Regional News

Careers ACCORDING to Josh Harrison, if you are under 25 and out of work, it’s because you’re lazy and “not trying hard enough”.

News NEIGHBOURS said they heard a woman scream during a house fire as a man allegedly killed himself and his parents. A Whitsundays man was among the victims.

Pets & Animals A Mackay man has issued a $3000 reward after one of his pit bulls was found dead on his front doorstep and the other wa stolen.

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News A YOUNG family have splashed $1.3million on a luxury Mackay property in what is the highest residential sale of the year so far.

News A TRUCK driver has escaped injury after the truck he was driving rolled into a body of water just off the Bruce Hwy this morning.

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Crime The workers were allegedly underpaid by almost $10,000, now Fair Work Australia is taking the company to court.

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Crime A father smeared a message in his own blood pleading for help after repeatedly bashing his face against the walls and floor of his watch-house cell.

News SHE was a pawn in a deadly game. But a judge says when this woman faced the threat of losing her sex shop job, she kept on selling harmful synthetic marijuana.

News They're used to snakes. But finding one curled up on their 12-year-old daughter's doona was a first... and an image to send shivers down any parents' spine.

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News THE family of a Mackay man whose remains have not been found six years after he was callously killed and dumped in bushland are desperate for new information.

News "This is a huge win for motorists who'll no longer be taken for a ride by rogue towies.

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News A MUM has been left disappointed after at least two parcels were stolen from her house, one being a birthday present for her two-year-old son.

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News Bad weather stops resurfacing of sunk helicopter

Breaking Firefighters battling a blaze at a restaurant

News A Bowen man has been arrested on drug charges after being found with a street value of $40,000 worth of drugs in his underwear.

News He was only a young boy around 12 at the time when he finished school for the day at Crediton primary school, which doesn't exist anymore

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News Five officers in dilapidated building MP claims

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News They knew it would affect worker's allowances but said it was an honest and genuine mistake　

Crime A sex shop dabbled in stinky fake weed business – with tragic consequences.

News Ex-Tropical Cyclone Iris is expected to bring continued rainfall until the rest of the week and then hopefully disappear.