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The City of Ballarat is calling for funding support from the Victorian and Australian governments to build the next stage of Ballarat Link Road.  And Ballarat Mayor Daniel Moloney said Ballarat residents can help keep the project moving by giving their feedback at the City of Ballarat’s mysay site.  “This is an important project for residents and businesses, not just...

The Sturt Street doors to the Ballarat Town Hall will reopen today for the first time since they were closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Town Hall will open with the Visitor Centre returning to the site to provide assistance to visitors.  The Phoenix building has recently been home to the Visitor Centre while maintenance works were carried out in the Town Hall.  It’s the first time the Sturt Street doors of...

Active Ballarat Action Plan adopted

City of Ballarat Council has appointed Evan King as the permanent Chief Executive Officer of the City of Ballarat following a two-month executive search.  Mayor Daniel Moloney said while the search was conducted nationally by recruitment firm McArthur and attracted executive-level applicants from across Victoria and interstate, the stand-out candidate was found close to home.&nbs...

To celebrate the return of the AFL premiership season in Ballarat, The Bull-Doggie-Do is back!   Ballarat’s four-legged bulldogs, and their owners, are invited to the fourth annual Bull-Doggie-Do event on Saturday 3 April for a morning of doggy delight in the Bridge Mall.   The free event will be held from 10.30am to 12.00pm at the Bridge Mall Farmer’s Market Ea...

Ballarat’s signature festival, the Ballarat Begonia Festival, was celebrated citywide in March with new installations and weekend entertainment hailed a success by traders and visitors alike.  Festival activity previously centralised at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, this year was relocated to the heart of our City in support of local business....

The hunt is on for Ballarat’s best ideas! Local company Suggest It has joined forces with the City of Ballarat, Commerce Ballarat and Committee for Ballarat to capture great ideas for our business community by harnessing local, crowd‐sourced innovation. A three-week competition from 17 April to 14 May will see customers use a digital suggestion box to leave their ideas for participating businesses. The ideas must be positive, constructiv...

Ballarat wakes up Green and Black

In 2022 our city is ready for more of Ballarat’s Best Ideas.  The City of Ballarat is proud to join forces with local company Suggest it for the second year to capture great ideas for the business community by harnessing local, crowd‐sourced innovation.  A six‐week competition from 8 March – 19 April 2022 will see customers use a digital suggestion box to leave ideas for participating businesses.  At the end of the competi...

The City of Ballarat is working to secure critical funding for a number of priority projects in the lead up to the federal election, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced will be held on 21 May.  Ballarat voters will go to the polls a second time later this year, with the Victorian election due on the last Saturday in November.  City of Ballarat is taking a two-pronged approach to lobbying the Federal and Victorian Gov...