Nationals Leader David Littleproud has unveiled a $20 billion Regional Future Fund which he says will guarantee $1 billion every year “in perpetuity” for projects in rural, regional and remote Australia … if the Coalition wins power at the upcoming election.
Just days after hefty new fines were announced for stores stocking and selling illegal tobacco and vapes, three tobacconists in the South Burnett have been raided.
Australian Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Taylor McKeown will be the guest speaker at this year’s South Burnett Relay For Life campaign launch breakfast.
Upgrades to Lions Park in Nanango, which became necessary after storm damage and vandalism, have been completed thanks to a grant secured by the Nanango Lions Club.
A musical version of Disney’s animated hit movie “Frozen” is about to open in Kingaroy for a VERY limited run.
A teenager was taken to Kingaroy Hospital after a single-vehicle crash in Kingaroy on Tuesday night.
A man has been charged following a motorcycle crash in Nanango on Tuesday morning.
Four new fire trucks have joined the rural firefighting fleet in the South Burnett, ready to tackle whatever the upcoming fire season throws at us.
Applications are now open for the State Government’s $2 billion Residential Activation Fund which aims to unlock much-needed housing in Queensland.
Cooyar residents have been invited to “have a conversation” with Toowoomba councillors on Thursday (April 10).
A bequest by a Kilkivan woman has boosted efforts by the not-for-profit Kilkivan & District Community Care Association to implement its Rise & Shine Ageing-in-Place Project.
A motorbike rider, aged in his 50s, was critically injured in a collision in Nanango on Tuesday morning.
Is it Tableland or Tablelands? This was the question no one seemed to be able to answer definitively at the recent Hall Centenary held in the small rural area just north of Murgon.
Fourteen Justices of the Peace from the South Burnett and Somerset regional council areas were recognised for their long service to the community in a small ceremony in Kingaroy on Friday.
A new partnership between Kingaroy Hospital, local GPs and the South Burnett Regional Council aims to reduce visits to hospital emergency departments.
The Dandabah Picnic Area and Visitor Information Centre at the Bunya Mountains is about to get a $6.46 million facelift.
A Coalition Government has promised to reinstate the 80:20 Federal funding split for nationally significant road projects in regional and remote Australia if elected at the upcoming Federal Election.
A man was airlifted to hospital with critical injuries after a single-vehicle crash on the D’Aguilar Highway in the early hours of Monday.
A man aged in his 60s was taken by ambulance to Kingaroy Hospital after a single-vehicle crash near Okeden on Saturday night.
Kingaroy State High School scooped the pool at the recent South Burnett Music Awards.
