Today is December 21, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, the Victorian premier has announced new rules and border restrictions in an effort to try and stop NSW's latest COVID outbreak spreading to Victoria, and Victoria's Local Government Inspectorate, or LGI, has released its annual report for 2019-2020, stating it investigated one in five of the complaints made to it by the public over the year.

Today is December 18, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, the generosity of community members and organisations in Ballarat is supporting world class healthcare research, and a $4.46 million contract for the construction for a giant new cell at Smythesdale landfill was signed off by councillors on Wednesday.

Today is December 17, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, Jill Hennessy has announced she will immediately step down from her role as Victoria's attorney-general but intends to contest the next state election, and two giant rubber duckies made safety time so much fun at Lake Wendouree on Wednesday.

Today is December 16, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, local residents and politicians at all levels have joined forces to protest against the planned closure of Sebastopol's only post office, and a leasing agent says a new prime restaurant or bar operation would make a worthy investment at the former Hog's Breath Cafe site in Bakery Hill.

Today is December 15, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, new cases of type two diabetes in western Victoria are occurring higher than the national average, new data shows, and the mystery of what happened to Ballarat woman Kobie Parfitt will last at least another day after investigators failed to uncover any trace of the 43-year-old, despite a search of rugged bushland near Snake Valley on Monday.

Today is December 14, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, Ballarat's night life has jumped up another notch with nightclubs able to reopen this weekend after the easing of COVID restrictions, and a group of Ballarat leaders is making a desperate callout for a Ballarat site to develop a compassionate response to housing for people with chronic mental illness.

Today is December 11, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, hundreds of properties were left without power yesterday afternoon after power outrages stretching from Cressy to Avoca, including parts of Ballarat, and two men have miraculously avoided serious injury after a spectacular truck rollover on Daylesford Road, Brown Hill on Thursday morning.

Today is December 10, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, a man from the Ballarat district has been killed in a machinery accident in the NSW town of Howlong, just north of the Victorian border near Albury, and paramedic shortages in Ballarat are leaving surrounding towns without ambulance coverage as crews are called in to town to cover emergency callouts.

Today is December 9, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, a proposed federal industrial relations omnibus bill provides heavy penalties for employers convicted of wage theft but also leaves casual workers vulnerable to having less rights, in a classic case of a good compromise leaving every party unsatisfied, and plans for a new office block and warehouse just off Sturt Street are currently being advertised.

Today is December 8, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Courier. In today’s update, police will prepare a report for the Coroner after a man died in hospital from injuries sustained in a crash near Maryborough two weeks ago, and a freak weather event that officials say could have been a tornado has left multiple homes in Horsham severely damaged and one without a roof entirely.