A GAP in childcare services is making life precarious for parents of pre-schoolers, resulting in the region’s State and Federal representatives calling for government help.

DARTMOOR has demonstrated they are once again top contenders for the flag in the South West District Netball League A grade competition, taking care of Coleraine in trying conditions on Saturday, 40-31.

Community health organisations in the region came together last week in Portland, to strengthen the connection between indigenous communities in the South West. Indigenous Elders, community members converged for the first ‘meeting of the mobs’ event, in a combined effort from local organisations Dhauwurd-Wurrung Elderly & Community Health Service (DWECHS) and Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation (which […]

PORTLAND’S Zavier Payne has only been umpiring for a couple of years but that isn’t stopping the young boundary umpire from reaching new heights after he was selected to officiate the under-17 interleague game last weekend between the Hampden FNL and Ballarat FNL.

FOR Heywood Rural Health’s (HRH) annual production, staff put together a glamorous pageant.   Every year the team orchestrates something theatrical and entertaining to amuse residents and families at the hospital. This year it was the Miss Heywood pageant. Thirteen staff members dressed up as individual characters taking on contrasting personalities and features. HRH activities […]

IT has been a bit of an uphill battle for the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre Inc (SRHC), but like the train who thought he could, the SRHC got there in the end. The Portland tourist train is coming.   For president of the SRHC John Crofts and his like-minded train enthusiast friends, this is a […]

THE Portland Kyokushin Karate Club will host the 10th iteration of the Portland Open Border Challenge at the Portland Secondary College gym tomorrow, in what is expected to be an exciting day of action.

LOCAL and Indigenous-owned Budj Bim Tourism marked its first anniversary last week, having attracted thousands of visitors to the area in that time. Budj Bim Cultural Landscape Tourism has fast become one of the district’s biggest tourism ventures since opening the impressive Tae Rak Aquaculture Centre and other infrastructure in the UNSECO listed world heritage […]

PORTLAND Football Netball Club has unveiled its new Indigenous design football jumpers and netball dresses ahead of Hampden’s Indigenous round which kicks off tomorrow as a part of NAIDOC week.

IT might be a cliché, but a project that took place out Cape Nelson way on Friday certainly did merit the phrase. “This is a win-win for both of us.” So said Friends of Cape Nelson Landcare Coastcare president Lynn Murrell when several Rotary Club of Portland members came out to the Picnic Hill reserve […]