Lake Grace-Pingrup have added a State country star and WAFL premiership player to their side as they aim for more flag glory when the new Ongerup Football Association season begins on Saturday.
Cameron Newbold
The Tongan Acting High Commissioner has visited the small Great Southern town of Katanning for a chat about filling its labour gaps.
Claire Middleton
WA farmers are making their stamp on State Parliament, with six of the Liberal and Nationals’ new shadow ministry hailing from properties in the Wheatbelt, Mid West and South West.
Cally Dupe
Four Great Southern products have featured in Claremont’s pulsating draw with Peel Thunder to kick off their 2025 WAFL campaign on Saturday.
Josh Kempton and Cameron Newbold
Emily Wray and Zoe Keley created history on Saturday night, becoming the first joint winners of the Great Southern Football League Women’s highest individual honour.
More than 50 orcas were seen taking down a lone young blue whale off the shores of Bremer Bay on Monday, in an ‘incredibly rare’ display of a successful orca hunt.
Georgia Campion
Denmark’s iconic arts markets are coming back with organisers calling for stall holders and volunteers to help run the revival on April 19. After a three-year hiatus, they are heading home to Berridge Park.
Deanmill started the Lower South West Football League season on Saturday with a statement of intent, taking down reigning premiers Boyup Brook at Boyup Brook Oval.
Josh Kempton
Busy women with full lives are still finding time to make three-hour round trips for midweek tennis pennants, saying the social experience is as important as the competitive one.
Shai Bolton admits it will feel weird to play against Richmond, but says he’s ‘used to the purple now’ as the dual premiership Tiger prepares to face his former side for the first time.
Samantha Rogers
A Ravensthorpe woman who spent nearly $2000 on someone else’s credit card and stole hundreds of dollars in groceries from the town’s small IGA has avoided an immediate jail term.
Jacki Elezovich
Gnowangerup’s supermarket manager has revealed the terrifying moment she fought to stop her store from burning down and the relentless push to set up a temporary grocery store in its stead.
Melissa Sheil
Former Greens leader Giz Watson is returning to contest the seat of O’Connor at the Federal election, with advocacy for the environment and social justice at the forefront of her campaign.
Narrogin is among seven finalists in the Small Tourism Town category for the 7NEWS Top Tourism Awards, competing against the likes of Exmouth and York.
A Kimberley pastoralist who launched her own fashion label has won the WA rural women’s award and will use a $15,000 bursary to try to incorporate Australian cotton and wool blends into her designs.
The Nationals have announced Manjimup farmer and teacher Heidi Tempra as their candidate for O’Connor in the upcoming Federal election.
Fifth-generation Amelup farmer Darren Moir has been chosen as the Labor candidate to take on Liberal incumbent Rick Wilson in the seat of O’Connor at the upcoming Federal election.
Neil Watkinson
Liberal incumbent Rick Wilson on Friday slammed Labor for dragging its feet in announcing an O’Connor candidate for the upcoming Federal election — just hours before his opponent was revealed.
Tegan Guthrie
Albany’s recreational fishers are hauling in a bumper catch of dolphinfish thanks to an extra strong Leeuwin Current and fish aggregation devices attracting the warm water species to the south coast.
A Katanning woman who stole plants, threatened an officer with a pot plant and assaulted two police officers has been jailed.
Hannah Whitehead
Breaking the urban-regional divide has been on many leaders’ agendas, making regional people and their communities a critical diversity to unlock and include.
Kendall Galbraith
Towns Cricket Club have broken a lengthy B-grade premiership drought with a thrilling seven-run win over Cuballing in the grand final on March 22.
Reigning Lower South West Football League premiers Boyup Brook will start their season at home when they come up against Deanmill at Boyup Brook Oval on Saturday.
A new Katanning University Study Hub opened its doors last Monday, promoting further education support and accessibility in the regions.
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