Lifestyle changes brought on by Covid have pushed many farmers to explore new ways of getting the most from their land. Here are 10 farms within a few hours drive of Brisbane that are pulling in the money from their fabulous side hustles:
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.
Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien this week announced there would be changed traffic conditions at Curra, Woondum and Veteran as part of the ongoing Section D Cooroy to Curra project, which is due for completion in mid-2024.
A hazard reduction burn on Sunday August 15 is expected to create smoke for parts of Gympie. Details here:
Police were alerted to a single-vehicle crash on the Cooloola Coast at 6:30am.
Ghostly stories swirl around many so-called haunted buildings in the Gympie region – some will make the hairs on your arms stand up, and others are nothing less than tragic. This is the untold history of the region.
New plans have been lodged to split two properties west of the Mary River into more than two dozen blocks of land.
The episode will go to air in the wake of Deputy State Coroner Jane Bentley’s determination in June that Kirra’s de facto partner Paul McDonald caused the injuries that killed her – finding he beat and choked her and then waited hours to call an ambulance.
Health authorities this week announced it expects 20,000 more doses to be administered between the temporary hub at the Gympie Civic Centre and the Gympie Hospital before the former’s closure, but there remained “plenty of appointments available”.
After losing his father at just 40 years of age, Gympie principal James Watt used to joke uncomfortably with his wife that she would only have him until he was the same age. When he turned 39 in hospital after going through life-saving surgery, Mr Watt was reeling from his own cancer battle.
The past two months have brought unprecedented loss to the Gympie region through a series of tragic mishaps and accidents that have rocked the entire area.
Dozens of heavily pregnant grey nurse sharks are congregating off Double Island Point before their departure down south to give birth. WATCH VIDEO HERE
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