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Fergus Gregg is a reporter for the Mackay Daily Mercury, covering the Mackay and Whitsunday region of North Queensland. Fergus joined the team in December 2023, moving to Mackay from Brisbane. He graduated from the Queensland University of Technology in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Film, TV and New Media, with a minor in creative writing. He travelled to Japan soon after where he worked as a teacher and travel writer. Fergus is passionate about politics, food and marine biology.

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Mackay

Emergency Services, Ambulance, QAS, Photo Bev Lacey / The Chronicle

Man injured, highway closed after rollover

The Bruce Highway has been closed after a rollover in North Queensland.

Mackay

Whitsunday Anglican School new STEAM centre building has won the Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Building of the Year award. Photo: Scott Burrows

‘Visionary, creative” NQ $12m schoolhouse wins top gong

A North Queensland private school has won the Building of the Year award for a newly constructed school building that the judges called “visionary”. TAKE A LOOK AT THE PHOTOS.

Central Queensland

$1.5M owed: Debt collector has QLD uni students in their sight

Central Queensland University has begun the process to engage a debt collection agency to collect money owed by students and other debtors. READ THE DETAILS.

Mackay

Watch the star barista giving Australia what they ‘need’

Green tea and sweet teeth are king at the YAW bakehouse with a new trend-following menu launched by a matcha barista star. Take a look at what they’ve cooked up. SEE VIDEO

Mackay

Nurse with eye for beauty captures majesty of southern lights

A Queensland mental health nurse who says photography is her ‘sanity’ away from a stressful job has captured the majesty of the southern lights while driving down dirt roads. SEE HER AMAZING PHOTOS

Mackay

From the Woodman's Axe comes The Alley on Wood Street. Photo: Fergus Gregg

FIRST LOOK: Inside CBD’s newest cafe, The Alley

From The Woodman’s Axe to Wood St, see Mackay’s latest city heart cafe and meet the team working behind the scenes to run it. PHOTOS

Central Queensland

18 year old Kye Camilleri is off to the races, representing his family in the Finke Desert Race out near Alice springs as the leader of Team Red Nut.

’Hell of a lot of fun’: Meet the teen Red Nut racer who wants to be a champ

Before he had his learners permit, he was racing against adults and winning. Meet Kye Camilleri, the teen desert racing dynamo who’s hoping to bring back gold from Finke.

Mackay

A delivery driver from the Mount Pleasant Pizza Hut was allegedly shot at by a man with a rifle on May 15. Photo: Fergus Gregg

‘Saved him from the worst’: New details in alleged shooting

New details can be revealed about a shooting incident involving a pizza delivery driver, where police allege a man emerged from the dark, pointed a rifle toward the teen driver and fired.

UPDATEDMackay

*Generic Queensland police crash investigation*Motor vehicle crash, Hodgkinson Street, Chermside, Wednesday, December 20, 2023 - Picture: Richard Walker

Driver ejected, teens seriously injured in horror CQ rollover

A teenage boy and a teenage girl have been airlifted from a Central Queensland hospital after a horror rollover left two people trapped and the driver ejected. UPDATED

Property

Crocs, cyclones, three-legged cow: ‘Ritz of the North’ sells for $1m

A colourful 142-year-old Queensland pub which once boasted the “finest private zoo in the Commonwealth” has sold as the hotel’s “wonderfully weird” history is revealed in this special feature. VIDEO.

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