Junior Cricketers Keen To Play
Junior cricket appears to be thriving in the South Burnett; every weekend there are Stage 2 and Stage 3 games played and younger players are also regularly turning out in the senior competition.
Work To Start Soon On $5.5m Project
Construction of the new $5.5 million Yarraman Waste Management Facility is set to begin within weeks.
Goomeri Honours Life Members
A heavy rainstorm couldn’t stop the Goomeri & District Show Society from honouring five new Life Members in a special ceremony on Thursday night.
MP Quizzed Over Palliative Care
Kingaroy’s new hospital has one room set aside for palliative care but does not have any dedicated palliative care staff, Health Minister Yvette D’ath admitted this week.
Paradise Dam May Spill: Sunwater
Sunwater has issued an alert that Paradise Dam, near Bundaberg, may spill water in coming days due to rainfall in catchment.
Police Seize Cannabis Plants
Police have charged a 39-year-old man with drug and other offences after they searched a Runnymede property on Tuesday.
Kingaroy Hoon Fined $716
A hoon whose driving interrupted Kingaroy’s Remembrance Day commemoration service on Thursday has lost his car for 90 days.
Man Swept Away By Flash Flood
A man has been safely rescued after his vehicle was swept off Darley Crossing Road by flash-flooding at Brooklands on Friday morning.
Warning … Wanita’s On Her Way!
The star of an awarded documentary will be coming to Kingaroy next week for a special screening and a no-holds-barred Q&A with the audience.
$22m Expansion Unveiled In Kingaroy
Australia’s first de-fatted nut flour production facility is set to be built in Kingaroy, creating almost a hundred ongoing permanent jobs in the region.
Kingaroy Remembers, Lest We Forget
The rain held off for Kingaroy’s annual commemoration of Remembrance Day at the Rotunda in Memorial Park on Thursday.
Murgon Weathers The Storm
The rain gods smiled on Murgon’s 2021 Remembrance Day service, but it was a very close run thing.
Barbed Wire Bull Steals The Show
A life-size steel statue of a bull built with more than 2.5km of barbed wire now greets visitors to the Nanango Showgrounds.
Students Take Bull By The Horns
Year 9 and 10 STEM students at Saint Mary’s Catholic College in Kingaroy have been working on solutions for common problems faced by farmers.
Boost For Sub-Branch
Murgon RSL Sub-Branch will almost $5000 from the Federal Government’s “Building Excellence in Support and Training” (BEST) grants program.
Ag Minister Defends Visa Scheme
Agriculture Minister and Member for Maranoa David Littleproud has defended the Federal Government’s new Ag Visa program after criticism from the Labor Party.
Pink Power Raises Almost $9000
This year’s Pinking Up The South Burnett fundraiser has raised nearly $9000 for the McGrath Foundation.
Help The Salvos Help Others
The Kingaroy Visitor Information Centre is now accepting donations for the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal.
Premier Praises Cherbourg ‘Positivity’
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk praised Cherbourg Council and the positivity she had seen in the community, when she visited the town on Wednesday.
Park Plan Draft Out By New Year
The first draft of plans for an upgrade to the top end of Murgon’s QEII Park – between Gore Street and the Visitor Information Centre – could be available by the end of December or early January.
