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.
Gympie’s leaky water system has continued to struggle with a burst water main cutting access to more than 160 Mary Valley properties without water Tuesday morning.
Land clearing near Gympie to make way for new housing estates has been taking place in what local residents believe is koala habitat, and is driving tensions and frustrations over how to balance environment protection with progress.
Ninety home owners across the Gympie region have been given three months to pay their large, outstanding rates bills or have their properties sold from underneath them.
Rescue workers rushed to a Cooloola Cove home in response to reports or four dead magpies, “only to find the magpies were still alive but obviously poisoned by an unknown source and unable to stand at all”.
We asked, and you delivered. It’s time to announce the winner of Gympie’s best hairdresser, voted by you.
The Gympie region is feeling the sting of lockdown, with events cancelled across the region and a second day of lengthy wait times for testing as the state records its highest number of cases since lockdown began.
They’re cheeky and all undoubtedly adorable, but we need your help to decide which child will take out the unofficial title of the cutest in the Gympie region. Vote in the poll now:
The wrath of the recent Covid lockdown is being felt by the Mary Valley Show Society as they regretfully pull the plug on the August show and rodeo.
Gympie’s aged care services are getting a boost with 13 new beds to become available in the region.
Paramedics have been called to the region’s western reaches following a single vehicle crash that blocked one lane of a key highway.
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