Fergus Gregg

A former police officer has achieved what no LNP candidate before him has managed to do, winning one of Labor’s longest-running safe seats.

A new modelling agency has jogged off the beach and onto the Mackay and Airlie Beach advertising scene.

Resources Centre of Excellence CEO Steve Boxall, who just a week ago gathered business and community leaders to discuss election priorities, said since then there had been “virtually nothing” committed to the Greater Whitsundays.

It’s the end of an era as a wedding venue and fine dining restaurant will close its doors by the end of the year, ending a 23 year tenure.

The Mackay regional council August ordinary meeting is set to approve the leave period for one councillor, review development applications and determine the fate of a Homebush wedding venue.

Mackay council has approved new pet management measures potentially allowing council officers to enter ratepayers’ properties.

The mayor of Mackay and a Gold Coast councillor will battle it out in the first leg of a brand new yacht race connecting the coastal cities.

After weeks of speculation Premier Steven Miles settled the rumours surrounding the seat of Mackay once and for all by asking Belinda Hassan to throw her name into the ring.The Premier travelled to Mackay and stood up with the Mackay deputy mayor to promote her as his preferred candidate for Mackay, less than 24 hours after three-term MP Julieanne Gilbert said she wouldn’t contest the seat.

A CBD business has said ‘bye bye’ to the Cocos Cubano franchise and has launched an effort to revitalise their restaurant in the hopes of attracting a new buyer.

The motion to formally object to the controversial Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro Scheme has met an anti-climatic end as cooler heads prevailed in the council chambers.