22/07/2008 | Early Monday Ballarat firefighters were called to help contain a fire that destroyed hay valued at $1.5 million.
The fodder had been destined for the export market.
18/07/2008 | THE Courier's BFL reporter Gavin McGrath talks to general manager of the Ballarat Football Umpires' Association, Mark Gray.
11/07/2008 | THE Courier's Ballarat Football League reporter Gavin McGrath previews the round 12 action.
9/07/2008 | CLICK here to see images of the snow that fell around Ballarat on Tuesday.
9/07/2008 | A group of budding shearers and woolhandlers gathered in the University of Ballarat Primary Industries Training Centre's brand new shearing shed to learn their craft. Click here to see pictures from the shearing shed.
7/07/2008 | CLICK here and take yourself ringside at the Ballarat Badminton Stadium where a large crowd saw plenty of boxing action on Saturday night.
4/07/2008 | THE Courier footy writer Gavin McGrath with all you need to know about this round's BFL matches.
29/06/2008 | ASPIRING Socceroos took to the soccer fields of Ballarat on June 28.
27/06/2008 | THE Courier's BFL reporter Gavin McGrath talks to North City coach, Aaron Clark.
22/06/2008 | The Courier's Melanie Whelan goes courtside with star shooter Georgia Cann after Ballarat Pride's emotional 12-goal win at the Wendouree Sports and Events Centre on Saturday night.
Click here for a post-match post-mortem.
20/06/2008 | Gavin McGrath's weekly BFL footy rant
6/06/2008 | BFL reporter Gavin McGrath gives his thoughts on this weekend's BFL games.
30/05/2008 | HUNDREDS of metres beneath Ballarat's streets teams of miners are busy blasting rock in pursuit of gold.
30/05/2008 | THE Courier's Gavin McGrath gives his assessment of this weekend's VCFL Country Championships in Shepparton which will see the Ballarat Football League take on the Hampden, Goulburn, and Ovens and Murray leagues.
27/05/2008 | BALLARAT band She Hates Mondays has won the Austar Nickelodeon program's "Nick Rocks" music contest.
Competing against young bands from across Australia, the duo of Jordyn Smith, 14, and Misha Turnbull, 12, who are also cousins, won over the judges with their song "Wait for Me".
The prize included return flights to Sydney where they recorded their song in the Nick Rocks studio and and shot a music video in the Blue Mountains.
The music video will be premiered on Nickelodeon on June 4.
20/05/2008 | HEAR key points from a recent address to the Rural Press Club by federal Agriculture Minister Tony Burke on the recent budget and its impact on farmers.
19/05/2008 | THE Goldfields Superpipe is switched on, delivering water from north of the Great Dividing Range to Ballarat's White Swan Reservoir.
19/05/2008 | WITH the flick of a switch water poured through the superpipe and into Ballarat's White Swan Reservoir.
9/05/2008 | TAKE a pictorial tour along the Goldfields Superpipe.
The Courier photographers have documented the superpipe from the beginning of construction to its near completion.
Central Highlands Water community relations manager Paul O'Donohue provides commentary as we follow the pipe's path from the Sandhurst Reservoir near Bendigo to Ballarat's White Swan Reservoir.