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 […]

RECENTLY elected Victorian upper house member Jacinta Ermacora visited Portland on Monday, to celebrate the significant cut in fares with local bus users. Since the start of the month, the most a full fare passenger can spend to travel anywhere in the state in a day is $9.20, or $4.60 for a concession, and less […]

PORTLAND’S under-18 Western Victoria Female Football League team will compete in their second game of the season when they take on the newly formed Cavendish side on Sunday.

ALCOA says that it has restored the stability of the production process at the Portland Aluminium smelter – and for the first time has outlined the cost of doing so. But there is no timeline yet on a restart. The revelations came yesterday at the release of the multinational corporation’s earnings for the first three […]

THE Portland Croquet Club’s representative teams have come leaps and bounds in the past few years with their rise showcased last week when they claimed the South Western Croquet Association’s golf croquet pennant championship.

THERE are friendships, there are lifelong friendships, then there’s the story of Warwick McEachern and Jack Kerr. From the Great Depression through a world war, to their working lives in the region and through long retirements, they’ve been there for each other right through. To give it some context, the pair met while attending Drik […]

THE Greater South West Junior Football League season got underway on Saturday, with eight games taking the field across three age brackets.

THE South West District Netball League finished round one with solid wins across the board from last year’s grand finalists Dartmoor and Tyrendarra.