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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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Whitsunday

Paddleboard business on market after bone-breaking bike crash

The boss of a popular paddleboarding business is selling up after an off-road racing crash that left him needing two hip replacements. DETAILS.

Mackay

Why Vietnam vet is determined not to let history repeat

When this Mackay war veteran returned home, he was faced with a country GP who didn’t “have a clue” and left to battle his demons alone. Now, he’s joining the fight to make proposed national reforms stick.

Mackay

Bus fire threatens Mackay home

A bus has burst into flames threatening a home with emergency services rushing to the scene. DETAILS

UPDATEDMackay

A driver has suffered life threatening injuries after a truck rolled pinning him underneath at 1.20pm on Gunyarra Rd at Andromache. Photo: Krystal Hender

Driver dies in cane truck rollover

A man has died after being pinned under a vehicle in the second fatal cane truck incident in the Mackay Whitsunday region in the past month. DETAILS, PHOTOS

Mackay

The Finch Falls Development is set to get underway with council giving final approvals.

REVEALED: Luxury ‘glamping’ lodges for Pioneer Valley

New luxury nature-based accommodation is coming to the Pioneer Valley with council approvinga glamp ground on the condition it be open by late 2026. SEE THE PLANS

Police & Courts

Jumping saltwater or estuarine crocodile, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia

‘Experimenting at 59’: Fisherman busted with revolver, meth, dope

A Queensland angler, travelling up and down the coast selling his fish, said he was experimenting with drugs and had a revolver to protect him from crocs and sharks after police busted him at a Bruce Highway rest stop area.

Mackay

‘We went in blind’: Bogie triple murder first responders honoured

Three first responders hoped for the best when they arrived on scene to a triple murder at Bogie, blind to what was ahead knowing backup was hours away. Read their story

UpdatedMackay

Detectives have released CCTV in an ongoing appeal for information following the suspicious death of a 67-year-old Mackay man earlier this month. John Patrick Hackett was located at his unit on Gold Street after a welfare check.

Police reveal new details, CCTV footage in homicide probe

Police believe a Queensland man at the centre of a homicide probe suffered facial injuries in an attack on Melbourne Cup Day, two days prior to the last time he was confirmed alive. VIDEOS

Mackay

Generic ambulance, QAS, Queensland Ambulance Service, emergency services, Thursday, August 29, 2024. Picture: Kevin Farmer

Two seriously injured in Bruce Highway crashes

Three people have been injured in one of two crashes on the Bruce Highway near Mackay, the second involving a truck and another vehicle.

Mackay

Red Dog Brewery are moving into their new home in the Northern Beaches promising more food and most importantly more beer.

More food, more beer: Inside new and improved brewery

A staple of the Mackay beer scene has up and moved from its CBD home to a bigger and better spot in the Northern Beaches promising more food and teasing at new beer.

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