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Interest rates cut a boost for home buyers

The first interest rate cut in more than four years will serve as a boost for home buyers. As most economists expected, the Reserve Bank...

11th hour reprieve for gantry following injuction

There's been a reprieve for the gantry at the Gympie Gold Mining and Historical Museum, which anonymous sources reported was slated for demolition this...

‘Pay rise’ for recyclers

The state government has launched a parliamentary inquiry aimed at boosting drink container recycling rates and increasing the 10c a bottle payment to refund...

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Sport

Local kids to learn from Rugby’s best

Gympie’s rugby community is set for an unforgettable experience as the Classic Wallabies and Wallaroos roll into town to host an exclusive skills clinic...

Athletes reach new peaks

Three talented Gympie athletes have been selected to compete at the 2025 Australian Athletic Championships to be held in Canada. The Gympie Athletics Club congratulated...

14 teams tackle trophy day

Last Tuesday the Gympie Bowls Club hosted 14 teams and it was a good morning of competition with the Tin Can Bay team winning...

Donna’s day at golf

On Wednesday, 12 February, Gympie Golf Club Ladies played a Single Stableford competition. Showing us how the game of golf should be played, was the...

Chopper drops in on nippers training

Last Sunday, the nippers at the Rainbow Beach Surf Life Saving Club and all the beachgoers that morning were treated to a mock rescue...

Hot cricket action

The cricket action continues to power on in Gympie with the One Mile Ovals again coming alive last Saturday for the local competition. There to...

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Entertainment

ABC journo guest speaker for IWD breakfast

President Judy Dwyer and members of the Gympie Quota Club are excited to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) Breakfast for 2025 on Thursday 6...

Intricate and eerie

Dr Janet Lee's first solo exhibition will be making it's way to the Gympie Regional Gallery, presenting her works influenced by Georgian and Victorian...

Tennessee Rose’s sweet smelling country concerts

Sharon Rodwell, also known as Tennessee Rose, loves her country music, and she loves performing - so much so that she has been putting...

New art Gallery for Kin Kin

According to her teachers, all Robyn Glade-Wright wanted to do, since she was a child, was paint. And now, Robyn is getting to realise a...

Exciting events coming up at Art Post

In conjunction with the exhibition Drawn Together showing at Art Post from Tuesday 11 February until Saturday 1 March, professional artist Alex Ashton is...

Alice Benfer wins over Tamworth audiences

Queensland modern bush balladeer, Alice Benfer, left her mark at this year’s Tamworth Country Music Festival, bringing home a swag of awards. At the 2025...

Gympie Flows Forward

Our campaign’s end

Over the past 12 months, we’ve brought you stories about the ongoing battle to right our region after the devastating floods of 2022. There is...

Gympie connection to new SES head

The day after the worst flood to hit Gympie in living memory lifted the level of the Mary River at the weir to 22.96m...

Mary River clean-up

Sediment laden run-off from the Mary River has been identified as a leading cause of poor water quality in the inner Great Barrier Reef,...

Big Mary eco-spend

Gympie region and its near neighbours are big winners in a major federal and state funded flood recovery bonanza for "significant environmental and land...

Mary workers helping reef

A consortium of environment groups is working to improve Mary River runoff quality, in a bid to save notr just the river itself, but...

Don’t forget flash flooding

The Gympie Region has recently been on flood watch with the consistent wet weather and three uninjured patients were rescued from flood water on...

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Tay Tay becomes top inspo for pet names

Music superstar Taylor Swift has now entered the Pet’s Name Hall of Fame and has been joined by other music royalty including Beyonce, Madonna,...

Remembering their service

The community gathered in remembrance at Memorial Park in Gympie for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice at the National Servicemen's Commemorative Ceremony on...

Gympie students find frogs

It’s mid-February and there has been a lot of frog action during the annual citizen science event, Find a Frog in February. The call...

Health care boost

People in Gympie's Wide Bay Burnett region are getting better publicly funded health care, Queensland Labor senator Murray Watt said this week. Sen Watt, who...

News snippets from across the region for the past week

Dingo bite A patient was given first-aid for minor wounds to their back following a dingo bite on K'Gari (formerly Fraser Island) reported at 12.19pm...

Brakes still on (slightly)

Interest rates cuts will be a good news-bad news story for Gympie, but the difference will not be huge, according to Gympie financial planner...