TYRENDARRA booked their spot in the Portland and District Cricket Association’s 2022-23 season grand final with an em-phatic victory over Portland Ti-gers over the weekend, winning the two-day match with 10 wickets in hand at Alexandra Park.

THE return of sprintcar racing to the Southern 500 Speedway was an outstanding success on Sunday night with a huge crowd cheering home local star Brock Hallett to victory.

TWO of Portland’s youngest senior Coasters players are taking their basketball to the next level over winter, with Tyleah Barr and Summer Millard competing in the Big V and NBL1 competitions.

JUST 10 days into March and Summer seems well and truly in the rear view, as wet and windy colder weather rolled into the South West this week. According to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), just over 20mm of rain has been recorded at Portland Airport to Thursday morning, approaching halfway to the monthly average […]

YOUNG Portland footballer Chad Finck has continued his rise through the ranks of country football, being selected to Greater Western Victoria Rebels’ under-16 squad for the upcoming football season.

IT has been about 40 years since cars and other vehicles were offloaded at the Port of Portland, but all that might be about to change thanks to a critical issue at the Port of Melbourne. Both vehicle importers and shipping agents are facing a three-month wait to unload vehicles at the city port, with […]

SEVEN Portland Little Athletics centre athletes are qualified to compete in the Little Athletics Victoria State Track and Field Championships in Melbourne tomorrow and Sunday.

FOR two Portland dog owners, the worst happened on Saturday – in separate incidents their pets were bitten by a snake and when they called the local vet clinic they were told there was no-one on call. The Heywood clinic was similarly unattended, so both owners were told that they needed to drive about an […]

PORTLAND’S Jake and Peter Stevenson will be in action at the 2023 ARB Australian Off Road Racing Championship this weekend, with round one of the series set to take place in Rainbow.

IN May 2023, the Portland Field Naturalists’ Club (PFNC) will be just two years shy of 80. Established in May 1945 out of concern for the future of the region’s forests, the cost of membership was fixed at two shillings. The first president was Hugh Keiller. After some serious discussion among the all-male group, ‘ladies’ […]