ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE Adrian Taylor DID you hear the one about the Irish bull who walked into a bar? Well, perhaps rampaged into a bar is a more accurate description for the impact that the two-tonne bovine had in the Porter House Tavern...
Byline: Lorna Stevenson SOME readers might remember Darrel and Margaret Richter from the Maryborough District Antique Motor Club and their story on their 1930 Model A Ford. For Darrel, the Model A Fords have always epitomised the way things were...
RODERICK MAKIM roderick.makim@frasercoastchronicle.com.au A MAN who pleaded guilty to killing his friend through dangerous driving was able to walk free yesterday. Takashi Nukuto, 31, received a suspended sentence for his part in the tragic...
THEY say a change is as good as a holiday. So that means 18 holidays await on the newly-launched Sunshine Coast Hinterland Gallery Trail. Eighteen galleries from Landsborough in the south to Eumundi in the north and Kenilworth to the west have come...
ONE minute Constable Glenn Walker was settling into life on the beat and finding his feet as a first-year police officer at Hervey Bay's station. The next, his swollen, blackened face was being beamed across national news as he fought for his life...
Clementine Norton clementine.norton@frasercoastchronicle.com.au ENTREPRENEUR Aussie Rob's project to turn a Toogoom island into a five-star lifestyle resort has been abandoned after he encountered a number of legal problems pertaining to the...
TEACHING teens life skills is a necessary challenge for parents to take on board. With the many distractions faced by teens from school, sport and their social life, it could appear that we need to be gentle and perhaps not burden them with an unnecessary...
MINING giant New Hope Corporation is steaming ahead with the Colton Mine Project and is now confidently predicting the first hard coking coal from the mine will be loaded on to railway wagons before the end of 2013. New Hope has just concluded a...
ASKED why he wanted to become a police officer and Const Walker says aall the usual reasonsa. aBecause I wanted to help out the community, because I wanted a solid careera[degrees]all of those things everyone says but it's true.a That decision...
THE small group of Colton Mine protestors gathered in Aldershot believe I have deserted them in their fight to stop the mine going ahead. At least that's what they have said in an email sent out yesterday to their supporters. They say that my...
Clementine Norton clementine.norton@frasercoastchronicle.com.au THE MAN found guilty of killing hitch-hiker Stephen John Ward has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter, while his accomplice will spend at least the next two...
SYDNEY: No one can say Tropfest founder and director John Polson isn't dedicated. The day following the birth of his second daughter, the sleep-deprived filmmaker was on the phone to talk about changes to the 20th anniversary of Tropfest in February....