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.

THE 2023 Spring season for the Portland Basketball Association’s top-level competition got underway on Wednesday evening, with five games of action across the men’s and women’s division.

CANBERRA could be the next stop for a group of locals against the proposed offshore wind farm zone planned for the waters off Portland and Discovery Bays. Federal Member for Wannon Dan Tehan will take the concerns of the more than 100 people who attended a meeting at the Portland Yacht Club on Wednesday afternoon […]

FAWTHROP Lagoon will be getting some attention from volunteers this coming Sunday, for National Tree Planting Day. Local group South West Environmental Education (SWEE) last weekend emerged from an early winter hibernation, to get back into the swing of their revegetation work around the lagoon. Along with replacements for the banksia trees that were removed […]

TWO Portland junior motocross riders have put together exceptional performances at the elite level of the sport over the past couple of months, with one competitor now having a state title to his name.

PORTLAND Football Netball Club’s search for a new senior football coach is over, with former assistant co-coach Lochie Huppatz set to return to the club after spending 2023 interstate.

SOME students spend their school holidays relaing, but one Portland Secondary College (PSC) student spent her holidays at the 43rd Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS). Year 11 student Gina Shemeld was one of just 150 secondary students from around the world who were invited to attend the science program founded by science Professor […]