The Great Southern Herald is a weekly newspaper published in Katanning, Western Australia.

[1] It is distributed to communities in Katanning, Kojonup, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup and Lake Grace.

The newspaper was first published on Saturday 5 October 1901 to provide residents in Katanning and the surrounding districts with local and general interest news, including agricultural market reports and advice, local political developments, business and services advertisements, sporting results and social events.

[12][13] Issues (1901–1954) of this newspaper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program[14] of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of Western Australia.

Hard copies of the latest six months of the Great Southern Herald are available on open access at the State Library of Western Australia.