A terrific race is developing between the leading contenders in the Great Southern Football League coaches’ player of the year award. See the voting for rounds seven to 10 and current leaderboard here.
Cameron Newbold
A young man accused of dangerous driving causing the death of a man and injuring an infant in a horror collision in Pallinup earlier this month has faced court for the first time.
Hannah Whitehead
A McKail father accused of stabbing his partner in the cheek with scissors and throttling her as she drove a car containing two of their young children has been refused bail.
Melissa Sheil
The family of Italian woman Ludovica Piscicelli, who was killed in a car crash on her way to work in Bornholm, say the victims of road tragedies deserve to be remembered.
Jacki Elezovich
It was a big night for the Great Southern colts who contributed to Claremont’s 72-point walloping of Subiaco at Retravision Stadium on Saturday.
Claire Middleton
Sounness Park was coloured pink last Saturday, as Mt Barker players took to the field against North Albany donning pink jerseys and socks to raise awareness of the affects of breast cancer in the community.
Just eight premiership points separate four teams on the Upper Great Southern Football League ladder as the race for a finals berth heats up.
Albany Caledonian extended their buffer at the top of the Great Southern Soccer Association senior men’s ladder with a 4-3 win over their nearest challengers on July 19.
The Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre’s Long Live You program, which is aimed at the over-50s, has attracted around 650 members according to health and fitness supervisor Jess Prideaux.
The young woman killed in a horrific crash in Bornholm on her way to work at a dairy farm is being remembered as a vivacious and adventurous soul who had found her ‘piece of paradise’ in Denmark.
It was when she was waist high in a peat bog that Elizabeth Edmonds had an epiphany and realised what she wanted to do for a living.
A red-hot first half from Claremont helped secure a dominant WAFL colts victory over Subiaco as draft fancies Cody Curtin and Charlie Banfield put on a show at Albany’s Retravision Stadium on Saturday night.
The Great Southern Regional Championships attracted 29 teams to the Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre for the annual tournament from July 18-20.
A Spencer Park man will fight accusations he violently attacked his partner several times, including beating her with a metal torch, and punching her in the face while she held their toddler.
The Albany Chamber of Commerce and Industry hosted their monthly sundowner at the Premier Hotel on July 17, with members and guests heading to York Street for the July social event.
A coronial inquest has revealed the likely fate of a Narrogin man who went missing without a trace more than a quarter of a century ago.
Boxwood Hill edged closer to securing a finals berth in the Ongerup Football Association after knocking off Gnowangerup by 15 points in Boxwood on Saturday.
From art classes to inspiring maritime exploration talks, here’s your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern.
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Aboriginal excellence in the Great Southern will be celebrated in style on Saturday as the Southern Aboriginal Corporation hosts its 2025 NAIDOC ball and awards ceremony.
Level crossing safety has been thrust into the spotlight again after a mother of three was killed by a grain train at a rail crossing near Albany.
Cally Dupe and Dylan Caporn
The Albany RSL will honour veterans and fallen servicemen and women at the annual Korean War remembrance service at St John’s Church on York Street on Sunday.
Michael Tugwell
This financial year the City of Albany will deliver its largest-ever capital works program, following the council’s approval of the 2025-2026 budget on Tuesday night.
A McKail man who was caught by police driving with a beer bottle on his car roof and with a blood alcohol reading more than seven times the legal limit has been fined and had his licence disqualified.
Two local teenagers have received grants from Variety, the children’s charity to help them pursue their sporting and dancing dreams.
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