Health programs fill need
INDIGENOUS elders were treated to an afternoon tea and concert as Warwick’s Carbal Medical Centre hosted an information session about new services available through...
Sunk car emerges
A CAR stolen in Warwick last June was hauled from the Condamine River on Monday.
The Mitsubishi sedan was stolen from Locke Street and had...
Scientist is our ambassador
A QUEENSLAND medical research scientist who made a breakthrough skin cancer treatment is the Southern Downs’ Australia Day Ambassador.
Dr Jim Aylward will attend...
Distractions kill
DRIVER inattention and distraction has become such a serious problem that it has been added to the ’Fatal Four’ - speeding, fatigue, drink or...
Wellcamp set in concrete
By STEVE GRAY
THE Darling Downs new airport at Wellcamp, near Toowoomba, took a major step forward yesterday with the start of construction on the...
Car beheads dinosaur
By STEVE GRAY
ONCE again someone has tried to send Ballandean’s dinosaur extinct.
However Stanthorpe police think the steel and fibreglass structure was probably clipped by...
Fangs a lot for Careflight
IN A typical year RACQ CareFlight Rescue airlifts around five people suffering snake bites.
In just the past month six people been airlifted - a...
CEO flags new hopes for 2014
A CROSS-BORDER agreement with Tenterfield Shire is among the achievements for Southern Downs Regional Council in 2013, according to CEO Andrew Roach.
He listed the...
Shire faces review
By STEVE GRAY
THE Information Commissioner will review Tenterfield Shire Council’s refusal to release details of staff wages.
The Tenterfield Progress Association (TPA, formerly Tenterfield Rates...
Highway crashes
Warwick Police
TWO trucks have crashed at almost the same spot on the New England Highway at The Glen, just south of Warwick, in separate...
Drugs seized
STANTHORPE POLICE
A 34-YEAR-OLD male passenger is being charged with possessing a quantity of cannabis and seeds after the drugs and other material in the...
Stingers end pursuit
POLICE used stingers to puncture the tyres of an allegedly stolen car on Sunday night after it had evaded them in Wallangarra.
Queensland police were...
Stay safe this snake season
As warmer weather sets in, Southern Downs residents are reminded to be on the lookout for snakes.
So far this snake season (September and October),...
