Wednesday 24 April, 2013 Flinders Shire Council loader driver Bryan Corrigan can list all 10 loaders he's worked on in his 44 year career at Council as if he were talking about the names of his...

Thursday 4 April, 2013 SHE has not lived in Hughenden long but when Amanda McNamara designed her award-winning logo for the Shire's 150 th birthday, it was community acts of kindness that...

Tuesday 2 April, 2013 Many producers are now feeling the pinch as the dry season starts to set in with little relief from the wet season this summer.  Assistance may be available to...

Monday 25 March, 2013 Flinders Shire Council is ensuring residents have a final resting place that keeps them comfortable for eternity. Stage one of the Hughenden Cemetery expansion is almost...

Monday 25 March, 2013 The once empty dirt block on Betts Street in Hughenden has become a coloured landscape of painted buildings and gardened countryside as the official opening of the Hughenden...

Monday 25 March, 2013 They may live on the Australian Dinosaur Trail but Flinders Shire Councillors are set to prove their fitness hasn't become fossilised. Councillor Jane Charuba...

Monday 25 March, 2013 Pictures dating back more than a century are proving to be worth more than a thousand words in the Flinders Shire Council Historical Photograph Project. The reproduced...

The famous "Lions Club Clock" in the middle of the intersection of Brodie & Gray Street is to be relocated to the traffic island in front of the Flinders Discovery Centre. After...

Tuesday 5 February, 2013 A DECADE long dream is just weeks from becoming a reality as the final bricks and mortar are placed on the Hughenden Centre for the Aged. Construction on the centre...

Saturday January 26, 2013 AFTER almost 15 years of presenting the Australia Day Awards it was a change of pace for former Flinders Shire Mayor Brendan McNamara when he stood on the other side...

Wednesday 23 January, 2013 ABOUT $20,000 in shading has ensured the Hughenden Memorial Aquatic Centre is now almost as cool outside the water as it is in.   The four new umbrella...

Wednesday January 8, 2013   THERE was no way of missing what all the fuss was about at the official opening of the new-look Flinders Shire Council Library – the main feature, a...

Friday November 16, 2012 MELBOURNE has provided Justin O’Neill with a new home, a football career with premiership winning NRL team Storm and an introduction to girlfriend, model...

Tuesday November 13, 2012 HAVING a stiff upper lip may be a useful characteristic for any politician but this month Flinders Shire Council Councillors will show that a hairy one can be just as...

Thursday November 8, 2012 THE Flinders Shire has been given $9000 in funding to ensure its 150th birthday mixes with the best celebrations in the state next year. The...

Thursday November 8, 2012   CONFIDENCE in the possibility of a Hughenden-based abattoir has been reinforced after a positive public response to the Flinders River Ag Precinct (FRAP) water...

Monday October 22, 2012 QUEENSLAND Council safety officers covered an area almost twice the size of Victoria when they travelled to attend the largest ever regional safety officer meeting in...

Friday October 19, 2012 HUGHENDEN has the largest potential cattle supply in the study area, according to a report issued by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry...

Monday October 15, 2012 More than 330 people, including seven families on a single day, visited the Flinders Discovery Centre during the Queen’s Birthday long weekend.   It was a last...

Monday October 15, 2012   WITH her steel warrior-style design, there is little wonder Hughenden businesswoman Katherine Egan triumphed in the battle for `most creative bra' at the...

Wednesday September 19, 2012   THE Queensland Government has responded to landholder feedback by today announcing an extension to the tender period for unallocated water...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 THE State Government decision to scrap funding for Emergency Services Cadet Program has taken away a community program that keeps 65 per cent of Hughenden’s...

Monday September 17, 2012   FORMER Hughenden State School student Braden Honnery has taken out the top prize in a national culinary competition. The 20-year-old will now jet off to...

Monday September 17, 2012   THE Flinders Shire Council Budget for 2012-2013 was set on the 13th September 2012 and provided for a 4% increase in general rates, 2% increase in water...

Friday September 14, 2012 THE community spirit has been honoured in the naming of the Hughenden aged persons facility, with the two major benefactors recognised. The Harry Chivers Recreational...

