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Amardeep Singh Gadhoke and Shikha Agrawal celebrate Holi Festival at Lake Wendouree Fairyland. Picture: Kate Healy.

Ballarat embraces all the colours of the Holi Festival

LEADER: Next Address founder and chief executive Julie O'Donohue is disrupting the way Australians buy and sell houses. Picture: Kate Healy

How this Ballarat business is disrupting real estate as we know it

Helen Watson proudly holds one of her favourite pictures of her son Peter

My relentless 20-year fight for justice for my son

Dean Forrester are waving goodbye to the Green Parrot in Sebastopol. Photo: Kate Healy.

End of an era for another fish and chip shop

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Blandford helps get Hawks on front foot

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BCA firsts grand final: East Ballarat holds slight edge over North | scoreboard

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Car sparks Mount Clear plantation fire

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Active April goal to move this city on top

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BIG EFFORT: Jarrod Blandford was at his best in hitting an vital 60 runs for East Ballarat. Picture: Adam Trafford

Blandford helps get Hawks on front foot

David Brehaut

VITAL RUNS: Jarrod Blandford on his way to a season-high 60 for East Ballarat. Picture: Adam Trafford

BCA firsts grand final: East Ballarat holds slight edge over North | scoreboard

David Brehaut

SQUAD: Bruton pictured in North Melbourne's Round 5 game against Adelaide.

North's Bruton part of All Australian squad

Ben Hopkins

BIG EFFORT: Jarrod Blandford was at his best in hitting an vital 60 runs for East Ballarat. Picture: Adam Trafford

Blandford helps get Hawks on front foot

LATE STRIKE: Simo Mitrovic scored one of the Vikings' two goals.

Sebastopol Vikings downed in first fixture

Halliday wins second consecutive Swim to the Rings | gallery

Ben Hopkins

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WONDERFUL: Sovereign Hill's Gold Museum curator Snjez Cosic holds a vase. Pictures: Lachlan Bence

See strange, eclectic and random things at this exhibition | Gallery

Erin Williams

Amardeep Singh Gadhoke and Shikha Agrawal celebrate Holi Festival at Lake Wendouree Fairyland. Picture: Kate Healy.

Ballarat embraces all the colours of the Holi Festival

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Insights into mental health system, support for Ballarat

Melanie Whelan

The top 15 items you need to get baby ready

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How the Royal South Street Eisteddfod inspires your inner performing artist

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The top 15 items you need to get baby ready

The beautiful Maldives: In the Maldives the group will cruise some of the region's most spectacular islands, taking in pristine beaches and abundant wildlife. This is sponsored content from Travelrite.

Seychelles, Maldives and Andaman Islands make for the holiday of a lifetime

‘Our Babies 2018’ | Meet Ballarat's latest bundles of joy

See inside the CBD charmer you could grab at auction

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This weekend's property sales from across the region

Tempting fete: Buninyong Primary School students Astrid Forsyth, 11, Zahra Taylor, 11, and Imogen Beck, 10 prepare for Friday's celebrations. Picture: Adam Trafford

Buninyong Primary School fete cooking up a treat

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Tempting fete: Buninyong Primary School students Astrid Forsyth, 11, Zahra Taylor, 11, and Imogen Beck, 10 prepare for Friday's celebrations. Picture: Adam Trafford

Buninyong Primary School fete cooking up a treat

BIG SHOW: Karova Lounge will welcome Auntie Leo & The Backstabbers and support acts on Saturday night. Entry is $10.

Ballarat's gigs of the week

DIFFERENT: Unlike a lot of birds, male blue wrens moult twice each year.

