A Capes dad’s fight for better services to help people at risk of self-harm has triggered a major pow wow of mental health providers across the State.
Warren Hately
Settlers Tavern was thrilled to come away from this year’s Wotif awards with the people’s choice for best country pub in Australia.
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
The lower South West has two finalists for the State Government’s 2021 WA Heritage awards after the nominations were announced on Wednesday.
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.
A mobile mammogram service will be setting up in Bridgetown from the start of November to provide free breast cancer screenings to rural women.
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
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.
About 200 people are expected to hit Manjimup this weekend for one of the Lower South West’s most treasured sporting competitions.
Manjimup’s basketball stadium has been brought up to the standard of the National Basketball League thanks to some recent major upgrades.
A panel of State Government and Opposition politicians fielded questions from disgruntled business and timber owners over the closure of the native logging industry at a forum on Sunday night.
Some of WA’s oldest motorcycles could be spotted cruising through Manjimup as the 2021 WA Veteran Motorcycle Rally came to town last week.
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.
Read up on this week’s top stories and more in the latest edition of the Manjimup-Bridgetown Times.
Staff Reporters
Creative leaders of the South West will have the opportunity to sharpen their skills as a Statewide program visits Manjimup later this year.
An up and coming British singer has opened up on her incredible journey of loss, healing and love which has brought the making of her new album to the South West.
Voter turnout at a local government ward in the Lower South West was higher than anywhere in WA in the recent elections.
A handful of Lower South West towns cleaned up at the 2021 Tidy Town Awards after being named finalists for multiple categories.
A new initiative coming to Manjimup next month will offer support to people impacted by dementia.
Shire of Dardanup president Mick Bennett has been given the tick of approval to continue in the top role.
Carly Laden
The Lower South West’s next generation of musicians have finally unveiled the project they’ve been working on this year.
With the Containers for Change WA campaign having just crossed the one-year anniversary, the South West region managed to raise $400,000 by returning their drinking containers.
A 31-year-old Australind man has been spared jail for cultivating cannabis to sell to other people.
A Bunbury man has been jailed for threatening to shoot his former partner after going to her home armed with a replica firearm over an ongoing dispute.
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