Hinterland horse-riding accident prompts Lifeflight rescue
The Sunshine Coast-based LifeFlight aeromedical crew airlifted a woman to hospital on Thursday, following a horse-riding incident in the hinterland.
The LifeFlight helicopter was tasked...
Drive to arrive message loud and clear at Traveston
The Gympie Crime Prevention team are hosting a road safety display at Traveston Service Centre tomorrow, Friday, 23 January, ahead of the end of...
Gympie ‘in middle’ of crime drama – police
Gympie is literally in the middle of an alleged weeks-long crime spree which culminated this week in a spectacular 12-car police chase from Peregian...
A whole latte Gympie love
The Coffee Barn Cafe has served the Gympie community for over a decade, cementing itself as a resilient and valued business in Gympie.
Trading through...
‘Just do something’: Beach Road plea
Frustrated Cooloola Coast road safety advocates have called for the state government to accelerate an upgrade to the increasingly busy Rainbow Beach Road.
The three...
Plenty of grinning winners in coast bowls action
On Thursday, 15 January, there were sprinkles of rain, but the laughter and friendship were greater than the weather.
The winners on the day were...
Bat spat spills to Facebook
Gympie Regional Council has posted an informational post to their Facebook page, explaining to residents why flying fox numbers seem to have increased in...
Sweltering day for Gympie RSL event
The actual temperature in the Nelson Reserve on Saturday sat at around the 30-degree mark, but the intermittent cloud cover and the stifling humidity...
LNP on One Nation watch in Wide Bay
Gympie region's federal MP Llew O'Brien will be on watch as One Nation eclipses the Coalition in recent national polling.
Although opinion polls can provide...
Pick a side on renewables divide
State parliament has been petitioned to stop all renewable energy projects in Queensland for environmental and economic reasons - and in another petition to...
Cops mark fire that gutted home as ‘suspicious’
Police are treating a fire that completely gutted a double-storey home in Gundiah, 50km north of Gympie, as "suspicious", a Queensland Police Service (QPS)...
News snippets from across the region for the past week
Jamie Venardos funeral
A funeral will be held today, Friday 23 January, for Jamie Venardos, son of former Cooloola Shire mayor Mick Venardos and his...
Chance of more rain, but not much
Heavy overnight rain across some parts of Gympie region overnight is not predicted to mean any return of flood danger,
Rain is a possibility over...
