PORTLAND will make the trip to Mortlake tomorrow to face off against a revamped Terang-Mortlake Bloods outfit in their first Hampden Football League Super Saturday fixture of the season.

PORTLAND could be the home of a facility worth hundreds of millions of dollars, producing a low carbon shipping fuel alternative for the Port of Melbourne. Melbourne-based company HAMR Energy this week made its plans for the Portland plant public, signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Port of Melbourne and some of the world’s […]

PORTLAND’S Open netball side is making it work for the next few rounds after suffering some injuries throughout their ranks heading into round four of the Hampden Netball League.

THE Something for Everyone cabaret at the South Portland Hall on Saturday night certainly lived up to its name. A special feature hosted by the South Portland Hall Committee, it was in place of the traditional Saturday night dances at the venue. It featured music, as always, by the Tarragal Band. Band member Helena Lucas […]

TOMORROW’S contests across the South West District Netball League will see some of the teams sitting out of the top four pushing for ladder points.

MAY 4, 2023, marks an important milestone for an essential Portland community service: 40 years of continuous support and education to local breastfeeding mothers and their families through the Nursing Mothers Association of Australia (NMAA). Now known as the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA), the support group was initially called the Nursing Mothers Association because the […]

PORTLAND’S under-18 youth girls’ team had their first win of the season on Sunday with an emphatic victory against Hamilton Kangaroos in round four of the Western Victoria Female Football League.

HEATHMERE earned their first win of the 2023 South West District Football League season, coming away with a 15.10 (100) to 7.7 (49) win over Westerns at Hanlon Park on Saturday.

AT just nine years old, Portlander Ruby Smith has decided to lop off her golden locks for the second time, to be donated and made into a wig for someone in need. On Friday, May 12, Ruby will be giving up around 36cm of her hair, in front of her fellow students at St John’s […]

THE Heywood Community Garden project is slowly coming together with the help of extra hands. Last Monday, a meeting was held at Heywood and District Secondary College (HDSC) to discuss who would take a role on the Community Gardens committee. Committee members were to be elected with coordinator, secretary, treasurer and public officer. The process […]