Ballarat, Australia News

LAKE Wendouree weeds may cease to be the scourge of Ballarat residents after an innovative study into bioenergy looks into using wet waste to produce fuel.

"AN issue whose time has come" was how Labor MP Stephen Jones yesterday described the need to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia.

The surgeons found that the cancer had spread to both the ovaries, the omentum - a fold of the tissue lining the abdomen that surrounds the organs - and the lymphatic glands.

Goldacres fits Allison's 2500 Series transmission in its Crop Cruiser Evolution sprayer at its manufacturing operation at Ballarat in rural Victoria, approximately 100km from Melbourne, Australia.

CHILLY conditions and drizzling rain failed to dampen the spirits of riders who competed in the inaugural Spokes Festival during the weekend.

BALLARAT carpentry apprentice Stephen Dolling will fly to Sydney in August to compete in the national final of the WorldSkills Australia competition.

In Ballarat last week to raise awareness of the condition and to promote her recent biography of her mother Hazel, the daughter of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke said she believed many sufferers still did not receive the best care.

THE Art Gallery of Ballarat hosted more than 113,000 visitors last year, with major exhibitions seeing a 5 per cent increase on 2010 attendance.

A recent study published by The Lancet suggests that males with a certain variant on their Y-chromosome are at a 50% higher risk of developing coronary artery disease .

THE Australian Ex-Prisoners of War memorial in Ballarat's Botanical Gardens will be restored to its original design, with plans for its water component to be reactivated.

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The Pride of Ballarat series aims to identify the attractions, events and facets of Ballarat that make our city great through your votes.

THE latest acquisition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat brought curators more than they expected, revealing a secret compartment with a historic banknote.

A thief who found child porn on a stolen mobile phone has been jailed after handing himself in to police.

A survey conducted as part of The Courier's Pride of Ballarat series saw Lal Lal receive 37 per cent of votes, surprisingly edging our Lake Wendouree which secured 32 per cent of the vote.

A MAN stole and damaged two of his friends' cars after he was kicked out of a Ballarat nightclub and his friends weren't, a court has heard.

NICOLE Bodman was just a young girl of 17 when she saw Queen Elizabeth II on her maiden visit to Australia.

Yesterday's eighth anniversary service at Ballarat's Australian ex-Prisoners of War Memorial drew a strong crowd of war heroes, their families and members of the public.

AUSTRALIAN Catholic University Ballarat student James Burke has always wanted to help fight diseases in tropical areas, but he got more than he bargained for on a recent trip to Uganda when he came down with malaria.

A few weeks ago I attended linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, Australia. I've attended it for many years now and the conference has always been a great place to see what other people are doing with open source, discover new things I want to play with when I get back, and generally feel it's okay to be a huge open source nerd.