Public meetings, petitions and a sense of panic and despair is growing in the North Burnett as the call is made for a vote of no confidence in the council, and state and federal politicians weigh in on the 25 per cent rate rise. Vote in our poll:
Two people were hospitalised following a crash in a residential street of Nanango on Friday afternoon.
A 38-year-old man with multiple sexual assault convictions, including raping a teenager, has been sentenced for abusing his own young child.
The likely closure of the Kingaroy peanut processing facility has left a community reeling with the son of Qld’s most famous peanut farmer, John Bjelke-Petersen, saying his father would be “appalled”.
A man is fighting for his life after the ute he was driving rolled over on a major highway in the South Burnett. SEE THE VIDEO
The wheels of justice ground inexorably on in the 750-day case of Burnett businessman Joe Prendergast, who has entered no plea to multiple charges including 11 counts of rape.
A divided and embattled North Burnett council has passed its controversial budget and 25 per cent rate rise after impassioned speeches from multiple councillors, and a vote that went down to the wire.
Ambulance officers rushed to the scene of an e-scooter accident in Kingaroy on the weekend, where an older man had fallen badly and injured himself.
A woman and her child have been hospitalised after a crash on a busy road in the North Burnett on Friday afternoon.
A 15-year-old boy has felt the long arm of the law following a terrifying crime spree during which homes were broken into, at least one occupant was threatened with a knife, and a woman was robbed and bashed.
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