News snippets from across the region for the past week
Two-car crash
A patient was transported to Gympie Hospital in stable condition following a two-vehicle crash on Langton Road, Monkland, at 11.08am on Sunday, 23...
‘Insurance Catastrophe’ : 16,000 claims in 140 postcodes lodged over two days in wake...
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) declared an Insurance Catastrophe on Tuesday for the strong winds and damaging hail that impacted South East Queensland...
UPDATE: 6600 Gympie homes, businesses and government agencies blacked out by storms.
UPDATE: Fierce storms which ripped through Gympie region last night caused widespread blackouts affecting a total of 6600 Energex customers, it has now been...
Energex goes positive on repairs, hoping for no more damage tonight
Energex workers are thinking positive on power supply restoration work, still underway across Gympie region, despite more predicted storms tonight..
"We've till got nearly 2000...
Storm damage advice
Gympie Regional Council has urged residents to report any blocked or damaged roads, or fallen trees or branches and to avoid fallen powerlines.
if you...
Building works on the Horizon
Site works are set to begin this month as Horizon Living, Gympie’s newest luxury Over 50s resort community, starts to take shape on a...
Brad’s 450k ride, 5 months after heart attack
A Sunshine Coast cyclist who suffered a heart attack while training for a mammoth event has thanked the cardiac team who helped him get...
Nominations open for Australia Day awards
Gympie Regional Council is calling on the community to help celebrate the people and organisations that make Gympie region exceptional, as nominations are now...
Judges go nuts for our maccas
Two Gympie region macadamia operations have been honoured for both productivity and quality of product in the Australian Macadamia Society Awards for National Agriculture...
Govt targets schools for agricultural future
Goomeri P-10 State School has been made part of a new state government program to achieve a better trained agricultural workforce, targeting students...
Endurance riding in good hands
Horse riding is more than a past-time or a sport ... it’s about passion and commitment.
It’s about getting out into nature and connecting with...
Love lives on after Federal crash
A woman whose husband was saved by a LifeFlight chopper crew after being severely injured in a motorcycle crash at Federal last year, has...
Planned mobile outages ahead for Southside, Jones Hill Telstra customers
Mobile phone services in Gympie South will be temporarily disrupted from this Friday, as Telstra undertakes upgrade works on its Corbet Rd, Jones Hill...
