A young musician who has often represented Murgon State High School and has twice won the school’s Music Award has also won this year’s South Burnett Junior Cultural Award.
Two Nanango women who toiled for more than six years to produce the “Every Many Remembered – South Burnett Heroes” database have jointly received this year’s Senior Cultural Award.
A 14-year-old cricketer who routinely plays against much older opponents is the South Burnett’s Junior Sports Award winner for 2016.
Alicia Pidgeon, who has looked after the South Burnett Senior Rep rugby league side for the past six years and travelled with the Wide Bay Country side for the past four has been recognised as the South Burnett Sportsperson (Coach/Official or Administrator) for 2016.
The South Burnett’s annual Relay For Life, which celebrated its tenth outing in 2015, has won this year’s award for the South Burnett’s Community Organisation Of The Year.
Helen Young is the South Burnett’s Volunteer Of The Year for 2016.
Former Nanango Race Club president and long-serving Nanango Shire Councillor John Lee is the winner of the South Burnett’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016.
A highlight of this year’s South Burnett Australia Day Awards ceremony at Proston was the welcome received by a new Australian citizen into the local community.
By the time Australia Day rolls around next year, Blackbutt’s Memorial Hall should have a new home
A 21-year-old man who admitted drinking alcohol with mates in a children’s playground in Kingaroy was placed on a good behaviour bond when he appeared in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on Monday.
Police have charged a 38-year-old Linville man with unlawful wounding after investigations into an alleged altercation between two men at Moore on Monday morning.
Last year was the hottest on record by an astonishing margin, according to a new report by the Climate Council.
Josh Arnold, the singer-songwriter who crafts special songs for small towns, is coming back to the South Burnett … this time to Blackbutt and Benarkin.
The Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s next meet’n’greet will be held at “The Nest”, the nightclub area at the Commercial Hotel in Kingaroy.
Potential rural doctors undertaking advanced skills training in anaesthesia have been given a head start in Toowoomba.
South Burnett artists and craftspeople have been invited to take part in the Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery’s Great Summer Sale and Auction next month.
The “Boy from Blackbutt” – or should that be Nukku – tennis champ Roy Emerson is being celebrated on a new stamp issued on Thursday by Australia Post.
The South Burnett is gearing up for its annual Australia Day celebrations on Tuesday, with community events planned in almost every town around the region.
Racing Minister Grace Grace has confirmed that State Government funding will override the cuts detailed in Racing Queensland’s Tracking Towards Sustainability document published last December.
A recent trip to Papua New Guinea has given Nanango resident Jenny Morgan a great idea about how she can help support women in Australia’s nearest neighbour … quite literally!
