Tuesday, November 26th, 2024 YOU normally associate drive-throughs with picking up food, not dropping it off. Yet that’s what’s been happening in the loading dock of the Ballarat Library...
A THIRD major option for buying and selling homes in Ballarat is been launched. Known as Open Negotiation and run online or via smart phone...
FUNDING has been confirmed for the next stage of the Ballarat Sports and Entertainment Centre. Coming in at $5.2 million, the second step in development...
DEVELOPMENT works to add a shared pedestrian and cycle way along the southside of the Sturt Street Gardens in the section controlled by the...
THE next City of Ballarat council meeting will be a completely online affair following temporary legislation that allows for changes to attendance requirements. Included in...
ODOUR from the Central Victorian Livestock Exchange at Miners Rest once again wafted into the City of Ballarat council chamber following a question from...
The next Golden Plains Shire council meeting, set for Tuesday, 28 April will be a little different. For the first time the municipality will broadcast...
A RANGE of local businesses have jumped onboard to create hampers for a mums on their special day. Area brands like Odd Sockery, Interknit...
THE number of people visiting Ballarat has increased by about half-a-million, year-on-year, according to statistics released by Tourism Research Australia. Between December 2018 and December...
WORK’S are complete on the latest set of improvements to Brown Hill Hall. The upgrades included a new kitchen, renovating two meeting rooms and construction...
FORTY years ago, Private George Brown signed up for his first hitch as reservist with what was then 2nd Battalion, Royal Victoria Regiment, serving...
WHILE current movement restrictions mean that Commerce Ballarat has been forced to postpone its annual upskilling and networking Business Day Out, that does not...
THE first round of this year’s Golden Plains Shire’s Community Strengthening Grants is still open and the window for applications has been extended. With grants...
A DIVERSE range of interventions and supports have been announced by Golden Plains Shire aimed at helping local businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. With about...
AS the final installment of 2019/2020 municipal rate notices go out, Golden Plains Shire is offering measures to help residents in financial distress if...
A TREE at the top of Barkly Street in Ballarat East has been nominated for the 2020 Tree of the Year award. Located at the...
A NEW COVID-19 testing laboratory has been established at the Lucas Community Hub. The site will be run by UFS Dispensaries and is funded by...
FINANCIAL stability sought by Voice FM is in jeopardy due to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. If things don’t improve the community radio station could...
New parents adapt to life under lockdown from before birth to homecoming and beyond.
HENRY Mann was born just under two weeks before...REFLECTING the current economic conditions and challenges presented by COVID-19, the region’s annual Business Excellence Awards will be replaced by a series of events...
A FACEBOOK page was switched on over the long weekend is connecting survivors and victims of sexual abuse as well as those in their...
PREMIER Daniel Andrews has this morning announced that the current state of emergency in place to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic has been extended...
WHILE the annual PowerFM Easter Egg hunt may have been cancelled due to social distancing and preventive isolation, the team at the radio station...
A PLASTICS company in Wendouree has found itself on the frontline in the battle against the spread of COVID-19. From a small Wendouree factory, owner...
