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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

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.

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*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.

Mackay

‘Shredding noise’: How helicopter botched landing, broke rotor

A failed landing at a coal ship seriously damaged a helicopter off the coast of Mackay, with the rear rotor breaking off and flying away. Now, we finally know the cause.

Mackay

'Not sweet enough!' Wilmar workers cried at the beginning of their strike, almost three weeks later and the strike has deepend. Photo: Fergus Gregg

‘Another insulting offer’: Sugar strike escalates despite mediation

In a pre-emptive move, union organisers plan a second strike for the days before and after a bargaining session, but is a settlement likely?

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Emergency crews have responded to a reported single vehicle rollover at Balnagowan on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Picture: Fergus Gregg

Emergency crews rush to reported rollover northwest of Mackay

Emergency crews including police, firefighters and paramedics are responding to a single vehicle rollover on a rural road northwest of Mackay. LATEST

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‘Shot the vehicle and fled’: New details in pizza delivery gone wrong

On a routine pizza delivery in a suburban Queensland street, a young man had multiple shots fired at his vehicle. LATEST.

Mackay

‘I want to solve problems’: Kids get taste of real-world science

Students from Pioneer State High School were invited to the Unearthing STEM workshop, but were they able to unearth a future career? DETAILS, PHOTOS.

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