Plan outdated: ‘like hunting aboriginals’; Mayor
Tensions rose in the local council chamber as the Mayor likened what he claimed was the previous ability to legally hunt first nations peoples...
Fundraiser for funeral after fatal crash
A Gofundme has been created to honour the memory of the Southside man, 28-year-old Andrew David Kelly, after he tragically lost his life in...
Stilll laughing after 60 big years
King Charles was polite enough not to complain when Carol and Errol Ward neglected to invite him to their 60th wedding anniversary celebration at...
Heartbreak for Black Caviar strapper
Marnie Kelly, the partner of Gympie trainer Tony Haydon, instrumental in the career of champion mare Black Caviar, has sadly died following a medical...
Young child airlifted after machinery incident
The LifeFlight Sunshine Coast-based aeromedical crew airlifted a young child to hospital after a machinery incident on Friday 16 May.
The rescue chopper was tasked...
2025 Gympie Show Results – Fancywork
EMBROIDERY
Class 8000 - Centre - 1st Dawn Gomersall, 2nd Dawn Gomersall, 3rd Jeanette Westlake - Sponsor for 1st and 2nd was Gympie Embroidery Services.
Class...
Keeping it in the family
It was a gallop finish for the coveted Tom Quilty 2025 Gold Cup with Queensland’s Sample family repeating history.
Imbil’s Matthew Sample and brother Brook,...
Dingo bites fisherman on K’gari
Rangers are reminding fishers to be alert on K’gari after a man was bitten by a dingo whilst fishing in knee deep water around...
Protecting a local treasure
A rare tree found only in the Gympie region is getting the help it needs thanks to a local conservation project.
Fontainea rostrata, listed as...
38 photos from the Gympie Show
There was plenty of colour and excitement at the Gympie Show last weekend, despite a gloomy weather forecast.
Here's a gallery of 38 photos of...
Around the world with fermented food
It’s not every day you get to sell sauerkraut to the Austrians.
Yet that’s what The Fermentier’s Tania Wiemayr-Freeman was doing - figuratively speaking.
Tania and...
Cross-eyed craft session for VIEW crew
It was a high tea with a difference for several members and guests of the Gympie VIEW Club who gathered at Lyn’s home earlier...
Market held firm
Sullivan Livestock yarded 1481 cattle at their Gympie Cattle Sale held Monday, 26 May, where the market for all descriptions held firm.
Cattle were...
