Say Hallelujah for Handel’s Messiah
I’m a sucker for a live music show. I don’t mind if it’s good or bad, classical or popular, jazz, blues or rock; as...
PopCon powers up Gladstone
The Gladstone Region’s biggest pop culture extravaganza PopCon made a thunderous comeback on Saturday, 13 September.
The event saw more than 5000 people packing the...
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SEPTEMBER
Saturday 20 September
Village Garage Sale
Houses throughout Keppel Sands will be taking part in the Village Garage Sale. Look out for homes marked with...
Big speeds and big fines during operation in the highlands
Officers from the Highway Patrol, with the support of police divisions of Westwood, Duaringa, Blackwater, Emerald, Rolleston, Springsure, Anakie and Capella, have conducted a...
Birds spotted at Stanwell
The convenor of the U3A Rockhampton Birdwatching Group, Rod Elder, chooses lovely venues to visit – which make it worthwhile getting out of bed...
First home buyers miss out on Rocky’s mega housing sales
Rockhampton has topped the Sunshine State in annual housing price growth with a rise of 24.35 per cent over the past year, but the...
Fog and steamy afternoons
After Thursday morning's high humidity and thick fog (airport visibility 100m), Rocky recorded 32.8C at 2.52pm Thursday, its warmest maximum since 3 April.
And we...
Yeppoon Road milestone
The Rockhampton–Yeppoon Road upgrade has reached a key milestone, with motorists using a new duplicated section from Tuesday, 16 September, with one lane operating...
Marlborough Road cry for help
Livingstone Shire Council will alert Queensland’s Transport and Main Roads Minister to a dangerous section of Marlborough Road, after Cr Glenda Mather raised the...
Shops get the green light
Livingstone Shire councillors have unanimously approved a development application for a new supermarket-anchored shopping centre in Taroomball.
Proposed by the Lancini Property Group, the 10.9ha...
Black day for Bowen Basin
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli will hold crisis talks with coal miners after 900 jobs were wiped from the industry this week as Anglo American...
80 jobs to go from Blackwater’s Cook Colliery
QCoal will axe around 80 jobs from its underground mine Cook Colliery at Blackwater.
On Friday, 19 September, the company said the move was a...
Hanson jets in to inspect pool
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has jetted into Central Queensland on a Cirrus G7 donated to her by Gina Rinehart to check out...
