Backpacker jailed for fatal crash
Court briefs
A 21-YEAR-OLD German backpacker has been sentenced to four months in prison for a car crash that killed a Wallangarra mother.
Alex Hagen Florschutz...
Costs on the agenda
IT’S a big week for council news with the rate discount period ending, water meter readings to commence and a series of financial forecast...
Westy’s weather for September
By TERRY WEST
THE last week of August gave us some interesting weather with a series of upper and lower troughs bringing storms and some...
DSD ‘disaster’
By DANE LILLINGSTONE
IN A turbulent couple of weeks for tourism in the Southern Downs, Tracy Vellacott has resigned as the interim general manager of...
Reading Bug Egg
THE Red Cross and Warwick Central State School have teamed up to help encourage young kids to read.
The Reading Bug Egg project is a...
Answers close for public housing?
By DANE LILLINGSTONE
PUBLIC housing residents of the Southern Downs still in the dark about who will control their properties may finally get some news.
Southern...
Parents go free for chilli abuse
By DANE LILLINGSTONE
TWO parents who punished their young daughter by rubbing chillies in her hands and putting it in her food have escaped immediate...
Body found in Condamine
News briefs
A BODY was discovered in the Condamine River around 2pm on Tuesday.
An elderly woman’s body was retrieved from the river near Scots PGC...
Weekend of peace
By DANE LILLINGSTONE
THE Peace Project will be well and truly underway in the Southern Downs on the weekend of 5 and 6 September with...
Double celebration for Probus
By DANE LILLINGSTONE
ROSE City Warwick Probus Club have had an eventful meeting with a new president and a 95th birthday.
Don McKechnie announced that after...
Regional TV plea
YOU may have noticed on television and radio lately the ‘Save Our Voices’ commercials popping up.
Prime, WIN, Southern Cross and Imparja have launched a...
A big night of laughs
THE Four Funny Buggers blast their show, a blend of poetry and comedy, through the Warwick RSL on Saturday night for a whole night...
Cattle yardings surge at saleyards
Livestock markets rose quite well for cattle this week as well as our compatriots in the Dalby yards, seeing an incredible rise in numbers....
