Gympie a migration target
New statistics show 500,000 Australians migrated interstate last year, many responding to Covid lockdowns - with Gympie one of the prime real estate beneficiaries.
As...
Lucky visit to local pub
A Gympie player has thanked a last-minute decision to give another Keno game a go for their life-enhancing $600,000 Keno Racing win.
The Wide...
Valley ‘survival day’ Saturday
The Mary Valley will celebrate its survival tomorrow (Saturday 16 July) as it marks the decision by former federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to...
Nurse Isabella’s resilience
Before the development of hospitals that provided health care for patients, there existed a number of small ‘cottage’ hospitals providing care for women giving...
Winter Markets really cool
Arlie's Shed hosted the first ever Gympie Winter Markets, which offered a family friendly evening of good music, good food and great local products....
Survey says: Locals against Park development
An Associate Professor on Environment and Ecotourism from a Tokyo university is keen to gauge the public's reaction to the controversial Cooloola Great Walk...
Diamonds to be best friend to monitor concussion, dementia, epilepsy
Scientists have taken a promising step towards a new generation of accurate, affordable and portable devices to detect concussion, epilepsy and dementia.
The...
’Farmers’ friend’ budget
“The Queensland agriculture sector has never had a greater friend than the Palaszczuk government,“ Agriculture Minister Mark Furner has claimed in state parliament.
He spoke...
Power price shock
High and rising electricity prices, combined with sometimes critical shortages were a national challenge resulting from long term "energy policy chaos" under the previous...
Plenty to smile about, school’s out!
The second week of school holidays were wet and soggy, but thankfully the Gympie region had plenty on offer for our little holiday makers!...
Hive of activity for the bees
The wet weekend proved to be a deterrent for some of the visitors to the Valley Bees Open Day at the weekend, with numbers...
Hospital heartache
Gympie residents had the chance to have their voices heard this week at a Health Crisis Meeting with Leader of the Opposition David Crisafulli,...
Good and bad report for Rattler
Some good numbers from Mary Valley Rattler documents.
Total annual employee costs have gone down from $2.1 million to $1.5 million.
A part of that is...
