Claire’s amazing fightback
It has been two months since a devastating tractor accident left Ballandean seamstress Claire McKenzie lying in her paddock near death after her tractor...
Connie cuts for a cure
Turning 50 during the Covid lockdown has inspired Connie Taylor of Taylor’s Family Produce to do something for the community and that something is...
Vital festival program looks for entrants
With the Apple and Grape Harvest Festival now just over a year away the search is on for the “faces of the 2024” event...
First baby is mum’s seventh
He is being celebrated as the first baby of the year born in Stanthorpe, but it took a border crossing by ambulance to achieve...
Vehicle rollover into Ballandean Dump
Police are yet to establish the cause of a single vehicle rollover that crashed through the Ballandean Dump fence on 27 December.
The driver, a...
Truck and ute collide in serious crash on New England Highway
A police investigation is continuing into whether fatigue was a contributing factor to the horrific truck and ute collision that occurred on the New...
Making plans for the future
Death is inevitable and talking about it seems to be an uncomfortable subject for most but Leyburn-based author, death literacy advocate and journalist Lisa...
Here we Show again, Stanthorpe leads the way
Stanthorpe held the first show of the year in Australia in 2021 and was one of the first major events to resume after the...
Time for fresh tomatoes on the Granite Belt
It’s summertime when Granite Belt and Southern Downs cooks and chefs wait patiently for the best, flavourful local tomatoes coming fresh from local farms....
Summer holiday time at the Library
Are you wondering what fun, free things there are to do during the school holidays?
The library can help.
Southern Downs Regional Libraries are filled with...
Love shone bright on a grey day
Rain and mud couldn’t put a dampener on the wedding of Allahna Picknell and Kyle Marsh at Stanthorpe on 3 September.
The couple were...
A wedding in the clouds for Shannon and Jon
Shannon and Jonathon “Jon” Stewart had the perfect place to have their wedding – Jester Hill Wines - because when your dad and stepmother...
Wieambilla shootings ‘not a terrorist act’: coroner
Three conspiracy theorists had shared delusions but did not carry out a terrorist act when they ambushed police in an attack that killed six...
