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August 22, 2021

Locals urged to support Biennale

THE CONTINUED lockout of Melbourne visitors from regional Victoria has sparked a plea from organisers of the ninth Ballarat International Foto Biennale for locals...

August 10, 2021

Students to showcase talents

THE Ballarat Centre of Music and the Arts’ latest production, 13 The Musical, has been tentatively earmarked to go ahead on 11 and 12...

August 6, 2021

Hoops showdown for Indian aid

A CHARITY basketball scratch match featuring local identities and raising money for COVID-affected India will be played out at the Ballarat Sports and Events...

July 29, 2021

Dollar Bill ups the ante

AWARD winning local brewery Dollar Bill Brewing is hoping to help cement Ballarat as the craft beer and tourism capital of regional Australia, with...

July 27, 2021

Red Mill offers escape from reality

THE George Hotel will be overrun by a bunch of bawdy burlesque, cabaret and circus acts at the end of this month - restrictions...

July 27, 2021

Junior performers return to stage

AFTER a turbulent, stop-start eighteen months, the Ballarat Centre of Music and the Arts is finally getting ready to unleash its junior performers on...

July 12, 2021

Queen musical to rock Her Maj

A MUSICAL COMEDY that centres around the repertoire of the most famous rock group of all time - Queen - will take centre stage...

July 7, 2021

Winter market returns from hibernation

AFTER a year out in the cold, the Ballarat Design Exchange Winter Market is ready to make its comeback, with around 60 designers and...

July 7, 2021

All abilities invited to have a go

PEOPLE with a disability are being encouraged to attend a come and try day where they can have a go at a range of...

June 29, 2021

What’s in a placename?

HAVE you ever wondered why town names in regional Victoria are what they are, and why some of them have changed at different times...

June 28, 2021

Facing Up for NAIDOC Week

A COLLABORATION between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and actors that shines a spotlight on former Australian Prime Ministers and their attitudes towards Aboriginal and...

June 24, 2021

Settle to chair ag training review

MEMBER for Buninyong Michaela Settle will head a newly announced review into the future of agriculture training in Victoria. The appraisal is set to look...

June 23, 2021

Veterans’ tournament on the table

VICTORIA’S best senior table tennis players will descend on the Ballarat Table Tennis Association’s world-class stadium on 27 June for the Ballarat Veterans Table...

June 19, 2021

Celestial play on shortest day

AMATEUR astronomers and other interested onlookers can come together to witness the June solstice at precisely 1.33pm on Monday, 21 June at the Ballarat...

June 16, 2021

Blokes’ Lunch fundraiser back in town

BALLARAT’S Biggest Ever Blokes’ Lunch will go ahead as planned on Friday, 3 September, in what will be its tenth edition, with a couple...

June 4, 2021

Community still keen on outside eats

LOCAL residents have given the City of Ballarat’s outdoor dining hubs a big tick of approval, as hospitality venues continue to struggle with the...

May 30, 2021

October convention a boost for city

BALLARAT is set to host the Australian Regional Tourism Convention from 11-13 October this year, after the event’s cancellation in 2020 due to the...

May 27, 2021

Dollar Bill cashes in at beer awards

INVERMAY’S Dollar Bill Brewing has trounced one-thousand seven-hundred and eighty other entries to win Champion Australian Beer at the 2021 Australian International Beer Awards,...