The closure on the main route between Perth and Albany comes over the WA Day long weekend, when thousands of travellers will use the highway to travel between the two locations.
Jacki Elezovich
Emergency services rescued a hiker from the Stirling Range National Park on Saturday, with crews from around the Great Southern working together to complete the eight-hour rescue.
Fifth-term Federal Liberal MP Rick Wilson says he is disappointed to have been dumped from the shadow cabinet under new Liberal leader Sussan Ley but will continue advocating for livestock producers.
Melissa Sheil
Katanning local Dillon Clay has been named Australia’s top agricultural tyre fitter taking out the agricultural and off-road category in the inaugural Tyre Fitter of the Year awards.
A business which started through a mix of family loyalty, optimism and naivety is celebrating 25 years of producing some of the best grape varieties in the Great Southern region.
Claire Middleton
Marrying natural beauty with pragmatic place making has earned the designers of the Middleton Beach foreshore an award of excellence from the WA Chapter of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Kojonup gun on fire to boot 12 goals in Cougars mauling of Imperials in LSWFL, the new Bring Ya Boots podcast bringing to life great country footy stories and top recognition for passionate Railways president.
Cameron Newbold
Mark Adams is among the hundreds of farmers at his wit’s end after trying to navigate the State Government’s new online portal to help gun owners comply with sweeping new changes to WA gun laws.
Cally Dupe
Albany SES volunteer Ben Whittle has taken out the top award at the Great Southern’s Volunteer of the Year Awards with a range of community organisations and individuals recognised on the night.
Wheatbelt farmers had their hopes dashed at the weekend when rainfall failed to hit double digits, while parts of the South West and south coast have had their prayers answered.
Melissa Pedelty
Labor has made a major concession on its firearm laws, joining all non-Government parties in referring the regime to a parliamentary inquiry.
Dylan Caporn
A ruthless Narrogin snared their fourth victory in a row to climb to second place on the 2025 Upper Great Southern Football League ladder, thumping Kukerin-Dumbleyung at Clayton Road Oval on Sunday.
Cameron Newbold and Hannah Whitehead
Teams settled into their groove after a busy opening month with round five of the Katanning Netball Association held on Saturday.
Tina Briscoe
Kojonup recorded the biggest win of the Lower South West Football League season at Kojonup Sporting Complex on Saturday, demolishing Imperials by 190 points.
Josh Kempton
Former member for the agricultural region and MLC Shelley Payne thanks her constituents in Katanning, Narrogin and surrounds.
Shelley Payne
Gnowangerup produced a dominant second half on their way to a commanding fourth win of the 2025 Ongerup Football Association league competition.
A former member of WA’s Upper House has labelled O’Connor as “Australia’s dumbest electorate” for re-electing Liberal MP Rick Wilson, who has hit back at the “appalling comments”.
Georgia Campion
First time national championship competitor Lisa Shalders returned to Wagin with two 2025 Australian titles under her saddle after competing in New South Wales.
Hannah Whitehead
A panel of Aboriginal elders gave emotional accounts of their experiences as members of the Stolen Generation at a National Sorry Day symposium at Albany Entertainment Centre on Monday.
The Shire of Woodanilling’s new chief executive Anika Serer has jumped on board to help bring the community’s “shared vision” to life.
West Coast recruit Liam Baker has learnt his fate over an ugly forearm to the back of Adelaide midfielder James Peatling’s head on Sunday.
Aaron Kirby
Seven longarm firearms and ammunition were taken.
The decision to approve one of six renewable energy projects in Narrogin has been delayed with a representative for the e-battery proponent calling the shire’s conditions “problematic”.
A man who tried to knife an off-duty cop outside his own home has been jailed in a case that speaks to the risks of regional policing.
Eliza Kavanagh
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