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  1. Community MeetingCommentsPremiumState reps face Manjimup community over timber decision

  2. Shire Leaders PickedCommentsPremiumMeet the lower South West Shire presidents

  3. Local Government ElectionCommentsPremiumManjimup’s West ward tops WA in voter turnout

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Stouts ‘n’ SteaksCommentsPremiumManjimup’s Tall Timbers beefs up beer distribution

Manjimup’s very own batch of beers will be lining up next to some of Australia’s biggest breweries at the 2021 WA Beer and Beef Festival in Perth this weekend.

Josh Sunderland

BasketballCommentsPremiumManjimup’s basketball stadium boosted by $60k grant

Manjimup’s basketball stadium has been brought up to the standard of the National Basketball League thanks to some recent major upgrades.

Josh Sunderland

Ride For TelethonCommentsPremiumFather-son duo raise over $34K for Telethon

A WA actor who has raised more than $34,000 for Telethon during his mammoth motorcycle ride across WA with his father stopped in Manjimup last week.

Ben Loughran

Local LeadersCommentsPremiumNew program to develop South West creative leaders

Creative leaders of the South West will have the opportunity to sharpen their skills as a Statewide program visits Manjimup later this year.

Josh Sunderland

Hub HelpsCommentsPremiumManjimup brain hub offers dementia aid

A new initiative coming to Manjimup next month will offer support to people impacted by dementia.

Josh Sunderland

Ride For TelethonCommentsPremiumFather-son duo raise over $34K for Telethon

A WA actor who has raised more than $34,000 for Telethon during his mammoth motorcycle ride across WA with his father stopped in Manjimup last week.

Ben Loughran

WA Heritage AwardsCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumTwo lower South West reps on Heritage awards shortlist

The lower South West has two finalists for the State Government’s 2021 WA Heritage awards after the nominations were announced on Wednesday.

Shire Leaders PickedCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumMeet the lower South West Shire presidents

With the dust now settled on the local government elections, the newly-formed lower South West councils have chosen who will lead them for the next two years.

Free Health ServiceCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumBridgetown schedules free cancer screenings

A mobile mammogram service will be setting up in Bridgetown from the start of November to provide free breast cancer screenings to rural women.

BasketballCommentsPremiumComets crunch Pink Ladies as round two wraps up

Two rounds into the Manjimup Amateur Basketball Association’s 2021-22 season and we’ve already seen some monster wins and nail-biting finishes.

Josh Sunderland

McGowan’s Manjimup VisitCommentsPremiumPremier McGowan cites “near future” Manjimup visit

Mark McGowan plans to visit Manjimup in the “near future” in the wake of his State Government’s controversial decision to close the native logging industry by 2024.

Ben Loughran

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The suburbs where house prices are cheaper than 2014

Figures show median prices are below their 2014 value — when the Perth metropolitan area was at its peak — in a staggering 159 suburbs. SEE THE FULL LIST.

Kim Macdonald

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Beloved Russell Woolf a ‘mate of everyone he met’

Former co-host Nadia Mitsopolous pays tribute to ABC presenter Russell Woolf — an ‘outrageously talented colleague and supremely loyal friend’.

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Perth psychiatrist suspended amid ongoing probe

A Perth psychiatrist who works at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital has been suspended by the medical regulating body.

Briana Fiore

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WATCH THE FOOTAGEVideoIncredible video emerges of prison fugitive on the run

Video has emerged of the moment an escapee made his getaway from Broome Regional Prison as police step up the hunt for Warrick Simon Walkerbear.

Troy de Ruyter & Sam Jones

shocked communityChurch service planned for Cleo’s friends and teachers

A Carnarvon school is preparing to hold a church service for classmates, teachers and families shattered by the disappearance of four-year-old Cleo Smith as they hope for her safe return.

Ailish Delaney

Red-light crashCommentsPremiumMan fined for pregnant woman’s red-light terror

A man who ran a red light on Monday and crashed into a pregnant woman’s car before threatening to shoot police and run over members of the community has been fined for his “pathetic” behaviour

Amber Lilley

Search continuesPolice spend seven hours at Cleo’s home

Forensic officers spent more than seven hours inside the the Smith family’s South Carnarvon home on Tuesday leaving with two evidence bags.

‘Love and support’Ellie Smith ‘overwhelmed’ by GoFundMe generosity

Ellie Smith, the mother of missing four-year-old Cleo Smith, says she’s been ‘overwhelmed’ by the generosity of people who’ve donated to a GoFundMe page set up to help bring her daughter home.

Bail grantedPremiumPremiumFarm worker on sex assault charges

Under his bail conditions, he cannot contact the alleged victim or come within 50m of where she lives or works.

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REVEALED: The sordid ‘dare’ lists at two WA schools

From the obscene to the disgusting and downright dangerous - here is the full list of more than 200 sordid acts some leavers at two South West high schools are taking part in.

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Top copCleo search boss to join officers in Carnarvon

Superintendent Rod Wilde is expected to land in Carnarvon this week to oversee the search for little Cleo Smith.

Michael Traill & Joey Catanzaro

‘wicked problem’PremiumPremiumNew report reveals alarming surge in meth use in WA

Meth consumption in WA has more than quadrupled since August last year, snapping back to pre-pandemic levels after a dramatic fall linked to COVID-19 restrictions.

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CommentsPremiumWA schools’ sordid leavers dares shock Education Dept

Year 12 students at two WA schools have staged a series of outrageous end-of-year challenges — many of them involving brazen drug-taking, sex, public urination and dangerous stunts.

No wrongdoingPolice cleared in fatal Gosnells shooting

The police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man inside a Gosnells home have been cleared of wrongdoing during an internal investigation.

‘Systematic approach’Forensic police revisit Smith home, Blowholes camp

Forensic police collected ash samples from fires at the Blowholes camp grounds on Wednesday, hours after investigators searched the Carnarvon home of missing four-year-old Cleo Smith for a third time.

Brianna Dugan