Historic Milestone At Solar Farm
The Kingaroy Solar Farm passed an important milestone on Wednesday, with the mounting of the last solar panel on site.
The Kingaroy Solar Farm passed an important milestone on Wednesday, with the mounting of the last solar panel on site.
Retail company Best & Less Pty Ltd has signed an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman to back-pay some staff a total of more than $5.2 million.
BlueCare – operators of Kingaroy’s Canowindra Aged Care Facility – says it has boosted some workers’ pay by 5 per cent on top of recent mandated award rises.
Even an early removal of Chinese anti-dumping tariffs will not be enough to stop Australia’s wine industry facing years of oversupply, Rabobank has warned in its latest Wine Quarterly report.
Telstra it will be switching off its 3G mobile phone network on June 30 next year.
For the second year in a row, the team at South Burnett Child Safety have taken out the BaconFest window competition.
Blackbutt’s waste transfer station will get a commercial waste collection facility in the next few months.
The State Government has begun a review of the Wind Farm Code which sets out requirements for wind farm developments in Queensland.
Anyone who attended last week’s economic update evening, hosted by the Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce of Industry, won’t have been surprised by Tuesday’s interest rates announcement.
Applications for Round 5 of Wine Australia’s Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grants program is now open for wine producers.
BIEDO General Manager Kristy Board has announced she will be leaving the economic development body on August 25.
Western Downs Regional Council has been recognised as the Large Employer of the Year for the second consecutive year at the regional finals of the prestigious Queensland Training Awards.
The Oakey Coal Action Alliance has lodged a stay application in the Land Court against New Acland Coal, proponents of the Stage 3 coal mine expansion.
Two South Burnett finalists have brought home trophies from the Darling Downs and South West Region finals of the Queensland Training Awards, held on Friday night in Toowoomba.
The Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce and Industry is bringing a special guest speaker to the South Burnett next week to talk to local businesspeople.
Two men have been charged after animal rights activists released drone footage allegedly shot over Swickers abattoir in Kingaroy last year.
Rhys Cobbo – an employee at Cherbourg Council’s Containers For Change depot in Kingaroy – was presented with a prestigious “Change Maker” award in Brisbane on Thursday night.
RES – the company developing the proposed Tarong West Wind Farm at Ironpot – will be holding two more public information sessions next week.
Applications have now opened for apprenticeships with Ergon Energy, with more than 100 roles on offer.
Kingaroy Rotary’s changeover night welcomed four new Paul Harris Fellows and honoured long-standing members.