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Remembrance Day at Barcaldine

Remembrance Day services were held around the Central West on Tuesday, 11 November, with residents pausing to pay tribute to our fallen servicemen and...

Awards honours for St Pat’s students

The Winton Shire Hall was needed this year to accommodate the families and supporters of the 50 students attending St Patrick's Catholic School in...

5G upgrade for Longreach

Telstra will be upgrading its mobile base station that services Longreach to bring upgraded 4G and new 5G coverage to the area. Telstra 5G delivers...

On This Day: National Play Monopoly Day!

Outback Aussie Tours take home silver

Funding secured for more Outback excursions

Belmont Station – honouring the past, inspiring the future

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Sport

Touch carnival a success

Seven teams from across the Central West battled it out in a huge afternoon and evening of touch football last Saturday, as the region...

CQ duo inspire Kangaroos to whitewash

Central Queenslanders Harry Grant and Cameron Munster proved inspirational as Australia wrapped up their three-Test Ashes rugby league whitewash of England at Headingley. The Kangaroos...

Reece’s Choice for a maiden winner

Horseman Reece Zahl credits an off-season learning journey working under Brett Robb at Dubbo as instrumental in his own fledgling training career.  The Alpha-based Zahl has...

Treasured Lad on the way

Bungarribee Lad has been a cherished horse to the Thompson family from the first day he was born and now they cannot wait to...

Bowls by Bones

We were well and truly back into competition bowls at the bowls club again. We as a club don’t really have an off-season in...

Mankelow dominating in the Central West

There is no hotter jockey in the Central West than Maddie Mankelow. The apprentice hoop rode a winning treble at Longreach last Saturday and followed...

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Rural

Farmers and families urged to stay safe on quad bikes

The ACCC has launched a quad bike safety awareness campaign in regional Australia warning that older male farmers remain the group most at risk...

REGIONAL: Hot prices at Roma saleyards

Hot prices and packed laneways, it was a sellers’ market here at the Roma Saleyards with a little over 6,100 head of cattle yarded. With...

Ag In Brief

Poor affordability to pressure global fertiliser demand in 2026 Global fertiliser markets are entering a new phase of contraction, as rising prices begin to...

Ag In Brief

Combing through genetics delivers tools to keep bees busy Australian researchers are delving into the secret life of bees in a quest to breed more...

Ag In Brief

Combing through genetics delivers tools to keep bees busy Australian researchers are delving into the secret life of bees in a quest to breed more...

Ag In Brief

Strong growth in livestock Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has released the results of its 2024–25 National Saleyard Survey, revealing a significant increase in livestock...

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Half a million dollars’ worth of cannabis seized in vehicle intercept, Winton

Two men in a white campervan driving along the Landsborough Highway outside of Winton have been charged, after a police intercept found almost half...

First Nations focus of Queensland Tourism Week

The Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC) has launched Tourism Week 2025 in style, with a packed-out Destination IQ conference celebrating the growth, strength, and...

Letters to the Editor

PRESERVING OUR REGIONAL VOICE The refrain goes that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. But we do know what we’ve got with the...

Your Online Comments

'FIRST LADY' OF LONGREACH Lynette Hasted: I can remember Mrs Hughes. She was quite a stern lady and a good friend of my grandparents, Etta...

Rolling out a new Longreach-Winton link

If I were to say I’m about to share the story of something which greatly enhanced transport between Longreach and Winton and that the...

November rain … or not

There has been ‘something in the air’ for a while. The November forecasts have been calling for rain, particularly in Queensland. We’ve been waiting with bated...

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