Blue wrens that turn brown

CONTEST: Ballarat recruit Luke Swards controls the ball off his chest despite close attention. Picture: Lachlan Bence

Missed opportunity for Ballarat in state league 5 debut | video

SHARP: Ballarat City FC goalkeeper Hiromi Nakashima played a key role in keeping the Navy Blues in the game. Picture: Kate Healy

City FC leaves charge too late in NPL2 West Vic | video

East Ballarat celebrates the dismissal of Connor Miles - one of Ollie Hayes' four wickets for the day. Picture: Kate Healy

BCA firsts grand final day 1: North Ballarat hits back after East's early heroics | scoreboard, video

Deanne Gilson stands alongside the Murrup Laarr (ancestral stones) artwork, the first to appear in the North Gardens new indigenous sculpture park. Picture: Adam Trafford/

First artwork unveiled at new Aboriginal sculpture park

Amardeep Singh Gadhoke and Shikha Agrawal celebrate Holi Festival at Lake Wendouree Fairyland. Picture: Kate Healy.

Ballarat embraces all the colours of the Holi Festival

Jolyon Attwooll

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Flow: A VicRoads video extols the virtue of traffic lights replacing roundabouts at Grenville Street and Dawson Street.

Four lanes for Mair St as traffic set to 'treble'

Alex Ford

Ballan Station is getting a new pedestrian overpass in the next week.

More train pain for longterm gain, and don't forget about road works too

Greg Gliddon

Good leaders are everywhere in Ballarat

Vikki Doddamani

Flowers and messages left at the Ballarat mosque

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End-of-life doula Helen Callanan

Doulas provide support for the dying

Eileen Wood

ON REFLECTION: Simon Cullen with the Lookinglass artifical intelligence mirror.

AI mirror monitors Parkinson’s signs

BE SAFE: If you find it is too tricky or unsafe to fit a smoke alarm yourself, contact your nearest Fire and Rescue NSW station for advice.

Be alarmed about fire risk

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will announce almost half-a-billion dollars for health in Victoria.

PM to outline Victorian health package

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Labor says all Medicare rebates will go up in line with inflation if it wins the federal election.

Labor vows early Medicare freeze end

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A NASA satellite image of tropical cyclone Veronica approaching the northwest coast of WA.

Veronica to weaken overnight, flood likely

NSW Regional Water Minister Niall Blair announced his resignation a day after the state election.

NSW regional water minister steps down

Queensland Police are investigating a car crash near Rockhampton which has left a young girl dead.

Girl dead, boy critical after Qld crash

Sonia Kohlbacher

Deputy Premier John Barilaro, with Gladys Berejiklian, says he's disappointed with Nationals loss.

Stadiums hurt us more than Libs: NSW Nats

Tom Rabe

NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge (c) says there is a need to stay away from One Nation's Mark Latham.

Greens to isolate Latham's 'racist' party

Luke Costin

Commuters in Melbourne will soon be able to use their Android smartphones to catch public transport.

Phones to replace myki cards in Vic

Rick Goodman

Garvoc sheep farmer Angus McGillivery is still waiting to rebuild after last year's St Patrick's Day fires. Photo by Rob Gunstone.

Rebuilding plans ahead after South-West fires

Katrina Lovell

Top price bull: Phil and Kerrie Geehman, Ensay, purchased Lot 2, Nunniong Kenya N076 (H) Wednesday.

Nunniong Hereford Bull Sale

Peter Kostos

Stud Manager: Newcomen Hereford's stud manager, Matt Marshall, presents Newcomen Nambucca N015 (H), the top price bull at their recent sale at Ensay.

Newcomen Hereford Bull Sale

Peter Kostos

'Once-in-a-lifetime' experience at Western Plains Zoo

More than just a 'motel of the seas', cruising is a must-do travel experience

Scott McRae

Photo: Lifetime Private Retreats

South Australia: You're soaking in it ... with the best views available

Many hands: If you plan ahead, stay organised and have many helping hands, then moving day will be somewhat stress-free.

How to move house stress-free

COMPACT HOMES: Tony Skinner builds tiny houses out of shipping containers. Picture: DARREN HOWE

Big dreams of tiny living for Tiny House Festival

Elspeth Kernebone

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Try this: Asian slaw salad with marinated beef