Our debt to disaster
It may be hard to realise now, but Gympie owes a lot to the social glue that comes with disaster.
Mary St shopkeepers, especially at...
‘Snakes about after floods’, catcher warns
It may just be the last thing on your mind following the devastating trail the recent flooding event left behind, but local snake relocater...
A popular family man taken too soon
The news we all dread hearing during any disaster is the possibility of loss of life and sadly that was the news received during...
Telstra brings satellite base to restore cover to Kilkivan
With the widespread flooding around the region, several communities have been isolated, with regards to telecommunications, including outages in areas like Kilkivan, which also...
Mary Valley forestry closed to public
Plantation forests in the Mary Valley managed by HQPlantations remain closed until further notice following substantial rainfall and extensive flooding over the past week,...
Mighty helpful handout for flood affected clubs
Sunshine Mitre 10, like many other local businesses, is doing what it can to assist Gympie to recover from the devastating flood damage experienced...
Bay chemist on the road to save lives
Tin Can Bay community pharmacist James Lester took his time getting to work on Tuesday, making sure he could get there at all, to...
Floods hit region from all sides
Buckets of rain, equal to 80 percent of a normal year's falls, hit hard across Gympie and neighbouring regions in recent days.
Weekend reports of...
Weather forces schools to close
The Queensland Government has made the announcement this morning that parents and caregivers should pick their children up from schools across region "given the...
Teens charged following devastating house fire
The arsonists behind the house fire on East Deep Creek Road last month have been revealed to be four teenage girls, who on Wednesday,...
Premier’s Gympie flood visit
"The sexy part is over, now comes the clean-up," Gympie Regional Council acting CEO David Lewis told Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in Gympie on Wednesday.
The...
GALLERY: 39 Photos of the Tuesday clean up
The clean up continued today, with Normanby Bridge opening around 10am and the highway to the south.
With this gallery we were invited inside the...
Thank-you tiles, just the thing
The Little Haven Marketplace has had a mini makeover—and it hasn’t cost a cent!
Thanks to the generosity of local handyman Peter Harrison, the volunteers’...
