Lake Grace-Pingrup bounced back from their upset six-point loss to Jerramungup last week, with a dominant display against Boxwood Hill in round three of the Ongerup Football Association on Saturday.
Jacki Elezovich
Seven false killer whales remain stranded on Tuesday morning at House Beach, about 12km east of Bremer Bay, with four of the animals dying overnight.
Jacki Elezovich and Eliza Kavanagh
Authorities fear the whale stranding will attract sharks to the shoreline.
Eliza Kavanagh
Keep the Sheep campaigners are regrouping after Labor won the Federal Election, dashing their hopes a Coalition Government would be able to reverse Anthony Albanese’s plan to ban the live sheep export trade.
Cally Dupe
Rick Wilson thanked the people of O’Connor as vote counting continued on Monday morning with the Liberal incumbent in good stead to retain his seat for a fifth term.
O’Connor Labor candidate Darren Moir has clarified his position on the live sheep export ban on Saturday, telling the Advertiser he did not support the ban.
Georgia Campion
The 31-year-old told police when she was arrested two days after the crimes that she ‘was looking for someone to fight’.
Hannah Whitehead
Liberal incumbent Rick Wilson looks set to secure a fifth term in O’Connor with the projected two-party preferred vote putting him ahead of the competition by 27.78 percentage points.
Labor’s candidate for O’Connor Darren Moir has explained his silence in the week leading up to the election, telling the Advertiser on Saturday he was following the direction of his media team.
Voters in the heartland of WA’s sheep industry have said they are “the forgotten people” in politics and are afraid the 2025 Federal election outcome could kill regional towns.
West Coast produced a May miracle, upsetting the previously unbeaten South Fremantle by 16 points in one of the shocks of the season.
Mitchell Woodcock
Voters from around Albany and Mt Barker flocked to their nearest voting booths on Saturday, braving intermittent rain and winds, to cast their ballot in the 2025 Federal election.
A man punched a woman multiple times and threw a piece of wood through her car window while she was inside.
Taste Great Southern returns to the region this week, and smaller regional towns are getting their chance to shine on the festival program with new Town Takeovers.
Jerramungup’s flag ambitions in the Ongerup Football Association receive a big boost, WAFL State player joins an already stacked Boddington team in their title defence and a special moment for the Ballards.
Cameron Newbold
Shearing trainers will become the students when a new workshop designed to ensure shearing consistency across the country comes to Narrogin.
Melissa Pedelty
Keen shutterbugs have their chance to grab a piece of history in Albany’s bicentennial year with the return of a prestigious competition.
Claire Middleton
WA’s sheep industry is bracing for the result of the Federal election, with Labor ahead in the polls and Anthony Albanese’s devastating plan to ban live sheep exports likely to become reality.
Melissa Pedelty and Cally Dupe
Last season’s wooden spooners Katanning Wanderers have gone close to upsetting Brookton-Pingelly in the opening round of the new Upper Great Southern Football League season.
Katanning’s Christmas Islanders Community Club Association hosted its first Suasana Keharmonia Di Hari Raya event, celebrating the end of Ramadan with a community feast and dancing at the town’s Pioneer Hall.
Labor’s candidate for O’Connor has gone to ground the week of the election, deferring questions about live export to a spokeswoman who said he was “working on his farm” and wouldn’t be available for comment.
In the final installment of our series on the Federal election candidates for O’Connor, the Albany Advertiser sits down for a chat with Australian Christians candidate Deonne Kingsford.
Wagin’s iconic war memorial celebrated its century anniversary with a dawn service the Wagin RSL president believes to be its best attended yet.
Melissa Sheil
Kojonup farmer June Williams has written a book called You Have 6 Months about her journey with stage 4 lung cancer
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