Today is October 9, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, the Victorian Farmers Federation has renewed its calls for the Victorian government to release the revised business case for the Murray Basin Rail Project, and parents struggling with the demands of babies and toddlers will have an extra service to call on after the state government announced a new multi-million dollar early parenting centre will be built in Ballarat.

Today is October 8, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, hundreds of Ballarat VCE students sat the first of their final exams on Wednesday when the much-delayed General Achievement Test was finally held, and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says now is not the time to play politics over the federal government's carving up of infrastructure spending.

Today is October 7, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, the state government has announced $545,000 in funding for Talbot Place in central Ballarat as part of a $30 million aged care initiative across the state, and there are no longer any active COVID-19 cases west of Melbourne, according to the latest health department figures.

Today is October 6, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, the Northern Territory will ease travel restrictions on regional Victoria from next month after it "crushed" the coronavirus, and could do the same for metropolitan Melbourne, and another local life has been tragically taken and another family left shattered as police fear a worrying post-lockdown trend is continuing on Ballarat roads.

Today is October 5, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, there are now three active COVID-19 cases in regional Victoria, according to the latest health department figures with a new case confirmed in Mitchell Shire on Sunday, and planning work is continuing for the establishment of a Foodbank Hub in Ballarat that would improve access to fresh and staple food for regional charities.

Today is October 2, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, Premier Daniel Andrews has given his strongest indication yet that any changes in regional Victoria are still some time away, and although locked-down Victorians are spending less time outside, health authorities are urging people to start being wary of deadly thunderstorm asthma.

Today is October 1, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, there’s a new home for the playground from the recently closed Happy Jack's with Pinarc Disability Support purchasing the play equipment, and there are no plans to further ease COVID-19 restrictions immediately in regional Victoria, despite scant evidence of the virus outside of Melbourne.

Today is September 30, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, hospital visiting hours are back on at the Ballarat Base Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Centre with a slight relaxing of rules set to give families some peace of mind, and a massive injection of funding will help establish a new renewable energy centre within Federation University.

Today is September 29, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, Ballarat's Brad Crouch and Adelaide Crows teammate Tyson Stengle have allegedly been caught in possession of illicit drugs, and the number of active COVID-19 cases in regional Victoria remained at nine on Monday, the same day Melbourne advanced to the 'second step' of the roadmap to recovery.

Today is September 28, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, the number of active COVID-19 cases in regional Victoria has dropped to nine as Melbourne advance to the 'second step' of the roadmap to recovery, and thousands of commercial and backyard chicken owners in Golden Plains have been allowed to reopen their coop doors after a bird flu lockdown.