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Young riders eye pathways forward

Endurance horse riding encourages participation across all ages and all abilities. The Stirling’s Crossing Endurance Centre annual education weekend highlighted this, with young riders coming...

Ombudsman call on Gympie airport row

The Queensland Ombudsman has been asked to intervene in a long-running row over Gympie Regional Council's actions in shutting down aircraft manufacturer Rollo McKinley...

Jared Sippels’ record-breaking knock

Gympie Gold XI's Jared Sippel had a record-breaking knock on Saturday, 24 January, against Tewantin Noosa, scoring a massive 224 runs. The first record he...

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Sport

Kids encouraged to Play On for Round Two

Gympie kids are being encouraged to be active with Round 2 of the Play On! Sports Vouchers program opening on Thursday, 29 January. ...

Sizzling stableford action

It was another hot and humid day on Wednesday, 21 January, when Gympie Golf Club Ladies played a Single Stableford competition. In the winner’s...

Young stars light up Gladstone

Over 100 competitors, representing all of Australia’s states and territories, descended on Gladstone's Yaralla Sports Club for the 34th Australian Junior Eight Ball Championships...

Riders hit the track

Cooloola BMX are back in action with riders joining in their holiday gate session last week on Wednesday, 21 January. For riders, it was time...

Gympie talent on cue

Gympie’s young cue sports talent was on display at the 34th Annual Australian Eight Ball Junior National Championships, held at Gladstone’s Yaralla Sports Club...

Hashies fly the flag on Oz Day

It could not have been a more Aussie setting for the Gympie Hash House Harriers' Australia Day run on Monday, when they ran and...

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Exhibitors wanted

Want to exhibit at Art Post, the newest, unique contemporary art space in Gympie? Expressions of interest are now open for artists to exhibit work...

Elke Louie reveals new single

Gympie indie folk singer-songwriter Elke Louie has revealed her sophomore single Sandman is set for release on January 30, celebrating with a launch show...

Concert on this weekend

The Gympie Country Music Club will be holding their first concert for 2026 on Saturday, the 31 of January at the Senior Citizens Centre...

Top guest speaker to chair Emerging Artists workshop

In the run-up to the Pomona Railway Station Gallery’s 25th Anniversary and Local Emerging Art Prize, the gallery is hosting an Emerging Artist workshop...

Art Post revisits Le Salon

Next week, Art Post contemporary gallery will again be transformed into a ‘Salon’ or French living room with artwork from over twenty local artists,...

Banjo’s back for 125th anniversary, sort of

Gympie’s rich cultural history will come alive this February as one of Australia’s most celebrated literary figures is honoured 125 years after his visit...

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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’Action too slow, laws too fast’

The Coalition split was “dramatic and sad,“ Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien said last week, after he and other Nationals voted against hate speech,...

$2M flows into Mary River projects

Critical habitat for threatened species in the Mary River has received a major boost, with more than $2 million in joint State and Federal...

Craft, cake and celebration as Women’s Shed turns two

This weekend is set to be a big celebration for the ladies at the Gympie Women's Shed, as the organisation marks its 2nd Birthday. An...

Amateur Anglers put on big prizes for local fishers

The Rainbow Beach Amateur Anglers have an action-packed competition year planned for 2026. First up is the chance to win $1000 cash with their Rainbow...

Dingo social media

Indefinite leave Before we left the island on Thursday I did message the father in Canada of Piper James and passed on our condolences and...

Boyce to challenge Littleproud for Nationals’ leadership

Federal MP for the Central Queensland seat of Flynn, Colin Boyce has announced he will contest the National Party leadership to unseat current leader...

Gallery marks 25 years

The Pomona Railway Station Gallery is turning 25 this year, but the milestone is about far more than an anniversary. It’s a celebration of...

Mackerel fishing boost

An increase in Spanish mackerel populations has provided a sustainable basis for increasing the allowable take for both commercial and recreational fishers, Gympie MP...

Tax review raises housing alarm: HIA

The Housing Industry Association has called on the Australian Government to rule out any changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax in this...

Helping keep the bus run on time

One local volunteer organisation was keen to express its thanks to the staff from the Gympie branch of RACQ for their support recently, in...