A driver and a passenger have died in a tragic start to the Easter long weekend in WA, killed when a car towing a caravan collided with a truck in the Great Southern.
Cameron Newbold
Porongurup resident Allan Faulkner has taken road safety into his own hands, painstakingly updating a homemade road fatality sign each week in hopes the high number will remind drivers to take precautions.
Melissa Sheil
She had been driving for hours when she rolled her car on South Coast Highway.
Eliza Kavanagh
A Denmark man accused of rape has been bailed despite an attempt by the corrections office to put him in custody over fears for the complainant’s safety if his electronic monitor stopped working.
Georgia Campion
Emergency services are responding to a serious crash on South Coast Highway in Jerramungup, about 2 hours east of Albany.
Country Football WA competitions manager Brent Sheridan says moving the women’s Country Championships to Bunbury’s Hands Oval will be a boon for women’s footballers in the State’s regions.
Josh Kempton
Pianist Adam Cook has adored Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue ever since he was a teenager at Great Southern Grammar, where he was the only ATAR student doing music.
Claire Middleton
Rabobank brought the next generation of WA farmers together at the bank’s Young Farmers Forum held in Busselton late last month for a day of learning and networking.
Cally Dupe
Bridgetown were the big winners of the second round of the Lower South West Football League on Saturday, smashing Deanmill by 70 points on their own turf.
WA’s chief magistrate has been forced to give his assurance that dangerous domestic violence thugs will not be released onto the street if they cannot be electronically monitored.
Dylan Caporn
A group of Katanning men have come home winners, culling more than 20 foxes at this year’s Red Card fox shoot.
Jacki Elezovich
In the third of our series on the Federal election candidates for O’Connor, the Albany Advertiser sits down with the Nationals candidate.
Gnowangerup powered to a dominant first-up victory in the 2025 Ongerup Football Association, thumping Boxwood Hill by 82 points on Saturday.
Two very different scenarios are playing out for grain growers taking a “cautious” approach to seeding crops across WA, with bone-dry conditions at farms near Geraldton and waterlogging in the Great Southern.
A Katanning man resisted arrest after police confused a TV remote for a weapon.
The Williams Gateway Expo sheep show presented some of WA’s best wool and meat sheep breeds, which were put under the scrutiny of judges for top awards.
Bob Garnant
The widow of a stalwart WA farmer who took his life amid a battle with prostate cancer is calling on politicians to ‘stand up’ and pay more attention to the disease killing Australian men.
Jake Dietsch
Bunbury will host the 2025 edition of football’s women’s Country Championships.
Mt Barker claimed back-to-back titles in the Great Southern Football League Women’s competition with a dominant 37-point win over Denmark Walpole in Friday night’s grand final at Collingwood Park.
Mt Barker took home back-to-back flags in Friday night’s Great Southern Football League Women’s grand final, and the Bulls’ key midfielder Zoe Keley was awarded best on ground for her work throughout the game.
The Coalition has promised to create a perpetual fund for regional infrastructure and services in what O’Connor incumbent Rick Wilson has labelled a “historic moment” for rural Australians.
In the second of our series on the Federal election candidates for O’Connor, the Albany Advertiser sits down with the candidate for One Nation, Gemma Johnston.
The Williams Gateway Expo brought entertainment for all ages this year as the town’s many volunteers organised a great day out for the surrounding communities to enjoy and celebrate.
Farmers protested outside Anthony Albanese’s hotel in downtown Perth just hours before Labor officially kicked off its re-election campaign in the Western Australian capital.
Staff Reporter and Cally Dupe
