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...
La Nina train wreck
The La Nina weather system which dumped 400mm in one night on some spots in the near-Gympie region, was a train wreck, literally.
Transport Minister...
Wildlife displaced after flooding
The Department of Environment and Science (DES) is urging residents in flood-affected areas to watch out for wildlife while cleaning up after the recent...
Roads re-open as data shows flood retreat
Official river heights data from the Department of Natural Resources and Mines shows how fast things are improving as Gympie region roads re-open and...
Gympie flood recedes at last
Normanby Bridge is expected to re-open this morning, as the Bureau of Meteorology reports river levels are expected to drop below the Normanby Bridge...
Schools stay shut on Tuesday
Gympie schools will remain closed for Tuesday, despite the re-opening of selected schools in the Sunshine Coast and Noosa areas, Education Minister Grace Grace...
Flood data: DNR latest river heights
Latest River Heights for the Mary River and tributaries
Issued at 9.10pm on Monday, 28 February 2022
Mary
Obi Obi Ck at Gardners Falls * 8.00pm Mon...
Timber plan to secure supply for new homes
Queensland will have enough local timber to end its dependence on product imported from countries with no environmental safeguards, under a 25-year plan to...
