The annual polar plunge for Special Olympics WA, organised by Albany police has raised more than $8000 with 45 locals taking the icy plunge off Middleton Beach jetty for a good cause.
Jacki Elezovich
Spurred on by the 200-game milestone of one of their most loyal servants, Denmark-Walpole produced a brilliant final term to come from the clouds and knock off Royals by 17 points on Saturday.
Cameron Newbold
A man who allegedly threatened to kill a newsagency staff member if she did not ‘kneel and behave’ after waving a star picket around in a carpark, has been denied bail.
Melissa Sheil
Mt Barker booted home a crushing win over North Albany at Sounness Park in round 10 of the Great Southern Football League on Saturday, running away with the contest by 101 points.
Road upgrades and flagship recreation projects headline the City of Albany’s draft 2025-26 budget, which includes one of its largest ever capital works programs and forecasts a rate hike for rural landholders.
Australian idol Kevin Bloody Wilson is making his return to WA next year with a stop in the South West.
Craig Duncan
Reigning premiers Albany found their teeth to hand Railways their first loss of the season, stumbling to a six-goal defeat in the NAIDOC Round at the Keep the Sheep Stadium on Saturday.
Claire Middleton
A celebrated Albany artist has indicated she will fight a string of fraud charges, including knowingly possessing and uttering counterfeit money.
A man accused of breaking into and burgling two Centennial Park businesses in May has denied the charges in his latest court appearance.
Retired Manypeaks farmer Lloyd Field turned 100 on July 12 and celebrated at Albany’s Hawthorn House with friends and family.
Great Southern ball magnet Morgan Davies became the third winner of the Jim Hull Medal in representative football, claiming the honour at this year’s Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships.
Emotions ran high at the opening of the Great Southern’s first artificial surf reef on Wednesday as the project’s key movers and shakers reflected on the hard-won fight to establish the reef.
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Tegwen Bescoby
‘Brave intrepid travellers’ have caught a glimpse of a light dusting of snow in the Great Southern as temperatures dive and cold winds blow.
Caleb Runciman and Joseph Cassidy
The heartbroken family of a mother-of-three killed when her car was hit by a train in WA’s Great Southern have launched a fundraiser to support her husband and children now left behind.
Dylan Caporn
Claremont reclaimed second place and got a valuable percentage boost with an 87-point thrashing of Subiaco as the race for top three spot heats up.
Mitchell Woodcock
A 21-year-old woman has been charged over an alleged hit-and-run that killed a beloved Albany nurse.
Community and not-for-profit organisations in WA’s southern regions have one week left to apply for a new round of funding aiming to support activities and events which benefit the community.
Jessica Antoniou
The Great Southern’s conveyor belt of young football talent will be on show on Saturday night when Claremont brings their colts team to Albany for the annual WAFL showpiece at Retravision Stadium.
Claremont captain Declan Mountford will make his long-awaited comeback from a shoulder injury as coach Ash Prescott swung the axe in the wake of their loss to ladder-leaders South Fremantle.
There was a remarkable four-way tie in the Bud Byfield Medal as part of the highly successful Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships in Perth last week.
Albany police have successfully located a 77-year-old woman who had not been seen for a day.
Great Southern Storm went agonisingly close to a win at the Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships in Perth, losing two of their four games but under five points last week.
Great Southern’s title-winning coach Glynn Verbruggen praised his side’s squad mentality after pulling off a brilliant division two victory at the Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships.
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