How to make the most of your new home for Burnett region news
Our new site also offers our valued subscribers a far better app experience as well as new local daily newsletters, giving you the very best of local and Queensland news.
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Welcome to your new home for local news in the Burnett.
Bringing the South Burnett Times and the Central & North Burnett Times under the umbrella of The Courier Mail will provide you with a faster, cleaner, world-class news experience.
You have much easier access to subscriber rewards, interactive sports features like SuperCoach, True Crime Australia podcasts and more puzzles to choose from.
The new site also offers our valued subscribers a far better app experience as well as new local daily newsletters, giving you the very best of our local coverage as well as stories you need to know from across Queensland.
While you’ve always had access to plenty of network stories, the depth of content available will be much more extensive across business, entertainment, lifestyle, including great money, health and coronavirus advice.
It really will be all the news you need, in one place, with just one login.
NEWS FROM LOCALS ON THE GROUND
We know local news matters to you and that’s why it’s at the heart of what we do every day. If you just want the best of news from the Burnett you will still find it every day at www.southburnetttimes.com.au. Bookmark that and you will come to this local page on The Courier Mail.
We may have a new home but our passion for news that matters to you won’t change.
We’re locals who live here. Our team works hard to bring you the news because we love this region.
And as locals, we’re committed to helping you make the very most of your new digital experience.
A FASTER SITE BASED ON READER FEEDBACK
This site is the culmination of many months and hundreds of hours of interviews with readers across Australia.
It’s been built to load much faster with cleaner article page layouts to make reading the news more enjoyable, with a lot less clutter.
Our South Burnett Times index page will provide the latest local coverage of all the things that matter: breaking news, police, courts, crime, business, development, council and community information.
You will also be able to easily find news from neighbouring regions, while Must See will include some of the top stories in Australia, updated throughout the day.
The page also features news from across Queensland, Australia and the world.
You will also find key network stories in entertainment, lifestyle, sport, business and some of the top opinion writers in the country – all on the one page.
The digital edition of the South Burnett Times will continue to be found every day next to the police and courts section of our site.
The South Burnett Times has moved to a faster website, with simpler navigation, quicker coverage of breaking news across Queensland, as well as easy access to Rewards and SuperCoach.
The South Burnett Times has moved to a faster website, with simpler navigation, quicker coverage of breaking news across Queensland, as well as easy access to Rewards and SuperCoach.
If you click on that you will get a more newspaper-like ‘flipbook’ experience, taking you through the top local stories, as well as Queensland and national stories, feature pages, puzzles, the TV page and shares.
You can book that page here https://dpe.southburnetttimes.com.au/. You can also find The Courier Mail digital edition top left of the blue navigation bar on the top of this page. Two for the price of one!
Of course, and just to reiterate, you will get the latest information on this site, so always worth bookmarking this www.southburnetttimes.com.au
NAVIGATING AROUND THE PAGE
As you click around local stories you will see at the very top of the story, above the headline, there’s News>QLD>South Burnett. If you click on South Burnett that will always take you back to the South Burnett Times page.
Clicking on the South Burnett Times logo, next to the author of the article, will also take you back to our local news landing page.
You can also see a full stream of our latest local news where it says more local news.
HAVE YOUR SAY ON OUR STORIES
As readers, we’re really keen to hear what you have to say about local issues, so we encourage you to share your comments on stories.
To do that you just need to be logged in as a subscriber, open the story and click on ‘join the conversation’ at the end of the article to add your comment.
DO I NEED A SUBSCRIPTION TO READ EVERYTHING?
While some of our stories from across the network are free, most of local coverage will be for subscribers only. Subscriptions help us to fund our journalism, keeping locals in a job.
Your local subscription not only gives you access to the South Burnett Times and full The Courier-Mail but also other News sites including the Herald-Sun, Daily Telegraph, and regional titles from the crocodile-loving NT News to the award-winning Hobart Mercury.
The Courier Mail also has a great app which you can download from App Store on IOS devices or in Google Play on Android devices.
Remember, if you get lost, you’ll always find your local news at www.southburnetttimes.com.au.
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- Receive unlimited access to The Courier Mail and the News+ network on your desktop, tablet and mobile including trusted community news from your local journalists.
- Access a world of exciting offers, discounts and giveaways every month with +Rewards. For specific questions about +Rewards please click here.
- Choose from a selection of newsletters curated by our editors and journalists and sent straight to your inbox.
- Member-only access to KFC SuperCoach Plus. To read how to play please click here.
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How do I access today's paper on your website?
The digital replica of today's newspaper, Today's Paper, plus access to back issues, including liftouts, is available for our Subscribers. Join here.
1. You need to be logged in to read Today's Paper. Locate the 'Login' button on the top right-hand corner of your screen
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3. Click the 'Read Now' button on the top left-hand side of the page.
4. Click on the newspaper front cover to begin reading
If you need further assistance, please contact us on 1300 696 397.
Do you have an app?
As part of the changes we will be discontinuing our local news apps which have become rather outdated. Instead, we would encourage you to download The Courier Mail app which will give you a much faster, and more comprehensive coverage of news from across New South Wales and around the nation and world.
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