PORTLAND North Primary School is hosting its 20th annual Mini-Fete on Thursday combined with its fundraising Colour Run. Every year the school holds the fete to subsidise their Grade five and six camp. Senior students have the responsibility of preparing fun activities and hosting the Mini-Fete, which is something they look forward to from prep. […]

IT’S finally here, the 2024 Portland Tri State Games have begun. In beautiful weather a welcome event took place on the Portland foreshore lawns on Sunday evening, where teams participating in the games joined for live music and a meal. Rotary Club of Portland provided dinner and Rotary Club Portland Bay had dessert sorted. Yesterday […]

THE Royal Hotel Portland held a bottomless cocktail party on Melbourne Cup Day, with a focus on raising funds to assist local men with prostate cancer. Guests had two hours to eat and drink their fill, leading up to the official races which started at 3pm. Money was raised from purchased tickets and raffles, and […]

THE final preparations for this year’s instalment of the Portland Runners Club 3 Bays Running Festival will wrap up this evening, as entrants and organisers prepare for this weekend’s event.

Marine life, market stalls, live music and the emotive Call to the Sea featuring hundreds of voices from the community are just some of the reasons to experience the Upwelling Festival tomorrow.

SECONDARY students from Portland and district got a full tour inside the C-27J Spartan, thanks to former Portland resident and now Air Force Corporal and the aircraft’s Loadmaster Jordan Oakley.

PORTLAND is home to a new art gallery located in a former butcher’s shop.

A steady stream of visitors made their way to the Portland Fire Brigade station for the unit’s Open Day on Sunday.

TICKETS are now closed for A Beautiful Mind gala event this Saturday. Portland’s Nea Barclay is behind the event, which is to be held at the Portland Golf Club, and said that plenty of tickets were sold. “Excellent turnout,” she said. “We sold just under 190 tickets.” The event was designed by Mrs Barclay to […]

BAYVIEW College students had a whale of a time participating in the 2024 Tournament of Minds regional and Victorian state finals recently. The set challenges were sent out six weeks before the regional finals, and a team of six Year 7 and 8 students had to invent a device to deal with plastic pollution, and […]