An 18-year-old youth was placed on a 12 months intensive correction order – basically prison in the community – after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during a disturbance at Cherbourg on August 30.
A man who tried to euthanase an injured bull by shooting it “four or five” times in the head with a .22 calibre rifle – and then came back the following afternoon to finish the job off – was fined $6000 in Kingaroy Magistrates Court today.
A 46-year-old man has died after the bicycle he was riding collided with a truck at Murgon this morning.
Recreational anglers have been reminded to brush up on their fishing gear rules after a fisher charged by Kingaroy patrol officers was fined $2000.
Two people were treated for minor smoke inhalation after a kitchen fire at the Yarraman Hotel-Motel in Margaret Street this afternoon.
A reward is being offered for the safe return of a camera that went missing at Kingaroy Airport on Saturday afternoon.
An 85-year-old man missing in the Durong area since Sunday has been located safe and well.
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A sustainable forestry plantation near Toowoomba, designed to become a future source of power poles for Ergon Energy, narrowly escaped disaster when bushfires ripped through the region this week.
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Firefighters called to a blaze at Speedwell today protected eight farm buildings from flames.
The large bushfire which has been burning in inaccessible land in the Allies Creek State Forest is moving towards pastoral and grassland south west of Mundubbera.
Volunteers from a number of South Burnett Rural Fire Service brigades attended a meeting in Maryborough last night as part of a special Ministerial review into the RFS.
South Burnett residents live in one of the lowest crime areas in Queensland, an analysis of the annual Gympie Police District crime figures reveals.
A fire which broke out yesterday morning at Booubyjan is still burning in inaccessible country but does not pose a risk to property.
A man who stole $50 from the purse of a fellow worker at Kingaroy’s SupaIGA store has be sentenced to 80 hours community service and had a conviction recorded.
Crime increased by an average of 6 per cent across Queensland last financial year, but fell by 1 per cent in the North Coast Region (which includes the South Burnett) according to the Queensland Police Service’s 2011-2012 Annual Statistical Review.
Queenslanders will be able to report minor incidents to police at the touch of a button with the new Policelink phone app launched this afternoon.
The Queensland Early Intervention Pilot Project – an alcohol awareness and early intervention program which operates in Cherbourg – will be marking its second anniversary this week.
Bulldozers were called in this morning to put in breaks to control a fire burning in a State Forest near Wondai.
