How a driver’s wrong turn on a Sarajevo street allowed a young Bosnian Serb nationalist to assassinate the heir to the Hapsburg Empire, sparking the carnage of World War I, was explored in a talk in Kingaroy on Friday morning.
The State Government convened a meeting of industry leaders and other stakeholders in Brisbane this week in a bit to ensure Queensland is best prepared to address the risk of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in cattle.
Where should Australian research be focussed to help ensure growers are profitable now and into the future?
Australia Post has released a stamp to celebrate 100 years of work by Country Women’s Associations across Australia to improve the lives of rural and regional women.
The RACQ has called on all political parties and candidates in the upcoming Federal Election to prioritise road projects in the Wide Bay and Burnett – including upgrades to the Burnett and D’Aguilar highways.
The South Burnett’s senior and junior soccer competitions will be getting under way this weekend.
The confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the South Burnett and Cherbourg areas have jumped by 20 during the past 24-hour reporting period.
The South Burnett Regional Council will donate six of its ride-on mowers to South Burnett community groups.
The South Burnett Saints will be heading off to Dalby this weekend for Round 1 of the 2022 Darling Downs AFL competition.
The South Burnett, Cherbourg, Toowoomba and Gympie council areas are no longer officially considered to be in drought.
A State Parliament Select Committee paid a whistlestop visit to Kingaroy on Wednesday to collect information about the mental health issues faced by the South Burnett community.
The South Burnett Regional Council will grant the Kingaroy Chamber Of Commerce and Industry a two-year extension on the group’s proposed business incubator project.
Agents yarded 460 head for the Fat & Store Sale at Murgon Saleyards on Tuesday (April 19).
The comfortable attire of South Burnett councillors at this week’s Council meeting had nothing to do with their relaxed country ways … it was actually part of a worldwide campaign against sexual violence in the community.
Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise (TSBE) will be hosting an information evening in Chinchilla next month for potential suppliers to the Wambo Wind Farm project.
The death toll from COVID-19 in the Darling Downs Health region has risen to 27, with two more fatalities reported by Queensland Health on Wednesday.
Why did Australians go to Gallipoli? That’s the question a special presentation by local author Dr Les Henning hopes to answer on Friday morning.
It wasn’t the prettiest car on the track – and a Chrysler Centura doesn’t usually spring to mind as a race car – but the combination was just right for Mareeba driver Matt Smith to take home the National Production Sedan Title at the Kingaroy Speedway on Sunday night.
Wondai’s annual Autumn Garden Expo attracted large crowds at the weekend, with cars parked along both sides of the Bunya Highway.
A Holden ute stolen from a property on Redmans Road in Kingaroy in the early hours of Saturday was found burnt out in Coolabunia later the same day.
