Heading south for the winter
Tourism Tasmania has launched the 2026 iteration of its award-winning Off Season campaign, showcasing more than 500 bookable offers and events, and inviting Australians...
Premier’s Gladstone oil refinery plans
Gladstone could be home to a fuel refinery if plans announced by Queensland Premier David Crisafulli to ensure the nation's fuel security come to...
Archives: What was in the news 71 years ago
On this day 23 April 1954:
Discussion around the observance of Anzac Day arose at a Longreach Shire Council meeting following confirmation of a separate...
Beginning of a legend
The afternoon of Monday, this week, was the 108th anniversary of the day in 1918 when pilot Paul McGinness and observer Hudson Fysh, two-thirds...
From monsoon to autumn
It has been a sudden transition from the humid monsoon to the drier autumn, after the 12 cyclones out of the mega monsoon.
This dumped...
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Social Tennis
Grab your racquet (or borrow one) and join the Longreach Tennis Club for a hit every Tuesday. Come down for some...
On This Day: Scream Day!
In this modern day and age, with pressures and anxieties piled up high, is it really any wonder that someone would come up with...
Cash splash for Outback events
A suite of Outback Queensland events have received a major funding boost as part of ongoing flood recovery efforts, with more than $282,000 committed...
Riders head West
The RideWest peloton will roll out of Brisbane on Friday, 24 April, beginning the eight-day journey west that ends in Longreach next week.
The biennial...
Water licence paves way for weirs
The State Government has granted a new 500 megalitre water licence to Longreach Regional Council, ensuring council will be ready to make use of...
Service honoured across the West
Communities will come together this Saturday, 25 April, to mark Anzac Day, with services and commemorations planned across the Central West.
The Longreach Regional Council...
Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigating helicopter crash death
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating after a pilot died in a helicopter crash at a station south of Jericho on Monday,...
Heading south for the winter
Tourism Tasmania has launched the 2026 iteration of its award-winning Off Season campaign, showcasing more than 500 bookable offers and events, and inviting Australians...
