Almost two thirds of homeowners impacted by the 2022 floods don’t want to move. A shift in council building height limits will keep them safe from the muddy Mary River floodwaters but change the Gympie skyline.
The revelation of a controversial high voltage power line route needed to connect the planned multi-billion-dollar Borumba Dam pumped hydro plant has been pushed back.
Thousands of Queensland sportspeople are among victims of last year’s floods as their clubs are deemed uninsurable.
Gympie region residents fear the day a pedestrian will be hit in front of their home as hoons use the streets as a race track, whether it be day or night. See the list of hot spots
Gympie came away with a winner in the 2021 Queensland Salute to Excellence Awards, with James Nash teacher Donna Jenkin taking out Runner Up in the Teacher/Trainer category.
Maloufs pharmacy on the Southside is one of 20 chemists, medical clinics and hubs across the Gympie region to now offer the Covid vaccine to Gympie region residents.
Gympie Regional Council and its 500-strong workforce are about to head back to the negotiating table, with the agreement that secured staff a $35 per week pay rise per year about to expire.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and others were on hand at headspace Gympie to welcome the announcement of more funds on Tuesday afternoon, with Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien calling mental health care “critically important”.
Gympie’s ‘rally for freedom’ may have been peaceful but the reaction on Facebook was anything but, with many people from each side firing hyperbolic insults at each other instead of debating whether the protest was justified or counter-productive.
Smoke continued to hang over the Gympie CBD as of Tuesday afternoon, prompting the QFES to rule out any active bushfires or structure fires in the region.
Gympie council will get $48k to help the human residents of Commissioner’s Gully live with their 32,000 smelly neighbours, and to try to lure the colony back to Widgee Crossing.
The grant will fund studies into the rapidly developing and crucial AgTech area which will play an increasingly important role in the agriculture industry.
The operation will last until Friday and forms part of the annual hazard reduction and conservation management program for parks and forests “to help protect life and property in the event of a wildfire”.
The owners of the hugely popular centre just south of Gympie have revealed why they are bulldozing the petrol pumps and shops on the land they bought as part of a nationwide $10.85m deal in 2020.
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