ROUND 10 of the South West District Football League’s 2023 season was played on Saturday, with two top flight contenders taking the chance to stamp their authority on the season to this point.

THE likely outcome for someone having a stroke in the Portland area will soon improve dramatically, when a new fast response service will be introduced into the district. Currently when paramedics are called out to a suspected stroke, they typically bypass Portland District Health (PDH) entirely for either Warrnambool or Hamilton, which both have the […]

AGOSTINA Hawkins, Glenelg Shire Council’s collections manager, has a big job ahead of her. She and her team are around six months into the mammoth task of sorting through the entire 10,000 piece cultural collection at council – logging every item, describing it, and adding it to a new collection database system. Ms Hawkins is […]

PORTLAND had some moments of impressive court play during their Open Hampden Netball League clash against Koroit on Saturday, it was small stints of a drop in focus that led to their 58-29 loss.

FORMER Portland footballer Jess Rentsch is playing the best footy of her career after coming back from a broken leg she suffered last season, and as a result the 17-year-old was presented with her Australian Academy jumper on Sunday before her first game representing the AFLW Academy.

THE rising cost of living is being felt severely in the district, with some people losing stable housing and having to forgo meals to stretch their budget. Support workers who see the hardest hit every day say they are regularly hearing stories of people only eating one or two meals a day, being evicted from […]

LOCALS had the opportunity last week to learn what food and fibre career path they should walk down. Some community members of Heywood and district came together last Wednesday for a Food and Fibre Careers Tasting Trail, run by Food and Fibre Great South Coast. The event was previously in Warrnambool and Hamilton introducing a […]

THE Casterton Kelpie Association’s art show this year was even more sensational than usual when three members of the same family took out top awards.
PORTLAND has gone from strength to strength over the past few weeks of action in the South West Victorian Football Association’s division one competition, culminating in a 4-0 win on Sunday over Hamilton at Pedrina Park.

IT might have started 10 years ago, and seen plenty of changes since, but the Portland Community Garden has big plans for the future. The garden recently took possession of a new front end loader, bought with help from the donation the organisation received following the winding up of Portland WorkSkills late last year. Garden […]

PORTLAND netballer Jasper Smith celebrated her 100th match lining up for the Tigers on the weekend, with her division two side getting the win over Warrnambool 36-31.