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‘Let them eat tilapia’: pest fish petition

Biosecurity laws are protecting rather than stamping out the highly edible pest fish, tilapia, as found in the Mary and other Queensland rivers, according...

Safer flood detour delivered for Southside

Southside residents now have a safer and more reliable flood detour, with upgrades to Smerdon, Pritchard and Copp Roads officially complete. The project wrapped up...

‘User pays’ call on flood drive rescues

The Queensland parliament is being asked to penalise people who knowingly choose to drive in flood waters, with drivers told they will have to...

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Sport

Bowditch tops Vets monthly medal

Tuesday 6 January, 65 Gympie Vets played a Monthly Medal with the best score of the day going to new member John Bowditch. ...

26 for 26

It was '26 for 26' last Monday night, 5 January, for the Gympie Hash House Harriers' first run of the year. 3 new runners...

A huge year for Gympie sportsmen and women

It's been a massive year for sports in the Gympie region, and sporting achievements in all sorts of sports have been recorded, from Motor...

Josh’s ready to take the lead

At just 20 years of age, Gympie rally driver Joshua Wiedman has already etched his name into Australian motorsport history. And he’s only just getting...

Stella and Kev’s high versus Col’s shocker

It was another glorious day of golf for the Gympie Vets on Tuesday, 16 December. The rain held off, there were some great...

Golf Ladies award their best and fairest

The following Awards for 2025 were presented at the Gympie Golf Club Ladies’ Christmas Lunch and End of Year Presentation held at the home...

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Entertainment

D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective launches 2026 season

D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective is proud to announce the launch of its 2026 season, delivering a bold program of professional contemporary, multicultural theatre. Guided by a...

New Year, new perceptions exhibit

What does January 2026 bring to Art Post? Somewhere in Between is a collection of work from Lorelle Murray, a predominantly self-taught Gympie artist who...

New Year, new perceptions exhibit

What does January 2026 bring to Art Post? Somewhere in Between is a collection of work from Lorelle Murray, a predominantly self-taught Gympie artist who...

Gympie photographers end busy year

It has come to the end of another year for the Gympie Camera Club, and it’s time for a well-earned break. Santa is packing...

Pie Creek residents celebrate the season

Santa arrived at the Pie Creek Community Hall Christmas party on Saturday, 6 December with bells ringing and sirens blasting. Fifty locals enjoyed the...

Country Christmas comes to Gympie

Kick off your festive season at the Gympie Country Music Club Christmas Concert next Saturday, 13 December, at the Senior Citizens Centre, Mellor Street,...

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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Celebrate small businesses

Queensland’s small and family business sector has reached a major milestone, surpassing more than half a million enterprises for the first time. According to...

Staff turn patients for Rigby

"It’s not often we want our staff to become patients, but in the case of registered nurse Tia working in theater, and partner Lawrence,...

K’Gari spider venom spawns heart attack and stroke drug

Australian funnel-web spider venom has been used to create a drug that could save millions of lives by protecting patients' hearts and brains during...

Tackling life head-on

You are either in or you’re out with life. There are no half measures. It’s the same with farming, especially when you start down the...

RSL Family Day Out

Gympie RSL will be hosting a big family day out in Nelson Reserve on Saturday 17 January. There'll be plenty of entertainment including live music,...

‘Hidden costs’ of school hit poor kids

A big majority of financially stressed families say they may not be able to give their children an equal chance at school, because they...