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Jail for drunken pushbike rider

A DRUNKEN decision to steal a push bike landed a Hervey Bay man behind bars yesterday.

Water park makes an eco-splash

The WetSide Water Education Park has helped win Hervey Bay a Tidy Towns award with its water conservation message and practices.

WETSIDE Water Education Park has helped Hervey Bay win a Tidy Towns water conservation award in the Keep Australia Beautiful competition.
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'Opal bandit' fronts court

These goods were found in Carlo Kohl’s car along with opals, thought to be stolen from Coober Pedy.

WHEN Carlo Kohl fronted the Hervey Bay Magistrates court yesterday police weren't taking any chances.

 

Council defers bushfire strategy

BUSHFIRE season began on Sunday but the Fraser Coast Regional Council this week deferred adopting its bushfire management strategy until later this year.
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Replacing bridges costs $20m

THE FRASER Coast’s 43 timber and concrete bridges will cost more than $20 million to replace and some of them are in urgent need of replacement or upgrade.
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Elders the missing key to safe CBD

THE DISAPPEARANCE of Aboriginal elder patrollers from Maryborough streets at night was rued yesterday.

 

CBD's vision for the future

Darren and Linda Smith are optimistic about their business future in the Maryborough CBD.

DARREN and Linda Smith are so confident that Maryborough’s CBD is on the verge of something good that they were more than happy to relocate their business.

 

Alleged stalker in custody

A HERVEY Bay man accused of stalking a woman in Urangan was remanded in custody yesterday.

 

Pests hitch a ride with warm days

Julie Thomson, from Possum Paradise garden nursery, welcomes the start of spring.

SPRING has arrived and so have pesky fruit flies – in the garden and in the kitchen.

 

Work to be done on 8 footpaths

The Pialba-Burrum Heads Road adjacent to Yarrilee State School will get a new footpath.

HERVEY Bay is stepping into footpath heaven with the council giving a tentative green light to building or replacing eight of them in this financial year.
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No detention centre for Coast

A boat carrying 48 suspected asylum seekers west of Darwin last December.

AFTER three days of phone calls and emails, Labor's Immigration Minister's advisor says the Fraser Coast is not being currently considered to house refugees.
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Demand for Bay land high

The Gilston Estate project, outlined in yellow, is grabbing the attention of house buyers.

HIGH demand on the part of Fraser Coast house hunters has prompted a NSW builder to launch stages one and two of a Hervey Bay development at the same time.

 

Flowers for Brittney Rose Kelly

Hervey Bay teenager Brittney Rose (pictured at her high school graduation) will be farewelled by friends and family tomorrow.

FLOWERS will be released into the waters off Torquay Beach tomorrow in honour of the Hervey Bay teenager who lost her life following a car accident last week.

 

Electrical fault blamed for fire

Torquay station officer Mark Long inspects the burnt out sawmill at Torbanlea Pine Timbers after fire ripped through early yesterday morning.

UNCERTAINTY loomed for 10 sawmill employees after fire tore through their workplace near Torbanlea yesterday morning.

 

Man given jail term for assault

CHRISTMAS Day is supposed to be a time of celebration but the day was ruined for two Fraser Coast women last year after they were assaulted by an acquaintance.

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Shark feeding frenzy near Noosa

Shark feeding frenzy near Noosa

HUNDREDS of sharks, some up to 4.5m long, have been filmed in a feeding frenzy off a beach north of Noosa this morning says an AGL Action Rescue Chopper crew.

 

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National News

Autopsies for PNG crash victims

Autopsies for PNG crash victims

THE bodies of the four victims of this week's plane crash in Papua New Guinea will be transported to Brisbane for autopsies, being released by a PNG coroner.

 

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