Last night’s emergency landing of a rescue helicopter at Cooroy has demonstrated the critical need for night vision equipment aboard these aircraft, and has led for a call for them to be included in all emergency rescue aircraft.
Police are warning the public regarding a fraudulent email purporting to be from the Australian Taxation Office offering recipients a tax refund of $210.75.
Two Burrandowan racegoers appeared in Kingaroy Magistrates Court today after they fell foul of the law when they believed they were sober after having a night’s sleep at the bushtrack and enjoying breakfast.
Two men charged over shop hold-ups at Bribie Island and Nanango appeared in Murgon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday afternoon.
Nanango-born speedway rider Darcy Ward, 20, has been found not guilty by a British jury of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a 27-year-old local woman missing from Gympie since yesterday afternoon.
A 23-year-old Caboolture man and a 17-year-old youth from Caboolture South will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates’ Court tomorrow charged over two armed robberies of small businesses.
Nanango police have arrested two men suspected of holding up a Nanango store at knife-point this morning.
The Brooklands Rural Fire Brigade quickly extinguished a small grass fire on the Kingaroy-Cooyar Road near the Barkers Creek Bridge on Saturday morning.
Detectives from the Sunshine Coast’s Drug Enforcement Team have arrested 55 people and laid 230 charges after closing an 11-month operation dubbed “Juliet Tangent”.
A 26-year-old Wurtulla man has been airlifted to Nambour Hospital in a stable condition after he crashed his motocross bike near Cooyar this morning.
A young man who admitted showing off to a mate by doing “doughnuts” at the Stuart River rest area, off the Bunya Highway, was fined $500 in Kingaroy Magistrates’ Court today.
A 39-year-old former Kingaroy man – charged with four child sex charges – was committed to stand trial in the District Court when he appeared in the Kingaroy Magistrates’ Court today.
Soccer mums and dads have been working hard this week to repair damage to the Kingaroy Junior Soccer fields caused by car hoons on Friday night.
Political candidates – and their supporters – who deface or remove the roadside signs of their opponents could face criminal charges if caught.
Workplace Health and Safety investigators have been called to attend an incident at Durong where a man has died in an accident.
A 19-year-old man from Hidden Valley was taken by ambulance to Cherbourg Hospital for observation on Sunday afternoon after a single-vehicle accident on the Burnett Highway.
A truck driver was fined $2000 after pleading guilty in Kingaroy Magistrates’ Court today to driving an overloaded vehicle.
A male driver and his female passenger were lucky to escape serious injury on Tuesday night when their Nissan Navara ute ended up in a creek off Mill Flat Road, Nanango, about 7:00pm.
A Blackbutt man who pleaded guilty to a string of charges dating back to 1995 was sentenced to 21 months jail in Kingaroy Magistrates’ Court today.
