Monday, November 25th, 2024 IF you’re looking for a Insta-perfect seasonal photo opportunity, then Coltman Plaza at Lucas has a real gift for you. Two detailed Christmas backdrops have...
WHILE it might be a bit later in the year than normal, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute annual book sale is set to return next...
TWO Ballarat’s Scout groups have teamed up this festive season to bring fresh cut Christmas tree joy to the city. Both the 3rd Ballarat and...
IN a sure sign that things are starting to return to normal, the doors at Ballarat Town Hall are once again open to the...
THE first regular City of Ballarat council meeting of the new term was held via video conference on Wednesday, 2 December, and at the...
FORMER Weddings Parties Anything front man Mick Thomas is set to play two shows at Volta this Friday with is band Roving Commission onboard...
CRICKETERS of all ages are set to benefit from improved facilities at Linton Recreation Reserve following the announcement of new nets at the ground. Just...
ABOUT forty students, staff and parents gathered at the gates at the Linton Primary School on Friday. They didn’t exactly know why they were there,...
WHILE the pandemic may have put the kybosh on so many community events this year, including the annual SpringFest Market Sunday, it hasn’t stopped...
CONSERVATION Regulator wildlife officers from Agriculture Victoria, along with Victoria Police, seized an albino Burmese python from home in Ballarat last week. The exotic animal,...
JUST under a century ago, returned service men and women from World War I started moving onto land around Mannibadar. Known as soldier settlements, their...
MEMBER for Wannon and Federal education minister Dan Tehan is having a cuppa, and you’re invited to join him. Mr Tehan has launched a monthly...
AFTER months of campaigning and weeks of voting and results tallying, the nine councillors who’ll represent the people of the City of Ballarat for...
THE boards of Ballarat Health Services and Wimmera Health Care Group have announced they are looking at amalgamating. The move comes after they both began...
VOCATIONAL training and job assistance not-for-profit BGT named a new board chair at the organisation’s recent annual general meeting.
A NEW complaints service has been established for people with disability and their families to raise concerns about workers entrusted with their care. Set up...
NATIONWIDE citizen science project, FrogID, gets jumping this week. Now in its third year the weeklong event is run but the Australian Museum and calls...
THE Ballarat Times has received a highly commended honour in the 2020 Victorian Country Press Association awards. Received in the category of Overall Newspaper Excellence...
THE Ballarat Turf Club has announced that a very small number of people will be able to attend this year’s race day in person. Despite...
IT’S been nearly three decades since Ballarat last had a drive-in cinema, but that’s about to change in just a few days the Showgrounds...
SPRING has well and truly sprung, and the Friends of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens have been making the most of the growing season. As a...
Never touch an Allen key again thanks to Formed by Function from Ballarat’s own Form Imagination.
CENTRAL Ward candidate in the City of Ballarat council vote, Geoff Howard, has said that if elected he will donate his annual councillor payment...
A PRELIMINARY report into May’s train crash at the Lydiard Street rail gates has been released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, but the...
