THE familiar – and comforting to those stuck at sea – yellow colour of Coast Guard Portland’s vessel Helen Handbury is about to become but a memory. It will go up on to the Portland slipway in the next couple of weeks to undergo a major refurbishment, that demonstrates the wider local benefits of using […]

THE Portland Panthers Soccer Club will take a daring first step into the wilds of Victorian soccer this weekend, when they host Hamilton Raiders and Corangamite Lions in their first game in the South West Victoria Football Association. While the junior grades played games last season in the competition, the seniors did not, and the […]

FOR the first time, the Australian Esports League (AEL) will host a free esports event in Hamilton on May 29 and 30 - the Greater Hamilton Esports Cup.

SIX weeks on from the start of the region’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, almost one-eighth of all Southern Grampians residents have received their first dose from Western District Health Service (WDHS).

WESTERN Victoria MP, Bev McArthur has called on the environment minister, Lily D’Ambrosio to ensure the proposal to reintroduce dingoes into the Grampians was scrapped when the Greater Gariwerd Landscape Management Plan is ticked off later this year.

WESTERN District Health Service’s (WDHS) ‘green’ menu has been recognised by the State Government for leading the way in promoting healthier food and drink options.

TYRENDARRA got its South West District Football Netball League A grade season off to a positive, if bumpy, start on Saturday, holding off a determined Heywood for a five-goal victory.

PORTLAND has snatched its first win of the 2021 Hampden Netball League open season, defeating Hamilton Kangaroos 47-39 at Flinders Park on Sunday afternoon.

AS all local footballers continue to adjust to games after more than 18 months off the field, one Hamilton Kangaroos player has had the 2021 in mind longer than most.

PENSHURST is on the MDFL winners list for the first time in 2021, defeating Wickliffe-Lake Bolac by 28 points at Lake Bolac on Saturday.