The first of four Strong Choices “virtual town hall” teleconferences organised by the State Government will get underway this evening with residents from the Darling Downs and western Queensland invited to take part.
Toowoomba Mayor Paul Antonio will represent southern Queensland’s interests in a group formed to ensure local government plays a key role in the development of the Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail line.
Real estate developers in regional Queensland will save time and money and find it easier to connect to the electricity grid under a new charter released by Ergon Energy, according to the State Government.
A possum has been blamed for a blackout that left about 1700 Ergon Energy customers in Kingaroy without power for about two hours last night.
The Wondai Chamber Of Commerce will change from a purely business-oriented group into a more broadly based community organisation that will act as “the voice of Wondai”, a public meeting decided last night.
The State Government is seeking feedback on a new code which will be used to assess wind farm developments in Queensland.
A public meeting will be held at the Wondai Regional Art Gallery from 6:00pm this evening to discuss the future of the Wondai Chamber Of Commerce, which went into mothballs last month.
Popular Hivesville publican Jane Sullivan will soon be on the other side of the bar.
A damaged cable at a Nanango substation has been blamed for a blackout which affected a large part of the South Burnett on Sunday.
Hot on the heels of its decision to approve the Taabinga Downs relocatable home project, the South Burnett Regional Council yesterday approved alterations to the master plan for parts of the large estate on the northern side of Kingaroy, formerly known as Sunnyvale.
The South Burnett Regional Council’s attempt to make household budgets easier to manage by introducing quarterly rates is proving hard to wind back.
John Dundas Automotive is hosting the historic Kingaroy Airport model created for the Burnett War Museum
The State Government says the removal of “prescriptive” reliability standards from electricity distributors on July 1 will save $2 billion over the next 15 years and put downward pressure on electricity prices.
The State Government today unveiled a “do-it-yourself” online tool so Queenslanders can design their own debt reduction strategy.
ALP Senator John Hogg may have just 11 weeks left in his political career but that didn’t stop him from visiting members of the newly formed South Burnett branch of the party on Saturday for a pep talk.
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection has charged Linc Energy Limited with causing serious environmental harm in relation to its pilot Underground Coal Gasification plant near Chinchilla.
Member for Wide Bay and Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has met with Mr Paul Fletcher, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, to discuss the Federal Government’s new mobile phone black spot program
Telstra has switched on 4G LTE mobile coverage in the Nanango area which should mean faster downloads for customers with the right equipment.
Ergon Energy has today unveiled a new Outage Finder on its website that will help customers quickly access up-to-date information about any power supply interruptions on the network.
The South Burnett Tourism Association plans to launch a membership drive this year to double its numbers.
