Seven division two yachts and Geoff Oliver’s division one Excitabull contested a handicap start harbour course race in beautiful autumn weather with a south-easterly that never reached 12 knots.
Harry Grigson
The final details of next month’s consultation on Albany’s trading hours are almost locked in with a community survey set to assess the city’s appetite for permanently extending them.
Stuart McGuckin
O’Connor MP Rick Wilson has hit out at the Federal Government for continuing to make regions wait for funding, months on from Growing Regions Program round-one applications closing.
New details have emerged in court over an alleged stabbing that left a man in a life-threatening condition in March, revealing the victim was stabbed four times with a small paring knife in a Kendenup home.
Georgia Campion
A historic century-old estate on the doorstep of Porongurup National Park with more than 20 separate dwellings is up for grabs for the first time in 30 years.
Melissa Sheil
A Jerramungup man already in prison has been jailed for an extra eight months for persistent family violence towards his ex-wife often in front of their three children.
The Advertiser brings you Around The Leagues, taking a look at football stories of players and personalities from the Great Southern, Ongerup and Upper Great Southern regions.
The Lower King Progress Association celebrated a successful Autumn Produce Show at the weekend with more than 120 entries across 41 seniors and junior classes.
TEDxKinjarling is calling for big thinkers in the Great Southern with “ideas that can change the world” to “throw your hat in the ring” and apply to speak at the upcoming conference.
A host of local eager grommets will march into the waves clutching their surfboards for Albany Boardriders’ annual Junior Wavefest this weekend.
Twelve years on from Sunday retail trading becoming the norm in the Perth metropolitan area, the City of Albany is the largest local government to so far resist its own change.
The much-vaunted Rising Stars 2024 report by Canstar and Hotspotting ranks includes ten Perth suburbs in the list of 110 rising stars around the nation.
Kim Macdonald
The ATO has confirmed the 2024 superannuation thresholds will rise in line with predictions made in Your Money more than a month ago. Here’s everything you need to know and how to play the changes.
Nick Bruining
AFL expert Danielle Laidley runs the rule over every West Coast Eagle after a huge win and Fremantle Docker after another heartbreaker in round five. Here’s who starred and who struggled.
Danielle Laidley
They may not be in the same league as Leederville or Mount Lawley yet, but it’s only a matter of time before these Perth suburbs undergo the same trendy transformation. SEE THE SURPRISING LIST.
Raquel de Brito
Three men who carried out a violent home invasion, in which they bashed and robbed a grandmother while her husband was bound, are still on the run. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE
Lauren Price
A high-profile defamation lawyer representing Linda Reynolds has been fined heftily for professional misconduct after airing protected health information.
Claire Sadler
A 10-year-old Indigenous boy has taken his own life while in the care of the State Government.
A traveller has been fined after he was caught with tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of undeclared currency before departing on an overseas flight from Perth.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE. Sickening details have emerged after a suburban home invasion in which a couple was viciously assaulted by a trio posing as police officers.
Historical child sexual abuse allegations at Esperance Primary School from the late 1960s to late 1970s are being pursued by a legal firm which is appealing for potential witnesses to get in touch.
Tegan Guthrie
The Community Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service hub at the Homemakers Centre in Bunbury officially opened last week to service the South West’s youngest community members.
Sean Van Der Wielen
Former long-standing Shire of Dardanup councillor Carmel Boyce has raised concerns over the current council’s decision to increase their pay by double-digit figures in 2024/25.
It was a lively Wednesday morning in Yornup, when more than 250 people turned up to Yornup Hall for a farmers’ meeting hosted by WAFarmers.
The Regional Joint Development Assessment Panel has narrowly voted to approve a proposed sand mine on Skippings Road in Boyanup, despite concerns from nearby landowners.
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says the US economy, while otherwise strong, has not seen inflation come back to the central bank’s goal.
Jeff Cox
People with more money than their peers often ask you to transfer comically small amounts of money.
Aditi Shrikant
A majority of workers know the feeling of wanting to retract an email right after they’ve sent it, and the youngest professionals are the most likely to feel email regret.
Jennifer Liu
Oil prices could soar to $US100 per barrel and beyond, said market watchers, after Iran mounted an aerial attack against Israel reigniting fears of a regional war.
Lee Ying Shan
Aboriginal Legal Service WA boss Wayne Nannup has lambasted the State Government over the death of a 10-year-old boy, saying the trauma experienced by vulnerable Aboriginal children in care is ‘extreme’.
Hannah Cross
An older adult has died after being diagnosed with deadly meningococcal disease, with two more adults recovering in hospital.
Bethany Hiatt
The driver has been fined after running over a kindergarten student on a Scarborough footpath, with the boy’s father saying the penalty was ‘never going to be enough’ for the trauma his son has endured.
Roger Cook has insisted that all WA public schools will remain open when teachers strike to protest about salaries and conditions on Tuesday.
A note left behind by a man who died alongside his wife in a suspected murder-suicide on Sunday has emerged as a key piece of evidence - as police rule out any third party involvement in the tragedy.
Ricky Hirsch – the self-proclaimed ‘property tycoon’ and globetrotting playboy whose collapsing empire has left investors and lenders millions of dollars out of pocket – is being sued.
Emily Moulton
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