Great Southern trio Taylah Orzel, Megan Green and Emma Henderson are set to line-up for Claremont in Sunday’s WAFLW grand final against Swan Districts at Mineral Resources Park in Perth.
Claire Middleton
Shire of Denmark rangers have tracked down the owners of two dogs who allegedly attacked a cyclist on the Nornalup Rail Trail last week, after appealing to the public for information on Tuesday.
Jacki Elezovich
Organisers are gearing up for another year of the Community Bank Albany Big Sleep Out, the well-known annual event to combat homelessness in Albany aiming to raise more than $50,000.
The clash on Sunday between Denmark-Walpole and Royals will define both their seasons as the battle for the last Great Southern Football League finals berth goes to the wire.
One of the Great Southern’s most popular art events is set to return to the region this September, with the Southern Art and Craft Trail opening on September 27.
Hundreds of women in WA’s farming and agriculture industry flocked to the sold out Women in Farming 2025 event to learn, trade experiences, and network.
Georgia Campion
Katanning farmers laced up their sneakers on Sunday morning for a running event to bring the community together, with more than 200 competitors taking to the farm track for a different kind of morning run.
The Lower Great Southern Hockey Association’s Cancer Awareness Round on August 16 opened with the women’s Retravision B-grade contest between Spencer Park sides Light and Dark.
A highly awarded Gnowangerup-bred Poll Merino ram offered by the House family of Barloo stud sold to a top of $26,000 at the Rabobank WA Sheep Show & Sale.
Bob Garnant
WA Merino field days combined with the Rabobank WA Sheep Expo & Ram Sale had 35 studs displaying and or showing Merino and Poll Merinos at various locations throughout the Great Southern.
The Albany Hockey Stadium was filled with pink balloons as players, supporters and volunteers remembered two stalwarts of the game in the Lower Great Southern Hockey Association’s Cancer Awareness Round.
An artisanal gifts store is the latest Albany business to close up shop, with the owner citing high rents, slow foot traffic and a focus on major chains as reasons for the troubling trend.
Melissa Sheil
A Mt Barker woman who assaulted her neighbour with a mug, breaking his eye socket and slicing open a facial wound that required 90 stitches and three plastic surgeries, has been handed jail time.
Noongar artist Doug Roberts started painting after watching a family member and his spur of the moment decision to give it a try turned into a lifelong hobby that has been a way to give back to his community.
North Albany won the 25th Jo Burling Memorial Match which celebrates the life of a Lower Great Southern Hockey Association stalwart who died of breast cancer at the age of 42.
Magpies 1 secured their finals berth in the Albany Netball Association after surviving a last-quarter Bullets 1 fightback in round 12 of the A1 competition on Saturday.
Boddington and Kukerin-Dumbleyung snared the last two spots in the finals after an enthralling final round of the 2025 Upper Great Southern Football League competition on Sunday.
Cameron Newbold and Hannah Whitehead
From live music to creative workshops, here’s your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern.
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Goal machine Libby Morris helped Albany Caledonian secure the Great Southern Soccer Association senior women’s league title and was named MVP in the annual Brenda McCann testimonial match on August 15.
Albany authors, creatives and community members filled the Albany Town Hall on August 13 to launch the second edition of the Voices of the South anthology, celebrating local writing talent.
Jessica Brouwer bought her Lower King home after seeing it on the internet and without a proper viewing because she was worried another property would slip through her grasp.
Mt Barker’s Jethro Wright and Albany’s Ben Blechynden were in the WA State schoolboys’ team which came fourth in the under-15 national championships in Canberra.
A loyal and passionate Wagin Football Club member has been rewarded for his tireless dedication to the sport with WA Football’s young volunteer of the year award.
Hannah Whitehead
After decades of service in his hometown, a Katanning volunteer firefighter realised his long-harboured dream earlier this year when he was sent to help fight wildfires in the Canadian province of Alberta.
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