WHEN cousins Cruz and Porsha Nelson and Ivy Meek started school for the first time on Wednesday, the five-year-olds should have felt a little more at home than most Preps. The trio are after all among the fifth generation of their family to attend Portland North Primary School, a tradition that began in the late […]

IF YOU have dad’s unregistered old shotgun out in the back shed gathering dust or a relic handgun that you picked up at a market – that still works – now is the time to hand them into police, without any consequences.

PENSHURST Angus breeder Roland Cameron helped raise awareness of prostate cancer with the donation of two angus heifers sold at the Warrnambool South-West Victorian Livestock Exchange Annual Premier Weaner Sale earlier this month.

ABOUT 35 locals marched on Portland police station on Monday morning, demanding coronavirus vaccines be seized and vaccination centres shut down.

APPLICATIONS to the Enabling Tourism Fund are encouraged from private sector businesses, incorporated associations, not-for-profit organisations, Traditional Owner Corporations and Aboriginal-owned businesses to help plan and develop new attractions and encourage more visitors.

NOT even storms could dampen the spirit of pool goers last week, with the Macarthur Pool attracting a large crowd for their annual Australia Day fundraiser.

HAMILTON Business Park land parcels are now ready for purchase with prospective investors encouraged to secure their investment in a thriving Greater Hamilton region.

LAUREN Brown of Hamilton has welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world, Peyton Quinn Brown, on Australia Day with the extra special coincidence of being born at 3:36am and weighing exactly 3.36 kilograms.

After the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) provisionally approved the new Novavax vaccine, the Massachusetts based company has the green light from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) to begin distributing the vaccine late last week.

IT was a humid afternoon at the Fenwick’s Woodhouse property last Thursday until a menacing weather system made its way toward the farm.