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WORKS: Construction has begun at the corner of Ascort Street and Sturt Street.

Works begin on notorious Sturt Street intersections

Ben Hopkins

NEW LOCATION: Leanne Martin, Bendigo Bank regional manager, on site at the Block Arcade location on Monday. Picture: Kate Healy.

New branch of Bendigo Bank opens on Tuesday

Jolyon Attwooll

Sheila Bower looks over the remains of what was her car port, including a speaker which flew more than 30 feet. Picture: Kate Healy

UPDATEDBurrumbeet unofficially records more than 200mm of rain in a few hours

Greg Gliddon and Pat Nolan

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No slowing Ballarat's rental price rise, says agent

Ben Hopkins

CHILDCARE: Buninyong MP Michaela Settle, students Emmley Mosely and Cessie Thompson Acting Director, Federation TAFE Andrew Henwood

Free TAFE courses for early childhood educators at Fed Uni

Greg Gliddon

Murphy's Pigs Celtic Band's concert in the Civic Hall

REVIEWStanding ovations to finish celebratory festival

Bronislaw Sozanski

A screenshot of the storm above Burrumbeet on Sunday night.

Bureau explains how 200mm of rain hit Burrumbeet, but missed Ballarat

Picture: Tom Swann

It's not just Ballarat's wild weather as Canberra cops hailstorm battering

Lucy Bladen

UPDATEDTwo new weather warnings for the state, neither include Ballarat

NDIS must be fixed to help 'frustrated' recipients

Magistrate brands mandatory licence loss for speeding unjust

Community picnic in support of refugees and asylum seekers

WORKS: Construction has begun at the corner of Ascort Street and Sturt Street.

Works begin on notorious Sturt Street intersections

BIG YEAR AHEAD: Brook Thompson is pictured playing for the Greater Western Victoria Rebels during last season. The team will kick off the 2020 campaign in late February.

Rebels girls to play in AFLW curtain raiser | 2020 fixtures

The man who may be able to help police with their enquiries.

Man breaks into business, punches a Christmas tree and steals gifts

Magistrate brands mandatory licence loss for speeding unjust

Magistrate brands mandatory licence loss for speeding unjust

Murphy's Pigs Celtic Band's concert in the Civic Hall

REVIEWStanding ovations to finish celebratory festival

FAMILY: Suyog Dahal, 3, Success Dahal, 6, and their mother Susan Dahal at the picnic. Photo: Kate Healy

Community picnic in support of refugees and asylum seekers

Works begin on notorious Sturt Street intersections

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New branch of Bendigo Bank opens on Tuesday

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Buninyong too good for Midlands Golf

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UPDATEDBurrumbeet unofficially records more than 200mm of rain in a few hours

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No slowing Ballarat's rental price rise, says agent

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Rebels girls to play in AFLW curtain raiser | 2020 fixtures

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Margaret Coffey (Daylesford)

Buninyong too good for Midlands Golf

BIG YEAR AHEAD: Brook Thompson is pictured playing for the Greater Western Victoria Rebels during last season. The team will kick off the 2020 campaign in late February.

Rebels girls to play in AFLW curtain raiser | 2020 fixtures

Nick White sits at the back of the five-man breakaway in the Town Down Under Classic in Adelaide. Picture:

White prominent in Tour Down Under prelude

TOP EFFORT: Mt Clear's Jacob Smith managed a handy 34, but it wasn't enough to get his side over the line on Sunday.

Mounties out of Cricket Willow Cup series

LIam Gibcus

Experienced duo making return to Miners

TRIUMPHANT: Trainer Greg Hope with AGs White Socks and the Ballarat Pacing Cup trophy. Picture: Lachlan Bence

UPDATEDAGs White Socks leads home NZ trifecta | video

David Brehaut

OFF TO FINAL Kate Gath with Pacifico Dream after winning a Victoria Derby heat in Ballarat on Saturday night. Picture: Lachlan Bence

Stewart makes stand in Derby, Oaks heats | videos

David Brehaut

ON FIRE: Golden Point's Simon Ogilvie finished with bowling figures of 4-42 in his club's win over East Ballarat. Picture: Kate Healy

BCA first grade round 11 complete review | video

Kyle Evans

Why Sicily is a must-see destination in Italy

Why Sicily is a must-see destination in Italy

Nicole Phillips

Tourism Australia is attempting to attract visitors to parts of the country that have not been impacted by bushfires. Pictures: Shutterstock

How to help tourism rise from the ashes

Michael Turtle

The Barossa Valley - one of my favourite places.

The lovely and perplexing Barossa

John Rozentals

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Is Shrek the Musical worth a trip to the big smoke? Yup.

REVIEWIs Shrek the Musical worth a trip to the big smoke? Yup.

Gayle Tomlinson

Find a garage sale in regional Victoria

Find a garage sale in regional Victoria

Robert Downey Jr as Dr John Dolittle in Dolittle. Picture: Universal Pictures

REVIEWDowney delights as Dr Dolittle

Jane Freebury

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Stockholm, Sweden.

Cruise the Baltic on a fully escorted tour

Emma Brown

The Wow factor of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Mediterranean

The Wow factor of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Mediterranean

Emma Brown

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Oia town on Santorini island, Greece. Get amongst the traditional and famous houses and churches with blue domes over the Caldera, Aegean sea.

Medieval cities of the Mediterranean

Emma Brown

Get amongst the crowd at the 2020 Port Fairy Festival. Photo by David Harris.

