Friday, May 3rd, 2024 A PROJECT by the Smythesdale Progress Association to bring some festive joy to the town’s historical precinct has been unveiled. Murals depicting the 12 Days...
SERVICE closures and changes have been announced by Golden Plains Shire, with several offerings affected. Both municipal customer service centres at Bannockburn and Smythesdale will...
GOLDEN Plains Shire mayor Cr Helena Kirby has been named to a key leadership position with a statewide local government group. Last Friday she was...
WHILE it might be a bit later in the year than normal, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute annual book sale is set to return next...
GOLDEN Plains annual festive Twilight Market will return to the Bannockburn Heart on Thursday, 17 December. In what is becoming a Christmas tradition, the event...
Calls for expressions of interest on the old Bannockburn Shire Hall have gone out. If the process seems familiar, it is, with the site first...
RESIDENTS at Meredith have a new grab and go option if anyone in the district suffers a cardiac arrest. A modern automatic external defibrillator has...
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...
CENTREPIECE of the multi-million-dollar Bannockburn Heart development, the water play space, has been switched on for summer. The splash park will operate from 9am to...
MEMBER for Polwarth Richard Riordan has landed a new job as part of the State opposition’s mid-term shadow cabinet reshuffle. Along with his previous roles...
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...
