Around The Leagues: Another Brookton-Pingelly product to make his AFL debut, Mt Barker young gun proudly displays Bulldogs’ Indigenous guernsey and a State game opportunity for a Great Southern star defender.
Cameron Newbold
Grants are on offer to support Aboriginal-led initiatives targeting family and domestic violence prevention, intervention and support.
Anneke de Boer
The mum accused of trying to kill her disabled daughter with insulin admitted to police there were two possible consequences from her actions — that she would ‘go peacefully’ or end up in hospital.
Emily Moulton
WA’s regional areas will see wins in the safety, housing, health and transport industries, following the release of the State Budget on Thursday.
Melissa Sheil
Reigning premiers Katanning Wanderers slipped to a third straight defeat in 2024, mauled at home by a powerful Boddington outfit in round three of the Upper Great Southern Football League season on Sunday.
Katanning Research Facility will receive upgrades to its aging infrastructure, $1.4m in State Budget funding to help the facility keep its position as a “world leader in sheep research”.
Member for Roe and Katanning farmer Peter Rundle has criticised the Federal Government’s sheep export ban, calling the move “devastating” for the agricultural regions.
The WA mother accused of trying to kill her disabled daughter with insulin has told her trial she never intended murder her and only wanted the drug to get her admitted to hospital so she would receive care.
Round two of the 2024 Katanning Netball Association went off without a hitch for all divisions with seven junior teams hitting the court.
Tina Briscoe
A teenager has had his licence disqualified after he was caught doing nearly 150km/h on the Great Southern Highway near Katanning last week.
A shocking number of young doctors witness bullying, discrimination or harassment in the workplace despite overall improvements in the WA Country Health Service.
Oliver Lane
Gnowangerup staged an impressive comeback, erasing an 11-point three-quarter time deficit by booting eight last-quarter goals to power to a 29-point win over Lake Grace-Pingrup last Saturday.
Harry Grigson
Gun owners have handed in more than 10,000 firearms as part of the State Government’s buyback.
Dylan Caporn
A popular Cougar returns Just-in time as his side chalk up first UGSFL win, Royals defender now gracing the oval in the UK and Claremont colts debut to a Ravensthorpe-raised young gun.
Early Saturday mornings are back on at the Katanning Leisure Centre with the highly anticipated Katanning Netball Association returning with eager junior and senior sides hitting the courts.
Kukerin-Dumbleyung notched their first win of the season after producing a commanding display against Wickepin in round two of the Upper Great Southern Football League on Sunday.
Daniel Rooney
The doctor who prescribed the insulin for the mother on trial for allegedly trying to kill her severely disabled daughter has rejected suggestions he offered to administer the drug himself.
Recent showers have provided some much-needed reprieve for WA farmers, and while it may not have offset the record dry spells producers are grappling with, it’s brought optimism to growers.
Olivia Ford & Rebecca Turner
A clinical Tenterden Tennis Club finished undefeated to clinch bragging rights over their regional counterparts at the 2024 Lower Great Southern Tennis Association’s Interclub Challenge last month.
Members of Women in Farming, a professional network on a mission to share knowledge and expertise, have come together in Wagin for their first face-to-face meeting of the year.
Olivia Ford
The Great Southern mother accused of trying to kill her severely disabled daughter by injecting her with insulin allegedly tried to smother her with a pillow months before she administered the lethal dose.
Bolgart Golf Club member Viv Camerer has kept ahead of the pack, and the weather, to take out the 2024 GolfWA Regional Senior Competition Stableford championship at the Katanning Country Club on May 2 and 3.
A groundbreaking exhibition honouring the legacy of the late Noongar artist Bella Kelly and featuring works by her daughter, artist Caroline Narkle, is heading to Katanning.
WA is now the national leader in farmland value growth by a country mile, with new figures revealing the median price per hectare for the State hit a record high of $6225 last year.
Adam Poulsen