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A BUILDING company at the heart of the stalled Ararat prison redevelopment has offered its first explanation for the collapse of the $394 million project, claiming it was doomed by the Brumby ...

A STRUGGLING sub-contractor who is owed $250,000 for work on the troubled Ararat prison project says it appears he has been barred from another government project after it learnt of his predicament.

But the government has refused to help small-business owners left out of pocket by the fiasco who have been forced to lay off workers. Work on the $400 million jail upgrade stopped in May when St ...

THE Baillieu government has come under attack over its refusal to disclose the public cost of its deal with banks to salvage the redevelopment of Ararat prison.

But the construction union fears the deal still gives no guarantee to subcontractors owed hundreds of thousands of dollars that they will be paid all they are owed. The $400 million jail upgrade has ...

THE political pressure on Premier Ted Baillieu to intervene in the stalled $400 million redevelopment of Ararat prison has increased dramatically with federal Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten ...

Two people from the Triad were among three people sentenced to federal prison following an armed bank robbery in Ararat last year.Whitney Nicole Ceasar, 20, of Mount Airy, was sentenced Friday to 30 ...