedGroup Rail recently advertised for six positions to complete the fit-out contract for 19 new six-car X'Trapolis trains for the metropolitan fleet.
EMPLOYMENT: OzPress upgrade secures new jobs
26 Feb 10 | PREMIER John Brumby yesterday said State Government support of a local manufacturing operation would help retain and create jobs in Ballarat.
Ballarat City Council: $11m plan for Mair St
23 Feb 10 | TRAFFIC lights could replace roundabouts at two Mair St intersections as part of an estimated $11 million overhaul.  | CommentsComments (41)
22 Feb 10 | FIX Geelong Rd soon or face even more traffic hold-ups.  | CommentsComments (9)
22 Feb 10 | RETAIL giant Woolworths is branching out from the supermarket business to open a chain of large-format hardware stores.  | CommentsComments (3)
15 Feb 10 | THE University of Ballarat may be willing to open a new campus in Melton in a bid to boost education opportunities in the area, Professor David Battersby said yesterday.   | CommentsComments (1)
15 Feb 10 | FOR a Mount Rowan woman, finding her stolen yellow ute is the second most important thing she wants to do today.  | CommentsComments (2)
McCain Foods pleads guilty over workplace accident
15 Feb 10 | MCCAIN Foods is facing a hefty fine after a maintenance fitter lost his thumb in a machine three years ago.   | CommentsComments (3)
Clunes IGA theft: staff wages stolen
15 Feb 10 | IT TOOK Clunes IGA supermarket owner Bruce Hill just seven minutes to get from home to his business when his security company phoned to tell him there was a break-in early Sunday.  | CommentsComments (16)
10 Jan 10 | The Australian Open Road Cycling Championships culminate at Buninyong today with the elite men's road race.   | CommentsComments (1)
Ballarat bargain hunters hit Boxing Day sales
27 Dec 09 | IT'S a tradition now almost as synonymous with the festive season as the jolly fat man in the red suit.   | CommentsComments (2)
Three hurt in Ballan crash
27 Dec 09 | THREE people were treated in a Ballarat hospital after their car veered off Ballan-Daylesford Rd and rolled three times on Saturday afternoon.
Former Scarsdale man jailed for child sex
22 Dec 09 | AN ELDERLY man who admitted abusing three boys at Scarsdale in the 1980s has been jailed for at least three years.   | CommentsComments (1)
Ballarat's Christmas tree set on fire
21 Dec 09 | FIRE has caused an estimated $60,000 damage to the giant Christmas tree at the entrance of Ballarat's Bridge Mall.  | CommentsComments (29) | VIDEO: Christmas tree fire
Ballarat rallies behind Sebastopol pensioner
18 Dec 09 | THE Ballarat community has rallied to help a Sebastopol pensioner whose motorised scooter was torched by thieves, raising $3000 for a new one.  | Thieves target Sebastopol ...
Ballarat posties walk off the job
16 Dec 09 | AUSTRALIA Post has assured Ballarat residents mail will be delivered as usual today, despite more than two-thirds of the city's postal workers joining a nationwide strike.
09 Dec 09 | A BALLARAT man awaiting a court hearing for commercial drug-trafficking offences will contest charges that he threatened to kill a man during a residential tenancy dispute. Matthew Cicero, 33, is alleged to have threatened a man who came to collect his rent payment in July following a disagreement over alterations to a skylight.
Police hunt Yandoit gunman
09 Dec 09 | POLICE are confident of finding the gunman wanted over the shooting of a 58-year-old man that left him permanently disabled. The incident occurred at Yandoit, north-west of Ballarat, on October 31.   | CommentsComments (1) | VIDEO: Yandoit shooting
09 Dec 09 | A BUYER has been found for Ballarat's six ABC Learning childcare centres. The centres at Alfredton, Mt Helen, Mt Clear, Ballarat, Delacombe and Wendouree are among 678 across Australia to be sold to non-profit syndicate GoodStart. The company has been formed by leading charities.  | CommentsComments (1)
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