CHDC records audited $197K loss
The Central Highlands Development Corporation has recorded a $197,000 loss for the 2024-25 financial year.
Central Highlands council's finance manager Helen Kirby presented the audited...
Pilot program celebrates graduates
The first graduates have emerged confident and job ready from CQUniversity's $1.6 million Rural and Remote PIlot Program.
The program was a Queensland Government initiative...
Cook Colliery placed in care and maintenance
QCoal has put Blackwater's Cook Colliery into care and maintenance mode, with the loss of another 70 jobs weeks before Christmas.
The decision to...
Marist STEM students do us proud on national stage
After winning the Queensland State Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Challenge Final, around 25 budding scientists from Marist College Emerald recently traveled to Newcastle,...
Tourist park out to ease rental squeeze
The new owners of Emerald Tourist Park will bring 25 long-term, affordable rentals to the market from early 2026.
Brisbane-based Eureka Group purchased the Roberts...
Future Cotton partnership to benefit Emerald growers
The State Government has entered into a $7.2 million partnership with the Cotton Research and Development Corporation to boost grower support, research and help...
Job cuts hit Gladstone
The Gladstone community was rocked by Rio Tinto’s decision to cut production at the Yarwun Alumina Refinery impacting 180 jobs.
The site currently employs around...
Joyce’s exit ‘disheartening’
Nationals leader and Maranoa MP David Littleproud has called Barnaby Joyce's decision to leave the National Party 'disheartening' as the maverick MP flirts with...
Labor’s climate hypocrisy
Last week in the House of Representatives the Labor Member for Leichhardt - effectively Far North Queensland - Matt Smith said that "When I...
22 new projects on the road
The State Government has confirmed that four Central Queensland road upgrades are among 22 new projects to be delivered under the Bruce Highway Targeted...
Steam Railway given $20k to overhaul heritage locomotive
Warwick’s Southern Downs Steam Railway has been handed $20,000 in state grant funding to overhaul a heritage diesel locomotive.
Southern Downs Steam Railway Chairman Kelvin...
New accessible drinking fountain unveiled
A new accessible drinking fountain was unveiled at Lions Park, Boyne Island, on Saturday, 22 November, in a community celebration led by the Gladstone...

















