Monday, December 30th, 2024 VICTORIAN Premier Daniel Andrews has announced face masks will be required for all people in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire from Thursday. The move comes...
AT the peak of lockdown, brothers Sam and Josh Bromley-Lynch found themselves missing their local cafés. To remedy this, the pair took to Instagram and...
ANOTHER sports ground in Golden Plains Shire has received a lighting upgrade with work on four towers at Rokewood Recreation Reserve now complete and...
LAKE Wendouree’s North Gardens Landscape Masterplan has received a couple of nods at the 2020 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Victorian State Awards. The project...
A BALLARAT based accountant is warning that there could be some delays in the ability of people to prepare and submit tax returns this...
NOVEMBER’S Springfest is the latest casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, with organisers making the call to not run the 2020 event. Originally set for the...
WORLD Heritage listing for the Central Goldfields is firmly back on the agenda after twelve municipalities teamed up with the State government to push...
THERE will be some community football in the region this year as juniors from the Central Highlands Football League will return to the park...
IMPACTS from May’s State Ombudsman report into senior ranks at the City of Ballarat continue to be felt with interim CEO Janet Dore initiating...
METROPOLITAN Melbourne will be sent back into lockdown from tomorrow night on the back of fears of a growing second wave of COVID-19. The reimposed...
For July's What is the Question Riland spoke with physiotherapist Simon Ellis. What is your name? Simon Ellis. What is your occupation? Physiotherapist - Ballarat Allied Health. What brought...
LANDHOLDERS and their helpers are out across the region getting native plants into the ground as part of Landcare’s Free Trees program. During June and...
MICHAEL Unwin Wines was the latest location in the district to receive a decommissioned W-Class tram last Friday. Owner Michael Unwin, who relocated the winery’s...
BOTH the Ballarat Football Netball League and the Central Highlands Netball League have made the decision to cancel their 2020 seasons. At the time of...
THE City of Ballarat has received almost half-a-million dollars from the Federal government as part of the round five of the Safer Communities Fund. A...
LAST week’s City of Ballarat council meeting was an entirely online affair with councillors and officers linking in via video conference. The agenda was comparatively...
ANOTHER set of road works in the Shire is complete with a stretch of Pitfield-Cressy Road, west of Colac-Ballarat Road, finished and open for...
RESULTS from Golden Plains Shire’s annual community satisfaction survey are in and they reveal perceptions on how Golden Plains is run haven’t changed much...
WHAT’S the most interesting thing you’ve found under your car seat? Some lose change, a pen, dust? For one Ballarat car buyer it was lost...
THREE Ballarat based communicators have come together to create new podcast series celebrating the region’s commercial champions. Titled Ballarat Business, the show’s hosted by podcaster...
WORK to replace a fernery at the Botanic Gardens is underway with foundations being laid for the Gothic style replica of a building that...
A HIGH voltage transmission powerline set to run from Bulgana just north east of Ararat to Sydenham in Melbourne’s west could potentially cut through...
IN another sign that we’re starting to emerge from the pandemic, Kryal Castle will drop the drawbridge in time for the school holidays. The medieval...
TUESDAY’S Golden Plains Shire council meeting was once again streamed online with no public access to the chamber due to the ongoing pandemic. The big-ticket...
