After five years the official reopening of Katanning’s KAARL Yarning Place and Koreng Art and Culture Centre drew a large assembly including two special guest State ministers.
Hannah Whitehead
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
Upper Great Southern coach Jye Depane said a grand final defeat will drive his side to come back hungrier in the Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships.
Cameron Newbold
The Shire of Gnowangerup is spending $400,000 a year to ensure the town has a local GP, a sum which represents 8 per cent of its rateable income, according to shire president Kate O’Keeffe.
Claire Middleton
Katanning Netball Association performed well in the 2025 Great Southern Regional Championships in Albany at the weekend, with one of its teams finishing runners-up and the other also reaching the finals.
Tina Briscoe
Travelling from Newdegate, a budding young leader caught the attention of policymakers when his committee’s regional recovery bill passed unanimously at the 2025 Y WA Youth Parliament.
The environmental group opposing the proposed Katanning gold mine is preparing it submission as public comments open.
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.
‘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
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
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.
A Perth grandmother who has spent the past week fighting for her life in hospital after a multi-vehicle crash has regained consciousness, taken her first independent breath and sworn she will never drive again.
Caitlin Vinci
Ongerup Football Association avoided relegation with a superb 10-minute period that helped defeat North Pilbara on Saturday in the Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships.
A Hopetoun family has written their name in history books after acquiring one of WA’s most lucrative farms for a whopping total of more than $50 million — one of WA’s largest farm sales this year.
Melissa Pedelty
A record-breaking 106 teams from across WA descended on the Bendat Basketball Centre this week for the 2025 NAIDOC Basketball Carnival.
Sophie Gannon
The closure and potential sale of the Woodanilling Tavern has divided the small country town in the Great Southern with the Shire of Woodanilling stuck in the middle of a change-of-use row.
The man who helped revolutionise WA’s agriculture industry, establish several environmental groups and serve his local government for four decades was deservedly recognised with a King’s Birthday Honour.
The allocation of more than $3.3 million in bushfire mitigation funding to high-risk local governments has been met with “gratitude and relief” by one of its first-time Great Southern recipients.
A man in his 40s had to be freed by Lake Grace volunteer firefighters and flown to a Perth hospital after an incident with a loader caused a serious foot injury on Tuesday night near Lake Grace.
Lower South West went undefeated through their Country Championships division three campaign last week, which they finished with a thrilling two-point victory over Mortlock in Sunday’s grand final.
Josh Kempton
Kojonup’s Libby Hardingham has been selected to represent WA in the race to be Australia’s best young merino fleece judge in September.
A Kojonup farmer and stock driver has been left “gobsmacked” after the State Administrative Tribunal upheld an order by the Police Commissioner to revoke his firearms licence following an assault conviction.
Georgia Campion
Grains Australia is investigating potential new export markets for the country’s superior faba bean, with China one such opportunity following a recent conference held in Qingdao.
CSBP Fertilisers is urging WA growers to start plant sampling this cropping season to better support optimal growth and maximise returns.
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