Flashback Gallery Celebrates Ballarat’s Dancing With Our Stars Participants
A special gallery revisits memorable moments from Ballarat’s Dancing With Our Stars charity event, highlighting local personalities who stepped onto the...
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Council Proposes 2.75 Per Cent Rates Increase in Challenging Draft Budget
A Victorian council has unveiled a draft budget featuring a 2.75 per cent rates rise as it seeks to balance growing infrastructure demands, service cost...
Accused Men Plead Guilty Over 'Terrifying' Maryborough Home Invasion
Two men have admitted their roles in a violent home invasion that left a Maryborough couple traumatised after being threatened and humiliated inside the...
Gordon star’s ankle injury threatens CHFL season as Eagles battle mounting setbacks
Gordon Football Netball Club is facing a major setback after one of its star players underwent surgery for a serious ankle injury that could sideline the athlete for an extended...
Fraudster sentenced over fake Facebook Marketplace scams
Serial fraudster Dean Parry has learned his fate in court after running multiple scams through Facebook Marketplace and a fake scrap metal operation. Prosecutors said Parry adve...
Four days of Hidden Histories draws thousands to Ballarat Heritage Festival
City’s past comes alive through storytelling, art, and community events
Mitchell Litchfield’s guilty plea for arson during total fire ban
Ballarat man admits lighting fire in breach of statewide ban
Art Gallery of Ballarat Hosts Exclusive Pre-Raphaelites Exhibition from Oxford
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is presenting the internationally acclaimed Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours exhibition, featuring delicate and rarely seen artworks from the...
Scott Morrison joins Prime Ministers Avenue at Ballarat Botanical Gardens
Prime Ministers Avenue at Ballarat Botanical Gardens. Former prime minister Scott Morrison has been commemorated with the unveiling of a bronze bust at Ballarat Botanical Garden...
Loreto bus crash driver seeks leave to appeal ‘excessive’ jail sentence
The truck driver behind the wheel of a prime mover that collided with a Loreto school bus on the Western Freeway has applied for leave to appeal his prison sentence, which excee...
‘Unacceptable’: police forced to drop charges after major evidence bungle
Serious questions have emerged over the reliability of police evidence after a burglary prosecution was abruptly dropped in a Ballarat courtroom. The case collapsed when a magis...