CEO To Retire On Friday
The South Burnett Regional Council will lose its most senior officer this Friday when CEO Gary Wall retires after a 47-year career in local government.
The South Burnett Regional Council will lose its most senior officer this Friday when CEO Gary Wall retires after a 47-year career in local government.
1200 quality weaners were yarded last Friday, June 22, for Pratt Agencies’ annual June Weaner Sale.
Kingaroy’s peanut industry has received a massive vote of confidence with the recent multi-million dollar expansion at G. Crumpton and Son’s complex at Crawford.
South Burnett Mayor Keith Campbell has defended a decision in the 2018-19 Budget to charge rural landholders more for roadworks than town dwellers
Despite level-pegging at the first change, the South Burnett Saints went on to record a stinging victory over the Warwick Redbacks in the Darling Downs AFL competition on Saturday.
Kingaroy singer-songwriter Laudy, who is probably better known to her South Burnett fans as Laura Limb or Laura J. – will be releasing her first single in Brisbane this Wednesday, June 27.
The first stage of a proposed multi-million dollar livestock production and processing facility in the Brisbane Valley was officially opened on Tuesday.
A truck driver is recovering in hospital after he was trapped inside the cab of his over-turned prime mover for more than six hours on Tuesday.
Opposition Leader and Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington has called on the State Government to scrap what she describes as a “heartless” tax on grey nomads.
The Queensland Government is offering interest-free, seven year loans to eligible families to install 3 kilowatt solar systems and reduce their electricity costs.
Cr Terry Fleischfresser has praised the Council’s 2018-19 Budget, saying it was ‘the Budget we have to have’.
The Centre For Supervised Distance Education – a special facility in Kingaroy for Distance Education students – now has almost $1000 worth of new equipment, courtesy of the local Westpac Bank branch.
A 16-year-old Cherbourg teenager has been charged over a ram raid at a Kingaroy bottleshop in the early hours of Saturday morning.
South Burnett residents will pay an extra $57 a year in water, sewerage and waste removal charges from July 1, but large businesses will get some relief from high water usage charges.
Police are appealing for urgent public assistance to find a 13-year-old boy reported missing from Memerambi on Monday.
South Burnett Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff says while she is broadly happy with Council’s 2018-19 Budget, changes to road funding and cuts to community groups are causing her concern.
The South Burnett Regional Council’s 2018-19 Budget will invest almost $26 million into the region’s 3000km road network over the coming year.
The Wide Bay Burnett is one of 10 regions across the country which has been targeted for help under a new Federal Government jobs trial
Applications for Toowoomba Regional Council’s next round of community grants will open on July 1.
Farmers could face rate rises of between 5 and 6 per cent following the scrapping of the South Burnett Regional Council’s controversial $200 annual road levy.