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Queensland Police Chaplain Reverend Mat Govern has formally inducted local Childers Pastor Allan Brown as the volunteer police chaplain for Childers Police Station recently. The ceremony was attended by local officers, staff members and guests from Childers Wesleyan Methodist church. After...

Queensland Police Constables Luke Handley and Brendan Cullen patrolled on pushbikes in Gin Gin on New Year's Eve to keep an eye on the town's new year celebrations. The use of bicycles increases officer mobility in areas where it is...

Community consultation on the future of the Bargara Cultural Centre and Bargara Service Centre / administration building will be completed in the next few weeks. Due to keen public interest and the holiday season, Council extended the timeframe for comments...

Division 8 councillor Steve Cooper has welcomed the completion of line marking for car parks in Penny Lane at Branyan School. Cr Cooper said along with a new footpath and crossing it was all ready for the start of school...

Bundaberg had below-average rainfall in 2018 and the dry weather trend is continuing so far in 2019. Just 742mm was recorded at Bundaberg Airport last year, which is well below the long-term mean of 1021mm. Most of the rain fell in...

Seventeen same-sex couples wed in Bundaberg during the year after same-sex marriage ceremonies were made legal on January 9, 2018. Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Yvette D’Ath said while same-sex marriage had been legal in Australia since December 9, 2017,...