A former AFL and WAFL star back in red and white for new GSFL season, a big recruit for the Narrogin Hawks and a dual WAFL premiership gun switches country teams. Here is our first Around The Leagues for 2025.
Cameron Newbold
Renowned cyclist and Indian Pacific Wheel Race 2022 winner Colin Ottaway set a record time on Gnowangerup’s new 440km gravel loop.
Hannah Whitehead
A 30-year-old man has died after his vehicle and another car collided on Albany Highway near Narrikup on Thursday morning.
Melissa Sheil and Eliza Kavanagh
A newly resurfaced Quartermaine Oval will be the venue for the 2025 Upper Great Southern Football League grand final, as excitement builds ahead of the new season starting on Saturday.
An Albany rescue charity that has taken in 150 cats since its launch in December says the Great Southern is in desperate need of cat pounds in the face of a booming feral cat population
Claire Middleton
In the fifth of our series on the Federal election candidates for O’Connor, the Albany Advertiser sits down for a chat with the Legalise Cannabis candidate on health, the economy, and his passion for cannabis.
Melissa Sheil
Department of Fire and Emergency Services chief Wayne Green has called on weekend warriors to be better prepared for the great outdoors after five incidents in two days stretched rescue services to the limit.
Early voters have flocked to Albany’s York Street polling booths to cast their vote in the 2025 Federal election with a quick street poll revealing a preference for Labor.
Georgia Campion and Claire Middleton
BlazeAid volunteers have rebuilt kilometres of fencing ravaged by the January bushfire for Wagin and West Arthur farmers, providing crucial support and mental health aid.
New Narrogin Hawks coach Duncan Synnot believes the club has recruited plenty of strong talent in the bid to content for this year’s Upper Great Southern Football League premiership.
Anzac Day events to remember all those who served Australia and New Zealand will take place across Katanning and the upper Great Southern on Friday.
In the fourth of our series on the Federal election candidates for O’Connor, the Albany Advertiser sits down with the Labor contender to talk about onshore processing, marriage equality, and nuclear power.
The 78-year-old man was treated by St John WA at the scene.
According to the Australian War Memorial, almost a million Australians served in WWII. But figures show there there were only about 1300 Australian WWII veterans remaining at December last year.
Malcolm Quekett
The Nationals first acts in Government will be to resurrect the live sheep export trade and restore Australia’s international agricultural standing, David Littleproud will vow in an Easter campaign stop in WA.
Dylan Caporn
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.
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.
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.
Premier Roger Cook said domestic violence offenders should be “put behind bars” in regional areas where electronic monitoring devices cannot be used
Sofia Fimognari and Dylan Caporn
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.
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
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