Stage 1 of the long-discussed South Burnett Performing Arts Centre in Kingaroy has hosted its first public function to great acclaim … which means fund-raising for the all-important Stage 2 of the project can now begin in earnest!
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 simple idea hatched in America to thank war veterans – and men and women currently serving their country – with a free car wash has spread from the United States to Kingaroy.
Manly rugby league star Matt Ballin was the guest speaker at the Kingaroy State High School Sports Night. Matt, who has played more than 140 NRL games, was part of the 2008 and 2011 Premiership-winning Sea Eagles’ teams and has represented Queensland in State of Origin.
About 40 soccer players turned up at Kingaroy’s Tom Alford Oval to take part in the first round of the new Summer 7s soccer competition.
KSHS’s end-of-school concert on Friday night will feature 200 years of popular music, from 1812-1912
A reward is being offered for the safe return of a camera that went missing at Kingaroy Airport on Saturday afternoon.
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman and his Cabinet MPs will be paying a whistlestop visit to the South Burnett next week.
The Kingaroy RSPCA Shelter will be holding a fun fund-raising bowling night from 5:30pm on Friday, November 9, at the Kingaroy Tenpin and Putt Putt Centre on the Bunya Highway.
The 2nd annual Motors In Motion festival in Kingaroy on Saturday was engineered for excitement … with motors in motion everywhere you could look at Kingaroy Airport.
The Commonwealth Bank in Kingaroy became a sea of pink in the fight against cancer.
Recently, art enthusiast and curator of the Wondai Regional Art Gallery Mrs Elaine Madill visited Kingaroy State School to judge the primary school art competition.
The visiting Youth With A Mission team hosted a Polynesian festival of singing and dancing in Kingaroy
Kingaroy Speedway is going to rock (and roll) on Saturday night with Round 2 of the Wild Desert Allstars series of Modified Productions and some special roly poly cars.
Nimué Gallery in King Street, Kingaroy, will be hosting an exhibition of works by members of the local “Jumping Ants Art Group” from next Saturday (November 3).
Kingaroy Rotary club is so pleased with the charity jewellery auction it hosted last weekend, it’s planning to do it all over again next year.
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.
Bulldozers were called in this morning to put in breaks to control a fire burning in a State Forest near Wondai.
A team of young Christian runners crossing Australia on a 3000km “baton relay” have stopped off in Kingaroy to interact with the local community.
