Narrogin Observer

From humble Great Southern beginnings, a football legend has risen to be named the 2026 Channel 7 Sport Award recipient at the West Australian of the Year Awards.

Narrogin’s elderly look set to have their help at home provided by the Silverchain Group after the shire council agreed to finalise an agreement to lease Jessie House, on Clayton Road, to the organisation.

After years of crashes and near misses, a notorious Lake Grace intersection is finally getting a long-awaited safety upgrade with works expected to be completed by July. 

Legislation to introduce mandatory train lighting is set to be introduced this week, a quarter of a century after it was recommended in a coroner’s report on the death of three young people at Yarramony.

The Dumbleyung airstrip was made unsafe for light aircraft after vandals used the runway to do high-speed burnouts last week.

The RAC rescue helicopter took a woman in her 30s to Jandakot Airport after her car hit a tree on Brookton Highway near Jelcobine on Wednesday afternoon.

I’ve provided the rail industry’s own research in three national train lighting reports released in the last five years; all of which found that increased train lighting improves their visibility. And yet.

Corrigin’s Rod Slater Raceway held its grand reopening at the weekend after 38 years of the racetrack being out of commission, showcasing multiple racing divisions and the hard work of local volunteers. 

Seventy Narrogin and Districts Netball Association players and officials attended the 2026 Fuel to Go and Play Association Championships held at the Gold Netball Centre over the June long weekend.

Major initiatives to boost food access and establish nutrition, cooking and gardening programs will soon be afoot in Narrogin, Katanning, Kojonup, Broomehill-Tambellup, and Gnowangerup.

A Wagin man has been jailed after police found him with more than 60 “depraved” child exploitation materials on his phone in a targeted sting.

The finalists for WA’s best steak sandwich have been announced and not a single sanga is under $30.

The Wheatbelt felt the effects of the wild weather that took place over the long weekend with chaotic winds and rain rushing through the region disrupting power supplies. 

Undefeated Kojonup took care of winless Boyup Brook on the road by 57 points in the weekend’s sole Lower South West Football League fixture. 

Narrogin residents are being asked whether they would like to see the townsite’s four major entry signs replaced with stone statements, at an estimated cost of more than $170,000.

A team of dedicated environmentalists are helping nature lovers learn what is in their own backyard with a series of a flora and fauna cataloguing workshops. 

A Tenterden farmer was given a pleasant surprise last week when one of his ewes gave birth to a rare quadruplet of lambs.

National goatmeat export booms but Darkan goat farmer of 30 years says interest in goat farming is waning

A Perth school community whose boarding families have been hit hard by drought have raised more than $50,000 for emergency hay deliveries to drought-stricken areas

Tens of thousands of households have lost power across southern WA in the past 24 hours and many face a long wait for it to be restored, the silver lining is they will be eligible for payment.