PHOTOS: First day of school for preppies of 2025
From the excitement of seeing your kindy friends to learning where the bag racks are, today was a day of firsts and big emotions for Prep students from all around the South Burnett.
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‘Horrific, disastrous’: Backlash against new solar farm proposal
A proposed 1200ha solar farm between Monto and Eidsvold has met with backlash from the local community, and follows an incident earlier this month where angry protesters tore down the fence around another nearby solar farm.
Ross Wessling announced South Burnett 2025 Citizen of the Year
More than 80 community members and organisations were nominated across 17 categories for the South Burnett Australia Day awards. Read our full list of award recipients:
North Burnett Australia Day award winners 2025
The winners of North Burnett’s Australia Day awards include volunteer extraordinaire Vivien Smyth, who has received the highest honour. Read our full list of award recipients, six local legends and their inspirational stories:
80mm in one hour, hail and ‘intense’ lightning in latest storm havoc
A supercell storm hit the South Burnett again on Thursday, with more reports of flash flooding, large trees down, intense lightning strikes and mass blackouts. And storm season is far from over. Latest photos, information:
Mayor can’t ‘turn water into wine’, but ratepayers wish she would try
The South Burnett’s brown water looks here to stay after the council decided $25 million was too much to expect ratepayers to pay to get it fixed, but some locals this week said the council should spend the money and fix the problem. VOTE IN OUR POLL
‘Panicked, shocked’: Community enraged over ‘cruel’ attacks
A state government official has called for public help in investigating reports of brumbies and kangaroos being shot with bow and arrow near Wondai, and warned the perpetrators they could face jail or be fined more than $160,000.
’A little frivolous’: Council to spend $14k for spot on Monopoly board
The Big Peanut will be featured among a range of Australian icons on a very Aussie edition of Monopoly, but it won’t be cheap.
Development will create 31 new house blocks in Kingaroy
A rural residential property on Bridget Carroll Road on the outskirts of town will be turned into a new neighbourhood.
Named: Man charged after woman, children involved in alleged hit and run
A 20-year-old man has fronted court charged with fleeing the scene of an accident at Gayndah this week, after a woman and two children were taken to hospital via ambulance.
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