June 5, 2019
Model trains on track
THERE is something fascinating about watching model trains run on miniature tracks through meticulously made landscapes. Now you can experience that for yourself as the...
June 5, 2019
Fortitude Legal takes the top prize
BALLARAT’S Fortitude Legal was named Boutique Law Firm of the Year at the recent Law Institute of Victoria’s 15th Annual Law Awards. Fortitude Legal is...
June 5, 2019
BDO helps forward thinking
REFLECTION appears to be the key take away for the delegates at Commerce Ballarat’s Business Day Out. Two-hundred and twenty business owners, managers and staff...
June 5, 2019
Find out what it’s worth at Collectables and Vintage Bazaar
IT’S not quite Antiques Roadshow but for anyone wanting to know what their old thing might be worth bring it along to the Ballarat...
June 5, 2019
Long locks chopped for charity
CHERIE Birks has taken almost 10 years to grow her 70cm of golden tresses. It will only take minutes to lose them at cut4cafs, a...
June 5, 2019
Barkly Square officially up and running
DEPUTY Mayor Cr Jim Rinaldi performed the honours at the official opening of Barkly Square, the rejuvenation of the former Ballarat Secondary College Barkly...
June 5, 2019
Miners Rest manhole probed by robot
THREE organisations tested a sewer robot in Miners Rest on Tuesday. La Trobe University Engineering, Intelligent Water Networks and Central Highlands Water were involved in...
June 5, 2019
Ballarat’s blokes fundraising for men’s health
PROSTATE cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in Australia, with approximately Three thousand five hundred dying from it each year. More men...
May 29, 2019
Winter Appeal underway
WITH a new name the 3BA Winter Appeal is kicking off this week. John Fitzgibbon, General Manager of 3BA said the rebranded appeal, previously known...
May 29, 2019
Art on show in Beaufort
QUEEN’S Birthday weekend means one thing to Beaufort, the Pyrenees Art Exhibition. The weekend kicks off on opening night Friday, 7 June with judges announcing...
May 29, 2019
Local business fills council shopping trolley
CITY of Ballarat has had a procurement policy and a commitment to buying from local businesses since 2008. It is incredibly important for council to...
May 26, 2019
A Venezuelan family’s journey to Meredith
WHEN Rual Manriquez arrived in Australia from Venezuela in 2013 there were just over three thousand Venezuelan expats in this country. Like many immigrants before...
May 23, 2019
Mount Pleasant’s history all mapped up
MOUNT Pleasant, Ballarat’s oldest residential suburb, was founded near the Mount Pleasant Reserve in 1854. Now the Mount Pleasant History Group in partnership with the...
May 22, 2019
Legal eagles up for award
THE Victorian Legal Awards, organised by Law Institute of Victoria, celebrates the outstanding achievements of the Victorian legal profession. Two of the three nominees for...
May 22, 2019
A tale of two aprons
LIZ Marsden, President of the Ballarat Apron Festival, calls it her shower moment. It was when she realised one morning the festival’s apron collection didn’t...
May 22, 2019
Businesses buying locally
Fifty-seven percent of Ballarat businesses’ goods and services spending went out of town in 2007. Ten years later that escape spend has dropped to 41...
May 22, 2019
City of Ballarat council briefs: Bridge Mall open to traffic?
COUNCIL voted unanimously in support of a proposal to allocate $15 million towards stage one of the Bakery Hill and Bridge Mall precinct works...
May 22, 2019
A night at the trots helps bush fire victims
A FUNDRAISER for the victims of the Bunkers Hill fire is being held at the Ballarat Trotting Club on Friday, 31 May. A fast-moving grass...
May 22, 2019
City unveils draft budget
THE City of Ballarat has released its 2019-20 draft budget. Outlining the municipality’s financial pathway for the 12 months from 1 July, the document sees...
May 15, 2019
Battling Ebola – A journey from Brown Hill to Sierra Leone to New York
BALLARAT raised Jamie Bedson was living in Sierra Leone, Africa on 26 May 2014, the day the deadly Ebola virus arrived. He was working for...
May 15, 2019
Research helps drive Cafs future
CHILD and Family Services Ballarat, commonly referred to as Cafs, is a community services organisation that provides a range of programs and services to...
May 8, 2019
Hospitality skills gap filled by innovator
BELINDA Eden launched Troop Employment to brand hospitality as an industry people want to stay in as a career rather than a stepping stone...
May 8, 2019
RAAF Ballarat immortalised online
DURING World War II five thousand and twenty-five airmen trained as Wireless Air Gunners at Ballarat airport. More than 1,100 were killed in action overseas. Now...
May 8, 2019
Connecting2community ready to help
IMAGINE being held captive by anxiety to the point of being unable to take the bus around town. Without the bus, food friends and family...
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