Council Delays Birt Road Decision
Birt Road residents in Kingaroy are unlikely to get part of their street sealed in the coming year, despite on-site meetings and lodging a petition
Birt Road residents in Kingaroy are unlikely to get part of their street sealed in the coming year, despite on-site meetings and lodging a petition
The South Burnett is going to look a bit greener thanks to a Federal Government program to “plant trees for the Queen’s Jubilee”.
South Burnett Regional Council is trialling specialist equipment to help keep the footpaths clean in Murgon, Wondai, Kingaroy, Nanango, Blackbutt and Proston.
South Burnett Regional Council has advised that the rail trail between Murgon and Goomeri has been temporarily closed at the creek crossing.
South Burnett councillors have turned down a 2 per cent pay rise to keep faith with local residents.
South Burnett Regional Council has reminded motorists they should always drive to conditions on unsealed roads.
Five roads remain closed throughout the South Burnett region in the wake of the recent rain but another 11 remain “affected”, according to Council.
The recently installed South Burnett Regional Youth Council will be hosting the next Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce and Industry meet’n’greet.
South Burnett Councillor Danita Potter has been appointed Chair of the South Burnett Local Disaster Management Group (LDMG).
Cherbourg played host to a special Vice-Regal visit on Wednesday to celebrate the opening of major upgrades to the community’s water treatment plant.
Council is offering a free workshop to show how to turn food scraps into fertiliser.
Low-interest loans are now available for primary producers and small businesses in the South Burnett affected by this year’s floods.
Friday marked the start of National Reconciliation Week which this year has the theme, “Be Brave, Make Change”.
A new cafe and retail shop will be built in Kilkivan if Gympie Regional Council approves the project.
South Burnett Regional Council will hold public consultation meetings in June and July this year to discuss the future of Mondure, Cloyna and Tingoora halls.
Cherbourg residents are facing a long, seven-hour power outage on Thursday (May 26).
A little more than four years after it opened, the South Burnett Rail Trail is now generating between $600,000 and $1 million a year in tourism dollars for the region.
South Burnett Regional Council CEO Mark Pitt PSM has been named as a finalist in the Outstanding Leadership Awards.
Toowoomba Regional Council has appointed a new Finance and Business Strategy General Manager.
The deadline to submit information to the Sunwater survey into local irrigators’ water needs has been extended to June 17.