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The City of Albany are advising residents that rabbit control will begin during late Spring at Emu Point and Mount Adelaide using carrot baits treated with the naturally occurring strain of rabbit calicivirus RHDV1-K5.

A self-guided tour of Albany’s heritage sites will provide residents and visitors the opportunity to learn about Albany’s Anzac legacy.

The City of Albany is advising swimmers the Ellen Cove shark barrier is secure and there is no need to be concerned after a dead shark was located within the swimming enclosure this morning.

Narelle Levin of Melbourne will visit Albany later this month as she retraces the footsteps of two of her loved ones who were among the Anzac soldiers to sail from King George Sound in 1914 for World War I.

New tourism organisation Amazing South Coast Tourism Inc has recruited more than three decades of experience to help lead its members in promoting the region as a destination by appointing Peter Grigg as its executive officer.

Within the glowing stems of the Field of Light: Avenue of Honour a choral performance titled By Other Eyes will commemorate the centenary of Armistice on November 11.

Two soldiers who sailed from Albany aboard a troopship in November 2014 for the centenary of the departure of Anzacs from King George Sound have returned home in time to be part of events remembering the end of the Great War.

Albany will host one of the biggest Remembrance Day programs in Australia to mark 100 years since the Armistice of WWI.

Four diggers whose names were missing from the Avenue of Honour on Mount Clarence will receive new plaques this week ahead of the opening of an exhibition paying tribute to the more than 180 men and women remembered along the Avenue.

Float registrations for the 2018 Christmas Festival and Pageant are now open!