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Jorina Maureschat is a reporter for the Sunshine Coast region focusing on court, business and property. Jorina completed her cadet year with The Gympie Times in 2022. The masthead won a regional campaign award for the team’s Save Our Sport campaign advocating for sports communities affected by the 2022 floods.

Jorina Maureschat

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Vote now for Gympie’s cutest puppy of 2023

More than 70 adorable fur babies have been nominated by their doting “parents” to be named Gympie’s cutest puppy of 2023, but there can only be one. Vote in our poll:

Gympie

‘Nothing I could do’: Two killed, cab crushed in horror truck rollover

A Maryborough woman and Gympie man have been confirmed dead after a tragic accident involving a power pole at Curra.

Gympie

Growing property business expands into the Fraser Coast

The face behind a growing Gympie real estate empire has shared his insight on the property market as he opens a new branch in Maryborough.

Police & Courts

Troy Benjamin Powell appeared in Gympie Magistrates Court on January 19, 2023

Drunk farmhand blames green ant for flipping mate’s car

A Gympie region farmhand who crashed near Cairns while more than four times over the limit told police he’d lost control when he was bitten by a green ant.

Gympie

Car crash on the Bruce Hwy near Bunnings

A lane has closed on the Bruce Hwy following an accident involving at least two cars on the southern outskirts of Gympie.

Gympie

Man taken to hospital after near drowning at Hervey Bay

Ambulance crews rushed a man to hospital after he was pulled out of the water in Hervey Bay on Thursday night.

Police & Courts

Sherrilyn Page appeared in Gympie Magistrates Court on September 28, 2022.

Aspiring traffic controller in wild inebriated night on the road

A would-be traffic controller stared at a police prosecutor as the details of her wild night of driving while over the limit and with meth in her system were revealed to the court.

Gympie

Sunshine Coast residents are being urged to participate in the first Sunshine Coast Kokoda Challenge, encouraging hikers to walk in the footsteps of Australian Diggers during World War II.

Kenilworth to host 2023 Kokoda Challenge

Thousands of participants are expected to converge on the Imbil State Forest on Anzac Day weekend to join in the event that honours the legacy of Australian Diggers who fought in the Kokoda Campaign in the Second World War.

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Glenwood's Michael Boucher (inset) was among the first on scene at a serious Bruce Hwy crash at Curra.

‘I thought she was dead’: Hero pulls child from wrecked car, helps trapped woman

A Queensland father of six has helped pull a young child from a wrecked car after a serious crash on the Bruce Highway, before returning to help a woman who lay trapped and “unresponsive”. WATCH HIM TELL THE STORY

South Burnett

Two vehicles collided between Webbs Road and the Bunya Highway, Memerambi.

Three hurt, man trapped in rollover on Bunya Hwy

Fire crews had to remove the roof of a car after a man was trapped and seriously injured in a car rollover, with two more patients injured in the crash.

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