While new mayor Helen Blackburn has said she is looking forward to ‘working collaboratively’ with her team of councillors, three divisions remain in play with veteran Greg Barnes on track to lose to challenger Larine Statham-Blair.
A teenage girl has been attacked by a shark at a beach near Bundaberg, suffering puncture wounds to the abdomen and buttocks.
Paramedics are on the scene and treating a teen after she was bitten while swimming at a popular beach at Bargara near Bundaberg on Friday afternoon.
Fox Resources says it was not aware a Bundaberg farmer appointed to its community advisory group owned more than 100ha of land within MDL 3040.
Some council candidates said they were unaware of My Place Bundaberg’s links to the anti-vax and sovereign citizenship movement when questioned about their membership.
Coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef has reached the waters off Bundaberg and the Fraser Coast, with experts warning the spread is like an underwater bushfire.
With youth crime leading directly to multiple deaths in parts of the region, and breaking car theft records in others, Operation Whiskey Unison targeted local criminal hotspots in a sweeping campaign.
Electrical Trades Union members throughout the region downed tools and protested in support of improved entitlements including a pay rise and parental leave.
Bundaberg council has launched legal action against a former maverick mayoral candidate over his storage container home and providing accommodation in the midst of a housing crisis.
Opening the books on the $75m Bundaberg Aquatic Centre project and reviewing Bundaberg Now are on the agenda for mayor hopeful Helen Blackburn, while Jack Dempsey says “confidence and positivity” are key.
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