The nation’s peak motoring body Australia Automobile Association has joined the chorus calling for better rural roads with new figures showing the huge divide between driver fatalities on regional and city roads.
A surge in stings from one of the world’s most lethal creatures has prompted fears that deadly jellyfish invisible to the naked eye are moving south.
A Queensland council supervisor demoted and then sacked for misconduct has challenged his sacking for operating a roadside slasher at high speeds in the state’s industrial commission.
Farmers up and down the east coast of Australia are under siege from giant rat’s tail, a weed that has proliferated like never before after flooding, wet weather, global politics and the pandemic.
Updated list of Covid-19 numbers for the Fraser Coast. FULL LIST OF CASES.
Emergency crews have been called to a rural property in the Gympie region’s northern reaches following reports a motorhome had caught fire.
Without warning families, farmers and business owners across the Wide Bay woke to a flooding emergency that dwarfed Cyclone Yasi but deadly devastation and despair soon gave way to a show of community strength and unity that bridged Covid division and will be remembered above all. VIDEOS, PHOTOS
More choice is on the menu for Imbil and Mary Valley residents with plans to build a new supermarket unveiled as part of the second retail development proposed for the town in the past month.
Dramatic footage where a woman can be seen yelling at police arresting her for her repeated refusal to show her vaccination status has been revealed as police and the business owner speak out. UPDATED VIDEO, PHOTOS.
A country community mourning the loss of a young produce worker, swept away during the Wide Bay flooding emergency, will hold a memorial in his honour.
Communities across the flood-ravaged Wide Bay are in phone reception hell with one town completely blacked out since Saturday and others near Gympie and the Fraser Coast frustrated by limited connection and delays.
Community leaders have paid tribute to long-time club and show stalwart Bill Bishop, who joined Rotary in 1956 and will be ‘tremendously missed’ after his death at age 95.
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