Which local newspapers and sections are available on WD News Publications?

WD News Publications is a Victorian regional news group serving south-west Victoria through six mastheads: WD Farmer, Camperdown Chronicle, Cobden Timboon Coast Times, Mortlake Dispatch, Terang Express and Warrnambool Weekly. Most mastheads carry the same four core sections — General News, Community, Council and Sport — while WD Farmer replaces those with agricultural coverage. You can browse by publication or by town, and the site also offers online editions, daily puzzles and a newsletter signup.

The six mastheads and what each covers

The four standard sections mean the same type of story appears under the same heading across the town-based papers, so once you know where to look in one masthead, you know where to look in the others.

How to browse

You have two practical routes:

• By publication — pick the masthead that matches your town or interest. If you follow farming, go straight to WD Farmer; if you want Mortlake news, use Mortlake Dispatch.
• By town — the site's coverage is organised around Camperdown, Cobden, Colac, Mortlake, Terang, Timboon and Simpson, so town-level browsing surfaces stories across the relevant masthead and section.

Story pages also carry a section label (for example, "Mortlake News" or "Council"), which lets you confirm which masthead and category a story belongs to before reading.

What the sections actually contain

Examples drawn from the site's own listings show how the categories are used in practice:

• General News — state and regional items, such as the announcement that six-carriage trains would arrive that month, or a local MP questioning when the regions get a fair share.
• Council — shire-level decisions and advocacy, such as Moyne Shire councillors endorsing the Moyne Planning Scheme Review 2026, or Corangamite Shire Council taking regional issues to Canberra.
• Community — local people, events and fundraising, such as a relief fundraiser for Nepalese flood victims booking out, or the return of the Colour Terang Festival.
• Sport — club and competition news, such as the state government backing the Mortlake Cup, or a feature on Mortlake's old netball goals being sent to a village in Papua New Guinea to restart competitive sport there.
• WD Farmer — farming-specific categories covering beef, lamb, cropping and soil, animal health and husbandry, and machinery and infrastructure.

Other features on the site

Beyond the mastheads and sections, the site provides online editions, daily puzzles, a newsletter signup and a subscription option. Contact details for WD News are listed as (03) 5593 1888. The available page evidence does not state what a subscription costs or what it includes, so check the subscription page directly if that matters to you.

Choosing the right entry point

• You want one town's news → open that town's masthead (for example, Mortlake Dispatch) and use its General News, Community, Council and Sport sections.
• You want farming coverage → use WD Farmer and its beef, lamb, cropping and soil, animal health, and machinery categories.
• You want to scan everything → start from the latest news listings, which mix stories from across the mastheads and label each with its section.