Council brings down new budget
By Jeremy Sollars
Ratepayers face a 2.75 per cent rates hike in the new Southern Downs Regional Council budget for 2018-2019 formally adopted...
Saleyards lease option off the table
By Jeremy Sollars
The Southern Downs Regional Council has announced that a potential deal with a private operator to lease the Warwick Saleyards...
Solar farm deal with uni revealed
By Jeremy Sollars
The approval earlier today by a majority of Southern Downs councillors of a massive solar farm at Sladevale north of...
Close vote but solar plan approved
By Jeremy Sollars
Southern Downs councillors have narrowly voted five to four in favour of approving a massive solar farm in the Sladevale...
Terrain Solar farm decision pending
By Jeremy Sollars
Southern Downs councillors will decide on an application for a massive solar farm at Sladevale north of Warwick at a...
Crews working to contain bushfire
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) crews are on scene at a vegetation fire burning near Whites Road at Maryvale, northeast of Warwick today,...
Slightly warmer start to next week: BOM
By Jeremy Sollars
The Southern Downs and Granite Belt are looking at a chilly weekend but temps will start to rise slightly from...
Solar farm special meeting next week
By Jeremy Sollars
Southern Downs councillors will decide on an application for a massive solar farm at Sladevale north of Warwick at a...
Truckie sentenced over cyclist’s death
Kingsthorpe truck driver Geoffrey Joseph Sleba has been given a three-year prison term for causing the death of a cyclist near Inglewood on Anzac...
Saleyards public meeting date announced
By Jeremy Sollars
The Southern Downs Regional Council has announced it will hold a public meeting to discuss the future management of the...
Tough new live export penalties
Live animal exporters who do the wrong thing could face up to 10 years behind bars and fines of up to $4.2 million or...
Bushfire risk high in the dry
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) is urging south-west residents to prepare their properties as unseasonably dry conditions increase bushfire risk.
Rural Fire Service...
Autograph book tells timeless story of remembrance
For countries around the Commonwealth of Nations, 11 November, it has been a significant date for remembering those men and women who answered the...
