2016 State Budget: What We Get
Graham House Neighbourhood Centre at Murgon and Cherbourg Aboriginal Council appear to be the only winners in the South Burnett from Tuesday’s State Budget.
Graham House Neighbourhood Centre at Murgon and Cherbourg Aboriginal Council appear to be the only winners in the South Burnett from Tuesday’s State Budget.
Kingaroy portrait photographer Levi-Craig Murray has an exhibition booked in at the Wondai Art Gallery in 2018 … now he’s looking for a few more willing subjects to help him fill the walls.
South Burnett residents were in rev head heaven when the inaugural Wondai Street Sprints roared into action at the weekend.
The commissioning of Proteco’s new $3.2 million specialist edible oil refinery in Kingaroy began this week after two years of construction and three years of planning.
A motor racing track has sprung into existence in the back streets of the Wondai Industrial Estate … all ready for this weekend’s inaugural Wondai Street Sprints.
A 350MW wind farm located 50km south-west of Kingaroy could be adding electricity to Queensland’s power grid by 2020, and construction could begin as soon as next year.
The connection of all Australians to country, the natural environment and to one another is the central theme of this month’s exhibition at the Wondai Regional Art Gallery.
The 95th birthday of the Inverlaw Hall was celebrated in style on Saturday night with visitors coming from all over the local district for a special supper dance.
It’s not every day that a South Burnett organisation wins a national award, which is the reason why the crew from Gumnut Place in Murgon earned a standing ovation on Wednesday.
A tent city sprang up in a paddock just west of Kingaroy last weekend to house the hundreds – and hundreds – of trail bike riders who came to town for the annual Lions Charity Trail Bike Ride.
The crowds that rolled up for Goomeri’s annual Pumpkin Festival at the weekend were bigger than ever; in fact, at the top of Policeman’s Hill, you could say they were squashed in!
For the hundreds of past students, old school friends and official guests, Saturday’s 125th anniversary of Coolabunia State School was an opportunity to swap memories, tell tall tales and, perhaps, get lost in the hay bale maze set up for the day.
A crowd of about 200 packed the Nanango Cultural Centre on Friday night for the opening of the 10th annual Heritage Bank Nanango Film Festival.
It these faces are looking pleased, it’s for good reason … the first day of surgeries at the reopened Lady Bjelke-Petersen Community Hospital in Kingaroy went off without a hitch.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley MBE, AO is a firm believer that tennis can change lives, after all, it definitely changed hers …
An ambitious project to encourage South Burnett shoppers to “shop local” was launched at a series of business breakfasts across the region last week.
Everyone loves a chance to frock up and have a ball … and the latest fundraiser for the RACQ CareFlight helicopters held in Kingaroy at the weekend provided just that.
The SBRC has a contract with the Blackbutt supermarket developer, and has no intention of breaking it
There was a lot of show and almost too much (sun)shine at the South Burnett Car Club’s annual Show, Shine and Swap Meet at Nanango on Sunday.
Brett and Trevor Otto’s “Walk With Lynda” to raise funds for the Melanoma Awareness Foundation’s “Lynda Geiger Young Mums Program” has raised an amazing $30,000.