Three Charged With Drug Driving
The Kingaroy Road Policing Unit has detected three alleged drug drivers in Kingaroy in just two days.
Audit Report Finds APVMA Flaws
A scathing audit of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has found the agency failed to consider the risks that its relocation to Armidale would pose to staffing.
Art Workshop ‘First Of Its Kind’
Love horses? Want to learn how to draw or paint them? An art workshop for adults and children in Blackbutt on Saturday, July 1 could be the answer.
Rail Trail Sealing Completed
A year-long effort to seal the South Burnett Rail Trail between Kingaroy and Murgon has now come to an end.
Looking To The Nursery
Two Brisbane carnival results and this Saturday’s final Group One of the season draw attention to theme of nurturing.
Crash Sparks Blackout
About 300 Ergon Energy customers lost power for four hours on Friday after a motor vehicle accident
Detectives Lay 78 Charges
Detectives from Murgon and Kingaroy have joined colleagues from Dalby, Toowoomba, Roma, St George and Charleville in a blitz targeting various offences.
Students Learn Driving Survival Skills
Nanango State High School students learned a very valuable life lesson this week: how to survive on the South Burnett’s roads.
Youth Unemployment Hits 24pc
Unemployment in the Wide Bay region – which includes the South Burnett – dropped 0.3 per cent last month, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released by the State Government on Thursday.
Panthers Take Most Of The Points
Panthers notched up a narrow win against their 1st Division arch-rivals Gunners when the two teams met on the Panthers home turf at the Burnett Street sports grounds on Saturday
Polaris Recalls Youth Quads
Australian quad bike supplier Polaris is recalling 12 models in its “youth” range of quad bikes due to the presence of asbestos.
Festival Just Keeps Getting Bigger
Organisers of this Saturday’s Wondai Country Festival are very excited, because the brand new event just seems to keep getting bigger.
Online Bullying More Common In Regions
People in regional Australia are more likely to have witnessed bullying or harassment on social media than their metropolitan counterparts and are more than twice as likely to have been bullied themselves, according to a new report.
Ulysses Seek Help For Christmas Toy Run
The Ulysses club wants to spread the joy of Christmas to needy South Burnett families this December
Farm Debt Mediation Starts July 1
Queensland farmers in financial difficulty will have more protection from July 1 when mandatory farm business debt mediation comes into effect.
Fairytale Performance By Students
Once upon a time about 50 students dazzled parents and friends in Kingaroy with musical renditions of the traditional tale of Beauty and the Beast.
Community Hospital Gets Two Cheques
The Lady Bjelke-Petersen Community Hospital Foundation is now $57,902 better off thanks to two events – one big, one smaller – that ran in Kingaroy last month.
Saints Win ‘Game Of The Round’
Darling Downs AFL’s “game of the round” last weekend proved to be just that with the resurgent South Burnett Saints teaching the unbeaten University Cougars a lesson at Lyle Vidler Oval.
Hospital Staff Sock It To Mental Health
Kingaroy Health Service staff put their best foot forward for a good cause earlier this month to mark “Socks4Docs” Day.
MP Fears Cuts To Legal Service
Member for Nanango – and former solicitor – Deb Frecklington is worried that State Government cuts will force the Women’s Legal Service to stop providing key services to the South Burnett.
