Beware bypass ’scam’
According to reports from Gympie region and South Burnett residents, unknown numbers have been texting them for unpaid tolls for travelling the Gympie Bypass.
Although...
Machine Gun Preacher to visit Gympie
Sam Childers whose life was the subject of Hollywood movie, The Machine Gun Preacher, will be visiting Gympie on Tuesday 8 April, from 5:30pm to 8pm.
Sam Childers: aka the Machine Gun...
Olympic flow-on effect
Although most of the infrastructure benefits from the 2032 Olympics are south of Gympie, there are a couple of more northerly projects that will...
Gympie closing the gap
On Thursday 20 March, friends, family and local mob gathered at the Indoor Bowls Club for Closing the Gap day.
The Closing the Gap initiative...
‘Red ink’ budget for Wide Bay
The federal election budget will cost us all, according to Wide Bay Coalition MP Llew O'Brien.
Mr O'Brien described the budget as "filled with higher...
Shorebirds readying up for arctic flight
The remarkable annual circuit that our shorebirds fly is called the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and it passes through 23 countries.
The shorebirds have spent...
Tony gets tough on Fire Ants
Gympie MP and Minister for Primary Industries, Tony Perrett, early this week announced a $24 million boost to Queensland’s Fire Ant Suppression Taskforce –...
Help preserve history
Gympie Family History Society is keen to invite people to get involved in preserving family and local history, one story at a time.
"Become...
News snippets from across the region for the past week
Planned burn
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will conduct a planned burn around the Dundubara QPWS Base and Campground within the Great Sandy...
Highway upgrade work for Gympie
The near-Gympie region will be among the early beneficiaries of a $9 billion program to improve the Bruce Highway,
Gympie MP Tony Perrett said an...
Busy Sunday for LifeFlight
Sunday was a busy day for the Sunshine Coast-based LifeFlight aeromedical crew, who airlifted two patients from separate crashes in the Gympie region.
In the...
Blue Ride shines a light fon men’s health
You can’t have a Blue Ride without Bluey … and Bingo for that matter.
The holding of the Kilkivan Blue Ride for Men’s Health...
Fuelling hope and fear
As Gympie’s drive tourism industry braces for fuel price effects, there was a ray of hope this week that the region’s proximity to major...
