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Is your child world-class?

Give your child a head start. Martial Arts will teach your child coordination, self-control, focus, fitness, and traditional family values such as respect and discipline,...

All aboard for Aussie Day

A special Australia Day service on the Mary Valley Rattler will allow passengers to take their own trip back into Australia’s heritage past. The 26...

Beautiful babies get top start

More than 75,000 baby fish, known as fingerlings, have made Borumba Dam their new home thanks to the Lake Borumba Fish Stocking Association and...

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Sport

Gympie gold shines at national champs

Members of the Gympie District Hockey Association were flying the flag high at the National Indoor Hockey Championships in Canberra over the past few...

Ladies at the mercy of weather gods

It was good to see an increase in the number of players on Wednesday, 6 January, when ladies played a Single Stableford, their first...

Tennis season at Queens Park

It is certainly tennis season with the Brisbane International, United Cup, Adelaide International and Hobart International already completed in 2025 and now the Australian...

Rafter’s Rallee for fashion

Gympie's favourite tennis export, former World #1 Pat Rafter, has aced his latest project, launching a fashion label. The label, Rallee, is inspired by racquet...

Perfect day for golf

It was was a perfect day for golf on Tuesday 7 January. The course was still a little soggy but the Gympie vets would like...

Wicked holiday catches

The holiday season has seen some absolutely wicked fish caught over the holidays with some exceptional catches from around the region. Here’s a a...

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Words inspire textile art

Members of the Gympie Thread and Fibre Group had their art take centre stage on Saturday with the official opening of an exhibition called...

Stillness of ruins ‘speaks’ to artist

When local artist Gemma Kennedy visited the UK early last year, she found a profound source of inspiration in dilapidated structures where ancient ruins...

All in the words

All in the Words is coming to the Gympie Regional Gallery, featuring the works of artists that have shared at monthly group meetings from...

New ambassadors announced

There are No Brakes on The Wolfe Brothers’ career and now the Gympie Music Muster’s 'Damn Good Mates' have been announced as the 2025...

Flowers go wild in new exhibition

An exciting exhibition at the Gympie Regional Gallery, beginning late January, will highlight the magnificent wildflowers of our region through art. The ‘Wildflowering by Design’...

Blues legends keen to go Mustering

Santa may have visited recently, but the Gympie Music Muster continues to bring the gifts and unveil the 2025 line-up for the Boss Hire...

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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Memories of the Old Nurses Quarters

When the news about the destruction of the nurse’s quarters at the Gympie Hospital reached the Gympie Family History Society, they decided to ask...

Join a winning club that’s all about community

For more than 30 years, the Cooloola Bowls Club has been a club owned and managed by bowlers for the benefit of the district....

Inquiry enthusiasm

Gympie-based Rural Fire Brigades Association Queensland general manager Justin Choveaux has enthusiastically welcomed the new parliamentary committee inquiry into what has gone wrong for...

News snippets from across the region for the past week

Buggy v vehicle Two patients were transported to Gympie Hospital in potentially life-threatening conditions after a buggy and vehicle crash at Cedar Pocket Road, Cedar...

Flood waters subside across region

Minor flooding has subsided along the Mary River to Gympie's north, including at Miva and Tiaro, according to the final report on the incident,...

Five new faces to learn at Gympie Hospital

The future faces of our region’s medical industry are getting prepared to hit the wards of Sunshine Coast Health’s hospitals, after years of study...