THE Greater South West Junior Football League returned to action for round two over the weekend, with five games played across the under-17 and under-14 age brackets.

PORTLAND’S under-18 youth girls team had a strong tussle in their second match for the Western Victoria Female Football League season against Cavendish, going down by just 14 points on Sunday.

IN the middle of her treatment for aggressive stage three cancer, Portland woman Destiny Anderson-Harvey has felt the community get behind her fight. On Saturday, around 100 people travelled on motorcycles and in classic cars from Hamilton to Portland, as part of the ‘Ride for Destiny’ fundraiser rally. Around $11,000 was raised through registrations, donations, […]

THE number of Indigenous owned assets and commercial enterprises in Gunditjmara Country continues to grow, with the community last week celebrating a permanent home for the Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation’s Budj Bim Rangers program. The rangers had been operating out of the former car dealership on the Henty Highway in Portland as tenants of the building […]

PORTLAND and Hamilton will take to Hanlon Park today for the annual Anzac Day clash, in what senior coach Jarrod Holt said is their “biggest game of the year.”

PORTLAND’S Open netballers are ready to get back on the court for a momentous day of sport today in their Hampden Football Netball League Anzac Day clash against Hamilton.

ELLA Matters has returned from one of her biggest achievements to date, swimming in the Australian Age Championships in the Gold Coast last week.

YOUNG Portland fisherman Lewis Hameka this week received a special (and to some unnerving) memento of his first mako shark – its jaw, complete with rows of razor-sharp teeth. Lewis was 15 at the time when he caught the 125kg shark back in January, taking around two hours to bring it in on 15kg line. […]

PORTLAND gymnast Mia McDowell recently competed in her first Senior Victorian Championships in Geelong after an impressive performance at the trial event.

A PORTLAND woman is working to make the NDIS easier to navigate, after years of drowning in paperwork, and having to explain her own neurodiverse children’s circumstances over and over to specialists. Kristine Godfrey is an engineer at the smelter by day, but has spent the last year and a half creating on an online […]