Thursday, March 31, 2016

Woman arrested over cyclist hit-and-run in Ballarat and other top stories.

  • Woman arrested over cyclist hit-and-run in Ballarat

    Woman arrested over cyclist hit-and-run in Ballarat
    Woman arrested over cyclist hit-and-run in Ballarat Updated March 31, 2016 17:35:20 A 23-year-old woman has been arrested following a hit-and-run involving a cyclist in Ballarat last week.The collision happened about 6:20am on Friday after a car allegedly veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit the cyclist before driving off.A 36-year-old man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.The arrest came after police released CCTV footage that appeared to s..
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  • 'Live' war grenade prompts evacuation of Gold Museum near ...

    'Live' war grenade prompts evacuation of Gold Museum near ...
    The bomb scare happened at the Ballarat Gold Museum which is opposite popular tourist attraction Sovereign Hill. Photo: Jane Reddy An antique grenade prompted the evacuation of the Gold Museum near Victoria's Sovereign Hill on Wednesday.The tourist attraction in Ballarat was evacuated and roads in the area were closed for about half an hour from 2.45pm on Wednesday, after a staff member found an antique grenade in the museum's storeroom.The Victoria Police bo..
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  • Who is off to Ballarat?

    Who is off to Ballarat?
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  • Victorian first home buyers moving to regional cities for affordable ...

    Victorian first home buyers moving to regional cities for affordable ...
    Zoe Cleverdon and her partner James Newton were living like many young Melburnians — squeezed into an inner-city sharehouse with six people — when they first started entertaining the idea of moving out of Melbourne. While Mr Newton was a country boy from Beechworth, Ms Cleverdon had grown up in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and was nervous about the tree change.  “I actually got really emotional at first and said, ‘I don’t want to move, it’s a horrible idea,” Ms Cleverdon said. First home bu..
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  • City's growth down on target

    City's growth down on target
    Ballarat’s growth has slowed, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data has shown Coming down. PICTURE: Kate HealyBallarat’s growth has slowed, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data has shown. In both the local government area and within the city’s border the population grew 1.3 per cent, to 103,879 and 101,578 respectively to the end of last year, compared with 2014. The City of Ballarat’s growth target is 2000 people a year. The ABS said 1338 people arrived in 2015. But severa..
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  • Josh Pyke Announces Extensive Regional Tour

    Josh Pyke Announces Extensive Regional Tour
    music > News Josh Pyke Announces Extensive Regional Tour Josh Pyke Mar 31st 2016 | 5:34pm | Staff Writer Tweet ARIA Award-winning artist Josh Pyke has announced a 32-date tour across some of the country's most remote stages. The esteemed Australian songwriter will be back on the road from late May, after only recently finishing his last tour in February with sold-out shows at Melbourne Zoo and Taronga Zoo. This follows Pyke's freshly minted appointment to the board of the PPCA — aka the..
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  • Powercor switches on Australia's biggest grid-scale battery storage

    Powercor switches on Australia's biggest grid-scale battery storage
    Victoria network operator Powercor on Wednesday switched on Australia’s largest grid-scale battery storage installation south of Ballarat, where it will provide 3,000 customers with up to one hour of back-up power during a power outage. The 2MW battery storage facility is the first of its kind to be directly connected to a grid in Australia. Housed in a 40-foot shipping container, it was officially switched on by Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio, although it won’t be “fully operational”..
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Social media support for Ballarat cyclist hurt in hit-run .Too cute to eat? PNG villagers encouraged to eat guinea pigs instead of native species .
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