Rural Life

COULD the highly destructive weather event on Christmas night have been a tornado, a series of tornados, a vortex or an ‘extreme’ series of thunderstorms?…

A COUNCIL project using community action to save koalas has won a Federal Government grant worth almost $180,000. Described as a ‘conservation and recovery effort’,…

FOUR days, 59 koalas detected – that’s the findings of a University of Queensland survey of the population of the endangered marsupial in the vicinity…

IT’S well established that after three La Nina Summers, El Nino conditions will prevail this Summer. In a seeming contradiction, rainfall totals for the normally…

KALBAR resident, Neil Pennell, is a keen student of meteorology and hydrology, so it is not unusual for him to follow the path of a…

BEAUDESERT State High School teachers Anthony Brieschke and Amy Bentley have been named among the top 30 teachers in Queensland. Both are teachers in the…

IT’S the time of the year when hay bales get makeovers, and everyone is invited to Kalbar to experience everything the town has to offer.…

THE modern history of the Boonah Show will be woven into the Stenzel family history book. It’s inevitable. It’s one of the projects Beth Hern…

WITH hot dry weather predicted as Australia moves into an El Nino weather pattern, those with water tanks are starting to count every drop as…

The fire ant problem is threatening to spiral out of control in some of the suburbs in the Scenic Rim’s neighbouring local authorities of Ipswich…

THE government has launched the country’s first National Feral Deer Action Plan, detailing three key goals underpinned by actions it hopes will curb escalating deer…

LIFE’S stresses affect everyone and when you’re a teenager it can be hard to find a sympathetic and non-judgemental ear, but at Beaudesert State High…