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Highlands Grevilleas in full bloom

Everywhere you look at the moment you can see Grevilleas in full bloom. Growing along the Capricorn Highway between Emerald and Bluff is an...

Emerald Today comes to town

Emerald Today was introduced to the business community at an informal gathering at the Western Gateway. With Today News Group director Damian Morgan in attendance,...

Waltz on by for ballroom dancing

Ballroom dancing in Emerald was started back in 1972 by Walter and Pat Willans. From then yearly medal examinations and workshops were implemented which...

It’s the race that stops the Central Highlands

The Emerald 100 – the race that stops the Central Highlands The local football finals are done and dusted and it’s time to glam...

Cake dreams in a coal town

You walk into Theresa Fletcher’s air conditioned Blackwater cake studio to find her focused on fine brushwork as she creates the textured fur for...

All aboard the $1m STEAM dream

It's a bold experiment to make Emerald’s Outback Exploratorium into a rural voyage of discovery to rival Canberra’s National Science and Technology Centre in...

Emerald’s floral beauty

Emerald is one of those gifted communities that cane grow a vast range of trees, shrubs and groundcovers that those garden lovers cannot grow...

Life’s never a drag on the Gemfields

Raucous, rowdy and rainbow-hued revellers ensured the Sapphire RSL rocked all night for the Gemfields’ first post-Covid Mardi Gras. Festival of Gems organising committee member...

Josh helps farmers and miners strike a common chord

From windy Gindie to the Dysart Dynamos, musician Josh Arnold couldn’t have been more blown away. Josh was in the Central Highlands and coalfields a...

Blackwater man missing in Rockhampton

Police are seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a 44-year-old Blackwater man missing from the Rockhampton area since January 10. Mark Stafford was last...

Tree chop anger