State country duties for Great Southern and Ongerup stars, Eagles champion and proud Great Southern boy Jeremy McGovern in the stands at country champs, and State appearance in Queensland colours for Hitchcock.
Cameron Newbold and Harry Grigson
Gnowangerup player-coach and former Geelong-listed player Timm House has been selected to represent the 2024 New Holland Country Men’s WA State Side to take on South Australia this weekend.
Harry Grigson
The influence of West Coast Eagles premiership player Chris Masten was not enough for Brookton-Pingelly to beat Kukerin-Dumbleyung in round 10 of the Upper Great Southern Football League season on Sunday.
Hannah Whitehead
Wagin locals have been sewing and knitting up a storm to keep cancer patients around Australia warm.
The Narrogin and Districts Netball Association 2024 junior division three and four was an all-Flames affair as the Flares and Falcons reigned supreme in grand finals on Saturday.
Julie-Anne Grout
Darkan’s first-ever charity ball raised $19,000 and counting as guests from across the state descended on the small Wheatbelt town, swapping their farm gear for black-tie to enjoy a night of music and dancing.
Pingelly had a blast from the past on Sunday as players from the 1979 and 1984 grand finals reunited to celebrate the history of their local football club.
Wickepin will be the centre of ‘seeds of change’ as farming women descend on the small Wheatbelt town to uplift, support and educate each other.
WA farmers want the Cook Government to lobby their Canberra counterparts to triple the financial support for the live sheep export industry amid an ongoing fight to save the trade
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Highbury siblings have been selected as two of the 10 Australian representatives in this year’s International Pony Club Tetrathlon for their incredible running, swimming, shooting and equestrian athleticism.
A major IT outage is affecting businesses, media outlets, Government agencies and other organisations across Australia and globally.
Upper Great Southern Football League have finished the 2024 Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships with just one win.
Cameron Newbold
A last-gasp goal was all that separated the Upper Great Southern Hockey Association Presidents XI and WA Country in Saturday night’s exhibition game in Narrogin.
In a special edition of Bush and ‘Burbs, we have taken a look at the fairytale story in every country league across Western Australia and who you should get behind to win premierships this season.
Jackson Barrett
Narrogin celebrated Indigenous culture for this year’s NAIDOC Week with activities, games, art, and education for all ages.
Ongerup narrowly avoided the dreaded double relegation after a disappointing Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Championships division two campaign in Perth at the weekend.
Narrogin’s annual Junior Hockey Carnival had a YMCC grand final avalanche alongside Upper and Lower Great Southern successes as players from across the State left it all out on the field.
The Wheatbelt will receive $43,000 as part of the State Government’s $250,000 attraction and retention packages for regional childcare workers program announced on July 8.
Oliver Lane and Eliza Kavanagh
A Katanning father of eight with 189 prior convictions has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for twice wielding a machete in front of his ex-partner.
Georgia Campion
The Wheatbelt’s finest bogans gathered at William’s Town Hall on Friday night with fresh mullets and dry-cleaned flannels to enjoy the Aussie-fied retelling of Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet.
A Wagin man who spent six months in prison for evading arrest and lying to police has been released from prison on an intensive supervision order.
Dozens of passionate regional footballers, past and present put their loyalties aside on Thursday evening for the 2024 Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships launch night.
A Newdegate youth determined to “voice the issues that matter most” for regional WA was one of the youngest to represent his electorate in the 2024 Youth Parliament.
The division one country championships title is back in the South West after the region’s team reclaimed the honour with an 11-point championships final win over Avon at Sullivan Logistics Stadium.
Josh Kempton