Looking to meet demands for higher education over the range the state government has promised millions in funding for new Country Universities Centres in two Isaac communities. DETAILS.
They’ve been picked by their peers and teachers for their leadership qualities, already inspiring the next generation of kids to do their best. See what they want to be when they grow up.
Police and firefighters responded to a car fire near a canefield in Habana, finding a shell. DETAILS, PHOTOS.
Locals have described the Bruce Highway stretch where a woman died and another was critically injured as ‘scary’ with calls for greater separation between traffic on the stretch. LATEST
After a policing career which has taken him from Belfast to Mackay, Sergeant Nigel Dalton is now set to take a small team of swimmers to Darwin to compete in the National Masters Swimming Championships. DETAILS.
Following the chaotic pandemic era where distance and home education became a necessity, homeschooling enrolments have almost tripled. But what’s driving that increase? And why are homeschool parents now feeling under threat. SPECIAL REPORT
Fellow workmates witnessed the horror 20 metre fall after wind monitoring equipment suddenly collapsed while it was being constructed at the site of a proposed wind farm. DETAILS
For many Anzac Day is a ‘powerful reminder of the importance or unity and solidarity’. Lest We Forget. ROLLING COVERAGE
While for some the cost-of-living crisis might mean tightening our belts, for Mackay’s most vulnerable it is the difference between a warm bed and sleeping on the street. PHOTOS, DETAILS
A Whitsunday resident has shared his most impactful memory of service in the Vietnam war — trying to negotiate peace. FOLLOW OUR ROLLING COVERAGE
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