DESPITE the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) recently calling for 10 industry recommendations for all residential sales, a local real estate agent said the ideas were unlikely to benefit vendors and buyers in the south-west.

AFTER a COVID-19 outbreak put Penshurst’s Australia Day events on hold earlier this year, the announcement that Sue Jellie had been announced Penshurst Citizen of the Year was also delayed.

CHATEAU Kolor custodians, Gregor and Mary-Louise McDonald, will welcome the public to their grand estate next weekend, as they host the property’s inaugural Easter Market.

IAN Hamley is excited about the 2022 Good Friday Appeal coming up next week. The veteran firefighter of 22 years says it’s the first time in two years volunteers have been able to get out and collect for the Royal Children’s Hospital Appeal because of the pandemic and the lockdown, and said they are all […]

SOUTH-WEST Coast MP, Roma Britnell has once again been kicked out of the Victorian parliament, this time after questioning the health minister on Wednesday this week, about the roadside birth between Portland and Warrnambool, the day before (Tuesday).

DETECTIVES from the Hamilton Crime Investigation unit assisted with executing eight search warrants in Warrnambool on Thursday morning, as part of an investigation into methylamphetamine trafficking across south-west Victoria.

THE sequel was indeed just as good as the original (with apologies for the football analogy in an arts story) when the second annual TRAILS South West Sculpture Exhibition was officially lunched on Sunday. A good crowd attended the unique launch, which saw them gather at Julia Street Creative Space and then stroll 1.2km around […]

TWO State Government members of parliament have raised the ire of country MPs and rural people with their erroneous claims this week regarding the conditions of country roads.

A FORMER local boxer has died in a horrific truck crash at Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, on Tuesday morning, after his truck ran off the road.

AS dairy farmers Jessa and Ben Laws are pretty used to what life throws at them – but when their worst fears came true on Tuesday morning the Gorae couple were left thanking their lucky stars. Ms Laws gave birth to the couple’s daughter Astrid in the car park of a Port Fairy church, as […]