As the world prepares to celebrate International Women’s Day, we acknowledge 30 of the many successful, generous, nurturing, inspirational and brave women living and working in the Gympie region.
From Bundaberg to Gympie and out to the Burnett, they’re the smiling official faces of the regional shows that play such an important role on our social calendar. Meet the Showgirl entrants and rural ambassadors of the Wide Bay and Burnett for 2023.
From meth mums to family drug rings, dog breeders and corporate workers, there have been 5000+ drug offences across the Wide Bay Burnett in the past two years, with dealers supplying and trafficking to hundreds of regular customers. Here are the ones who got caught:
Gympie’s major shopping centre has been evacuated and a number of people assessed and taken to hospital.
Residents are being urged to follow mask rules as another 589 Covid cases were recorded across Queensland in the past 24 hours.
Southside residents are battling for better water pressure, with one calling the service ‘disappointing’ given the price of their council water bills.
The search for a missing 15-year-old Gympie girl has ended with good news.
One of Gympie Regional Council’s highly touted, highly paid new department directors has resigned from the role after 10 months.
The rejection of a large scale Spotlight Group development tipped to create 1000 jobs may have opened the door for a similar development in Gympie, with the company and local leaders keen to explore options here.
The Gympie Muster artist line-up for 2022 has been revealed with anticipation building for the event’s 40th anniversary.
The CEO of the company trying to resurrect Gympie’s historic gold mine said fears a proposed repeal of a blanket ban on mining exploration across the city would leave residents exposed to coal mining were baseless.
At least one lane of the Bruce Highway has been cut following a single vehicle rollover north of Gympie.
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