An intergenerational festival that celebrates music, friendship and fun

House of the Week | Grandeur and elegance on the Parade

House of the Week | This $2 million beauty on Lake Wendouree could be yours

House of the Week

What open houses are around Ballarat this weekend?

What open houses are around Ballarat this weekend?

Commercial Real Estate | Secure a fashion icon

Commercial Real Estate | Secure a fashion icon

Commercial Real Estate

TAKING CARE: Animals, just like people, can be seriously affected by smoke haze.

Helping animals cope with those not-so-happy, hazy days

RSPCA

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Want to share Ballarat sport results, draws or teams?

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TAKING CARE: Animals, just like people, can be seriously affected by smoke haze.

Helping animals cope with those not-so-happy, hazy days

NAME: There are now three species of yam daisy recognised in Victoria, where there was previously only one. This is the common Ballarat species.

Keeping up with the changing name game

Roger Thomas

ATTRACTIVE: The graceful drooping seedheads of weeping grass are apparent from mid-December to mid-January.

The native perennial that resembles lawn

Roger Thomas

Sheila Bower looks over the remains of what was her car port, including a speaker which flew more than 30 feet. Picture: Kate Healy

UPDATEDBurrumbeet unofficially records more than 200mm of rain in a few hours

A screenshot of the storm above Burrumbeet on Sunday night.

Bureau explains how 200mm of rain hit Burrumbeet, but missed Ballarat

The man who may be able to help police with their enquiries.

Man breaks into business, punches a Christmas tree and steals gifts

FAMILY: Suyog Dahal, 3, Success Dahal, 6, and their mother Susan Dahal at the picnic. Photo: Kate Healy

Community picnic in support of refugees and asylum seekers

ON FIRE: Golden Point's Simon Ogilvie finished with bowling figures of 4-42 in his club's win over East Ballarat. Picture: Kate Healy

BCA first grade round 11 complete review | video

Kyle Evans

A good use?: Firefighting aircraft in Ballarat in 2018 and (inset) the Project Aquarius report of 1987.

"A weakness for burning': Australia's lack of a national aerial fire strategy

Caleb Cluff

Cricket - BCA Firsts - East Ballarat v Golden Point.
Picture: Kate Healy

Ballarat Weekend in Sport - PHOTOS | January 18, 2020

Kate Healy

BALLARAT PACING CUP : Photos

BALLARAT PACING CUP : Photos

The Courier reader's varying climate change views | letters to the editor

OPINIONThe Courier reader's varying climate change views | letters to the editor

Why stop with just a giant head of Donald Trump?

OPINIONWhy stop with just a giant head of Donald Trump?

Ballarat's Australia Day fireworks should not go ahead

OPINIONBallarat's Australia Day fireworks should not go ahead

REUNITED: Valda Dawson (left) with cousin, and neighbour, Dorothy Wallis.

Cousins reunited after six decades

Geraldine Cardozo

JUST LOVING IT: See Aussie singing legend John Paul Young. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

JPY shares the love

Cheryl Field

MULTI-LEVEL: The Smart Road vertical village will comprise 77 independent living apartments and community amenities, including a Montessori Early Learning Centre.

Vertical living: A smart idea for generations

Geraldine Cardozo

Damaging winds, large hailstones and heavy rainfall is still threatening large areas of NSW.

Debris threat for NSW fire areas rainwater

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A detective has recalled going to the Wellard bushland where Jane Rimmer's body was found dumped.

Bone missing in Claremont killings case

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Denishar Woods' mother says it's hurtful that it took so long to launch a WA shock safety campaign.

WA shock safety campaign delay questioned

Barrie Tabourie the flying fox was found injured and crying near a burned out stretch of land in Lake Tabourie the day after a bushfire swept through the area. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong

OPINIONAustralia is losing its capacity to understand environmental recovery

The SES have responded to almost 1500 calls for assistance as hail and storms lashed Victoria.

Storm hits Vic before fire spike danger

Marnie Banger and Ulises Izquierdo

Tracey Bridgewater's trial has heard she fatally stabbed her partner after he assaulted her parents.

Woman 'killed partner after parents hurt'

Rebecca Le May

A severe hailstorm has pelted Canberra where the Parliament House grounds look like it snowed.

Severe hailstorm wreaks havoc in Canberra

Matt Coughlan

STRENGTH: Felicity Urquhart has found strength in her music after her husband Glen Hannah passed away last year. Photo: Peter Hardin 170120PHC060

A mental illness so well-disguised Felicity Urquhart never saw it

Madeline Link

Livestock transporters, industry step up fire support

Livestock transporters, industry step up fire support

Alastair Dowie

WIDESPREAD RAIN: A moist, unstable atmosphere, and a trough, have brought widespread rain to the east, says senior Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Richard Russell.

Unstable atmosphere brings rain to the east

Andrew Miller

HAY ESCORT: The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has been out across eastern Victoria this week escorting drivers through fire-affected areas, along narrow or damaged roads often under poor visibility and missing signage. Photo by NHVR.

Hay - a special delivery from west to east

Andrew Miller

LOOK, BUT DON'T TOUCH: Position cameras up high inside and outside, so they're visible but out of arm's reach to avoid accidentally getting knocked over by large pets.

Keeping a watch on Fido

HUMBLE: The A-HA! Studio house, at a modest 64.5m2, feels bigger inside because of of the clean, unfussy design, say owner-builders Jesse Zilm and Isabella James.

A-HA! What a great idea for a house

KITCHEN NIRVANA: Research shows that mental clarity, productivity and endorphins increase when you're living and working in an organised space.

Time to sort out your stuff