Friday September 14, 2012 FLINDERS Shire Council Mayor Greg Jones returned to the office in time for the Budget meeting this week, after a more than three month absence from his home in...

Tuesday August 21, 2012 CLOSE to 150 young gymnasts are expected to tumble in to the tiny town of Hughenden for the 10th Hughenden Gymnastic Junior Invitational Competition at the end of...

Monday August 6, 2012 IT took just one hour for the 900 nominations opened for the Hughenden Campdraft to be filled, with a further 200 on the waiting list. The processing speed for such...

Friday August 8, 2012   THE intricate carvings of headstones dating back to 1891 are being brought back to life as part of a Hughenden Cemetery restoration project that began in...

Tuesday July 31, 2012   THE June Hughenden visitor record has been smashed by almost 1000 people, causing a town-wide accommodation shortage on a number of occasions last month. ...

Tuesday July 24, 2012   North-West Queensland farmers and irrigation project stakeholders have praised the LNP State Government for doubling the amount of water previously permitted to be held...

Monday July 23, 2012 ABOUT 100 people saw how successful cotton farming could be in North West Queensland after visiting the only cotton farm in the region – Silver Hills Station, north of...

Tuesday 17 July 2012 THE first mounds of dirt have been shifted in the creation of the Hughenden Aged Persons Accommodation and with it signs that the 10 year community dream is becoming a...

Wednesday July 11, 2012   THE bid by the QR National Hughenden workers to keep the local maintenance depot open has been successful, with QR National’s month-long decision making process...

Tuesday 10 July, 2012   HUGHENDEN residents will be able to Shake A Leg with multi-talented performer Boori Monty Pryor just months before work starts on a documentary inspired by his book, My...

Thursday July 5, 2012   A TOWNSVILLE golfer made the 300km trek west on Sunday to support Torrens Creek Golf Club’s first `official day’ since facing...

TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN - TRUE NORTH Saturday June 28, 2012 FEELING like a Goodyear blimp at Porcupine Gorge last year pricked Tom Thompson's pride. A locomotive driver from Hughenden, he watched...

Thursday June 28, 2012 NOTHING says Christmas like sitting around a fireplace rugged up sipping eggnog and eating pudding – except if you live in Australia, where Christmas Day usually means...

Wednesday June 27, 2012   ITS development has made Hughenden one of the top horse performance locations in the State and now the Hughenden Outback Arena has been upgraded again to ensure...

Tuesday June 19, 2012   WORK started at the end of last month (May 2012) to seal some of the remaining gravel sections of the Kennedy Developmental Road or ‘Hann...

Mens Porcupine Gorge   Abdeihay Battel 40:33 Chris White 41:46 Struan Lamont 44:18 Arnstein Prytz 44:41   Ladies   ...

TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN Friday June 15, 2012 TO read about 81-year-old John Harris's adventures in the Porcupine Gorge Challenge CLICK HERE

THE NORTHERN MINER Friday June 15, 2012 A QUEENSLAND Rail National Hughenden employee believes the proposed changes by the company’s head office are...

Wednesday June 13, 2012 WHEN people hear that John Harris walks eight kilometres every day before a full day working on his cattle property near Corfield in western Queensland they can’t help...

Wednesday 13 June, 2012 A MENTOR is defined as a wise and trusted teacher and so when Flinders Shire Council Water and Sewerage Foreman Glen McIntosh took home the ‘Mentor of the...

Tuesday March 12, 2012   WITH some of the best tracts of farming soils in Queensland, a reliable water source and landholders with the necessary expertise, land, capital and...

Tuesday June 12, 2012 A PINK, fluffy scarf is not what you’d expect to see on the shelf at a library, but Miss Lily's fabulous pink feather boa is currently intriguing visitors at the...

Thursday June 7, 2012   QR National Hughenden is fighting to protect a number of local jobs under threat from a head office restructure.   There are almost 100 rail-related...

QR National is currently in first stage consultations about proposed structural changes to the company, which may include voluntary and involuntary redundancies in Hughenden.   ...

Monday June 4, 2012 TWO of the world’s top Wikimedia executives have arrived in Hughenden to turn a group of lucky locals in to Wikipedians - the people who write and edit the pages for ...