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Estelle Sanchez is a reporter for the Whitsunday Times, covering the Whitsunday region of North Queensland and is based in Airlie Beach. Estelle joined the team in July 2023, moving to the Whitsundays from Brisbane. She graduated from the Queensland University of Technology in 2023 with a Bachelor of Communications majoring in Journalism. As someone who has moved to a new country herself, Estelle is passionate about people and travel and has a keen interest in migration and all it entails.

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Police & Courts

Sad child, domestic violence, sex abuse concept. Generic picture from istock. No identification.

Child sex offender had two victims before his step granddaughter

A Whitsunday truckie found guilty of sexually abusing his step granddaughter has been offending against children for eight years. She was his third victim. LATEST.

Whitsunday

Robbie Morgan, Marina Morgan - A 29-year-old bride has died on her honeymoon after falling from a golf buggy on Hamilton Island.

Why case over newlywed death on Hamilton Island is pushed back

The case against a husband charged over the death of his new bride during their honeymoon on Hamilton Island has once again been heard in court. LATEST.

Whitsunday

$2.4bn blowout slammed as ‘hypocritical’ as fatal rail crossing fix denied

A local MP says regional Queensland is ‘obviously not a priority’ after a plea to fix a rail crossing where a man died in a horrific crash was rejected by the State Government.

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Emergency crews have attended a serious two vehicle crash along Strathdickie Rd in the Whitsundays on Sunday, August 20, 2023. Picture: Estelle Sanchez

Whitsundays man dead, woman seriously injured in ‘tragic’ crash

The survivor of a horror two vehicle crash in the Whitsundays, that killed a 67-year-old man, is in a “serious but stable’ condition as police urge witnesses to come forward. LATEST.

Mackay

Fire in East Mackay destroys two-storey house, no injuries

Fire crews were called to an East Mackay house where it took them more than half an hour to get the flames under control.

Mackay

‘Cultural change’: New board to ‘reform’ problem plagued hospital

A new board has been appointed at Mackay after the previous was sacked by the then health minister following a damning report.

Police & Courts

Would you like a fright with that? Tequila tool rages at Macca’s, ED

A beer-stealing removalist who lost it in a McDonald’s kitchen before telling hospital nurses and police to ‘stay the f–k away’ has had to pay for his wild night out in the Whitsundays.

Police & Courts

Hamo Island party girl’s boozy buggy crash a ‘recipe for disaster’

An 18-year-old Sunshine Coast woman who drove a Hamilton Island buggy overloaded with friends at four times the speed limit while almost four times the blood alcohol limit has been sentenced.

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21yo faces court after life-threatening assault in Airlie Beach

A Whitsundays man has fronted court after he was charged with assaulting a Cairns man at a licensed premises in Airlie Beach and left him fighting for life.

Mackay

$100, a dream and an entrepreneur success story all before the age of 10

Brothers Ocean and Jack have kicked off a collectable card dream business they reckon can ‘beat the Pokemon’ and all it took was a little incentive and big imagination. FIND OUT HOW

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