Families flock to blues festival
The Vintage Blues Festival in the Great Southern this weekend is expected to attract 3,000 people.
View ArticleA thrift shift
Could you give up the supermarket for 18 months? Do you know the best ways to nurture you bank account? We look at ways to save a dollar or two...
View ArticlePolice extend child porn crackdown
Police say a state-wide operation targeting child pornography will expand further into regional Western Australia from this week.
View ArticleThe back road for the hunchbacks of the computers
Hunched over a laptop is the norm for teens...
View ArticleNationals urge child care laws rethink
The Nationals have called for changes to child care legislation to better cater for day care facilities in the regions.
View ArticleCouncil leaves door open on new childcare centre
The Lake Grace Council has voted against a motion to build a childcare centre in the town but left open the prospect of reviving the project in the near future.
View ArticleGreat Southern post natal depression program a model for others to follow
The Great Southern mental health services 'Bouncing Back Program' is setting a good example for other regional centres to follow.
View ArticleA national park called home
In anticipation of World Parks Day this Saturday, ABC South Coast and Great Southern are shining the spotlight on the region's spectacular national parks.
View ArticleNew laws crack down on child car restraints
The group representing local governments has conceded it will be hard to police tough new laws about child car restraints, especially in regional areas.
View ArticleScheme to offer child car restraint access
The WA Local Government Association (WALGA) has established a program to help families in financial difficulty get access to child car restraints.
View ArticlePart-time childcare centres to remain open
The Minister for Community Services says the 23 part-time childcare centres in Western Australia will continue to operate, despite federal government funding cuts last year.
View ArticleMining families get survival guide
Families struggling with the stresses of working in the mining industry will now have access to a guide featuring advice from a psychologist.
View ArticleUnderwood family walks Bibbulmun Track
Jim Underwood, his wife Katie and their young family have recently completed a walk from Fremantle to Denmark on the Bibbulmun Track, which has taken them two months.
View ArticleGeneration why: music
The music young people listen to these day just isn't the same as it was back in the day.
View ArticleGeneration why: games
How the games we play as children have changed throughout the generations.
View ArticleGeneration why: domestic skills
Have Generation Y women lost the domestic skills their mothers were so good at?
View ArticleGeneration why: food
The way we eat has changed throughout the generations so would a Generation Y enjoy the food her Baby Boomer parents ate when they were growing up?
View ArticleTalking 'bout my generation
Are baby boomers so different from their Gen Y offspring? Meghan Woods compares her life with her parents.
View ArticleSpirit of expression saves Noongar language in South Coast Community School
Have you ever thought about learning another language? Perhaps French, or Italian Or maybe even Mandarin? What about something closer to home, Noongar?
View ArticleAlbany's Southern Right Males Choir and friends, singing up a storm for men's...
With a sound as big as a whale, the Southern Right Males with fellow choirs, the Ballpoint Penguins, the Green Island Boys and Contraband, will boom their voices from the big stage of the Albany...
View ArticleE-history takes genealogy online
"You can find information very quickly now, in the old days we used to have to write letters to England." Forget moth-ridden library books and hand written letters, the internet is taking genealogical...
View ArticleNoongar dolls are yarns from the heart
If you've been into a toyshop lately, or marvelled at what kids amuse themselves with these days, you might've thought about how much simpler and home-made our toys used to be.
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty to child stealing, assault
A 47-year-old Great Southern woman has pleaded guilty to stealing a child from an Albany primary school and assaulting a teacher's assistant.
View ArticleAlicia Molik in Albany
Alicia Molik was in Albany recently to help celebrate one of the regions oldest sporting clubs turn 100 years old.
View ArticleAlbany to Perth Million dollar ride for youth
The Ride for Youth celebrated its 10th anniversary this week when a group of lycra clad bicycle riders, wielding bike pumps and funny hats, took off from Albany on a 700 kilometre journey to Perth....
View ArticleRental prices hurting the Great Southern's poor
Poor people in the Great Southern are struggling to maintain stable accomodation while only 2 per cent of the housing rental market is in reach of people on a minimum wage, Centrelink benefit or a...
View ArticleA Mothers story: Kiya
Kiya is a 19 year old girl with more on her plate than most young women her age. Kiya is a dedicated Mum to her 2 year old twin boys.
View ArticleA Mothers story: Hannah
On Mother's Day 2007 Hannah's 3 year old son was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a deadly childhood cancer.
View ArticleGrandparents pick up the pieces after the 'death of a dream'
We all dream of retirement at some stage of our lives. The kids have flown the coup, the plans for that trip around Australia are on the table or perhaps you're just working on your golf handicap. But...
View ArticleCrook says caring grandparents need assistance
Nationals MP Tony Crook says grandparents caring for their grandchildren should get the same entitlements as foster parents.
View ArticleSelf-help book launched for mining families
An online support service for miners and their families is launching a new resource aimed at helping people cope with the mining lifestyle.
View ArticleCountry parents fear cost of earlier start to high school
Parents in country Western Australia say the State Government's move to shift students into high school a year earlier will disadvantage regional families.
View ArticleOnline connection to offline relationships the social trend in 2013
Social researcher Mark McCrindle peers ahead to next year and sees record population growth, a more conservative younger generation and a continuing focus on community
View ArticleDr Norman Swan debunks a few myths about alcohol and drinking
Straight talking about hangovers, teaching children to drink and some signs of impending liver damage.
View ArticleLetting the kids get bored this summer
As adults we often look back on school holidays with nostalgia and think fondly of days of active play and joyous liberty. But as parents, as the weeks of summer stretch before us into February, we...
View ArticleAussie kids tipping the scales
Do parents and health professionals realise just how overweight Australian children have become?
View ArticleBack to school: A parent's guide
A handful of practicle advice about sending the kids back to school.
View ArticleRural doubts aired over child health check pledge
A rural health service says the Liberals' election promise, to provide health checks for preschoolers, will be hindered by a lack of allied health services in rural areas.
View ArticleFears aired for Aboriginal kindergarten
Albany's Indigenous community has expressed alarm that the only local Aboriginal kindergarten could close.
View ArticleApology for a mother's unbearable loss
While it is thought that the separating of mothers from their newborns ended in 1970, a Western Australian Mother recalls the heartache she felt when her son was taken from her in 1981.
View ArticleFigures reveal Spencer Park child development worries
Statistics showing more than half the five-year-old children in the Albany suburb of Spencer Park are considered developmentally vulnerable have been described as "deeply concerning".
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