Bundarra Primary School has established a ninja course. After laying down a new bike track with fundings received for sports facilities, the primary school decided to use leftover funds to put in build a ninja course in the playground. The course includes a large solar powered stopwatch at the start so students can time how […]

TYRENDARRA’S Western Victoria Female Football League season came to a close on Sunday when they went down to Hamilton Kangaroos in the elimination final in Cavendish.

IT might still be some way off the records of five years ago, but there are positive signs for the Port of Portland with an improvement in the volume going through. Chief executive Greg Burgoyne said 6.081 million tonnes went through the port in the 2022-23 financial year, about 400,000 tonnes more than in 2021-22. […]

PORTLAND’S Sarah Pedrazzi was not expecting to be fighting bushfires in the middle of July, least of all on the other side of the world. But that’s exactly what the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) Forest Fire Operations Officer found herself doing over the last five weeks, after she and a crew […]

THE top five sides are set in stone for the 2023 South West District Football League season, with the bottom three sides all now mathematically eliminated from finals contention.

POLICE are appealing for information to help find a man wanted relating to a 1997 murder, who disappeared near Portland a month ago and has since been spotted travelling across the state. Keith Lees, who had lived in Portland for around three years, was the partner of 25 year-old Victorian woman Meaghan Louise Rose when […]

WHILE local sportspeople have been in the midst of their 2023 winter seasons, and the upcoming 2023-24 summer of cricket has been a distant thought, one Portland product has been continuing to play the great game over in the UK.

NARRAWONG will have a new home for its post office – and it will stay in the settlement – after a contentious planning application was passed by Glenelg Shire councillors on Tuesday night. It was one of two applications relating to land in Narrawong that were given the green light on the night – the […]

IT’D be fair to say Ana Paula Campos de Moura knows more about Portland than most Australians, despite having lived her entire life in Brazil. She’s also probably got more out of her Rotary Youth Exchange trip here than most of the many thousands of people from around the world who have taken part in […]

FIVE of Portland’s brightest young talents in football are gearing up to take on the best the state has to offer in September, as they’ve been selected to the Greater Western Victoria Rebels’ under-15 V-Line Cup squads.