Local officers urge community to teach children positive online interactions
Safer Internet Day may have passed you by last Tuesday (February 6) without much thought, but for the Gladstone Child Protection and Investigation Unit's...
$107m shopping centre sale
Two major fund managers have joined forces to buy what they claim is Bundaberg’s “biggest and highest performing retail precinct,“ Hinkler Central, with a...
Police seeking beer bandits on keg stealing benders
Thieves are cashing in on a golden 'hopportunity', stealing empty beer kegs from outside pubs in a crimewave that's costing the industry tens of...
Shaped by nature and nurture
The age-old question of nature versus nurture has fascinated scholars and laypeople alike, as they ponder how these two forces shape our lives.
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$1M up for grabs at charity golf event
An Emerald business will celebrate its first year in operation by offering a mammoth $1 million for a hole in one at its inaugural...
Students return to learn industry skills
Boyne Smelters (BLS) welcomed this week the 2024 Business Industry and Tourism Skills (BITS) Program students and all the familiar faces retuning to the...
Changes to the world needed for women
Initially, I was curious about the question of how the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), observed globally on 6...
Listen and learn says department mayor
‘Don’t drop the ball on the fundamentals’ and take your time to grow into the role is the advice from a departing Central Western...
Behind the Smile—Life Lessons in Vulnerability and Empathy
I have been dreading this day but knew that it would eventually come.
Getting my front tooth knocked out playing basketball as a teenager...
Gladstone wins rights to host prestigious pests and weeds symposium
Gladstone Area Water Board has been selected to host the 2025 Pest Animal and Weed Symposium (2025 PAWS), bringing industry and pest and...
Technology Red Tape
I have been helping my Dad (who is over 80 – hope he doesn’t mind me publishing that!) with his home computer and internet...
Police taser man brandishing chainsaw, steel pole
Gladstone police tasered a man who threatened officers with a chainsaw and steel pole in Clinton on 29 January.
At 3.55pm, police were called to...
Boardwalk renewal works underway at Seventeen Seventy
Renewal works on the popular timber boardwalk at Air Sea Rescue Park, Seventeen Seventy are underway, with completion scheduled for mid-December 2025, weather and...
