MOST Glenelg Shire ratepayers are set for a larger rate increase than normal in the new financial year, due to a major change in the way rates are calculated.

PORTLAND and district groups have 100,000 reasons to be grateful for the Uniting Church op shop. Since beginning operation in October 2020, the op shop has donated that amount to various groups – despite also battling the coronavirus pandemic and various other issues. Church secretary Lydia Rogers said that included $60,750 in COVID-hit 2021 and […]

LOCALS will be taken on a thrilling voyage through the alphabet next week when ‘The Alphabet of Awesome Science’ performance comes to Hamilton Performing Arts Centre.

AS part of the replanting of Woorndoo’s Avenue of Honour, Council is seeking the stories of service men and women from the community.

PROUD Hamilton grandparents, Brian and Gillian Jenkins, were thrilled to learn recently their ten-year-old grandson, who lives in London, was selected to read a prayer in front of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at an Anzac Day memorial service at Westminster Abbey last week.

IT’S not often the head of one of the nation’s largest sporting clubs drops by Heywood for an afternoon’s footy, but Collingwood Football Club president Jeff Browne literally went the extra mile to do so on Saturday. The main reason was the Magpies partnering with Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation in the Deadly Choices program – the […]

THE decision to award the contract for operating Hamilton’s cinema by Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) was recently deferred due to the unknown factor of the art gallery expansion.

LOCAL leaders and representatives have demanded that tomorrow night's State Government’s Budget deliver a fair share for regional Victoria.

RENEWABLE energy company Pacific Hydro has announced the 2022 Great South West Sustainable Communities Fund ware open as of Sunday. The fund gives local community groups an opportunity to share up to $186,000 in benefits from the Portland Wind Energy Project and Yambuk and Codrington Wind Farms. South Portland Cricket Club was one of the […]

THE Western District Health Service (WDHS) MRI for U&I Appeal has surpassed the $1 million milestone after Coleraine Community Bank generously donated $50,000 to the project.