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Dr Pramanik Kumar and his team, Brodie, Jacinta and Nicole welcome residents to their newly opened dental clinic.

Dental care expands in Ararat

RESIDENTS needing dental treatment have a new option with Ararat Family Dental recently opening its doors at 146 Barkly Street.

8 July, 2026

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Ararat based Dr Pieter Pretorius won the Outstanding Contribution By a Mentor or Supervisor category at last week’s Victorian Rural Health Awards.

Top honour for Dr Pretorius

Thousands of people have lost mobile service as a Telstra outage causes disruption around the nation.

Local News

Chaos as Telstra outage halts trains, transactions, 000

A vandal has caused traffic chaos after scaling a 140-metre pillar on a major city bridge

Local News

Graffiti vandal dangles from bridge as police negotiate

Haydn and Lucy Black are up for "Dark Horse Winery of the Year" in the Halliday Companion Awards.

Great Western News

Grampians wineries up for top awards

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The Ararat RSL team at last night's awards ceremony.

Top awards for the Mess and Barracks

The largest synchronous condenser in Australia is currently operating at Elmhurst.

Elmhurst project strengthens grid for renewables

Verity and Larni from Ararat hairdressers The Room support Zavier Sullivan with his Push Up Challenge.

Zavier makes a push for mental health

Ararat Hospital nurses Tayla Mounsey, Annette Manning and Tomoko Parker will soon bee assisted by additional nursing staff under a reclassification of the hospital by the Victorian Government.

More nurses for Ararat under hospital reclassification

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Mayor Bob Sanders presided over last year’s celebration at Ararat Gallery TAMA.

Ararat prepares to celebrate NADOC Week

Steps have been taken to improve safety around the burnt out shops in Ingor Street however there are no plans to rebuild at this stage.

No movement on town eyesore

Regional Australia for Refugees members gather with refugees who have found their home in Ararat.

Refugee Week celebrates a million stories

With a small team of staff and reduced opening days, Ararat's ANZ bank may be the first domino to fall.

Is regional banking on its last legs?

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