Fassifern Guardian Big chains, consumers and farmers submit to senate LAST December Queensland premier Steven Miles began his role with both guns blazing for the plight of farmers and consumers. Lara Hart 10 Apr 2024
Roads Stay of execution for forest ancient A 300 to 400-year-old Blue Gum stands close, too close, to Cainbable Creek Road in the southern Scenic Rim locality known as Cainbable. Wendy Creighton 13 Mar 2024
Roads Police put careless drivers and hoons on notice THE Ipswich Boonah Road and Beaudesert Boonah Road at the Coulson intersection has been the scene of multiple traffic accidents but police say it’s not considered a priority area of concern. Lara Hart 06 Mar 2024
Fassifern Guardian Car vs cow caution for country drivers WHEN the car her daughter was driving hit a cow, emergency nurse Mandy Holmes-Brown knew things could have been a whole lot worse. Lara Hart 28 Feb 2024
Fassifern Guardian Wall ‘embodiment’ of reasonable community expectation COUNCIL cannot compel the developer to stop the construction of the noise abatement fence bordering the rural residential subdivision beside the Ipswich Boonah Road, outside Boonah. Lara Hart 20 Dec 2023
Fassifern Guardian Fired up, Kooralbyn residents push new road issue LIVING in a rural town surrounded by crops and cattle is sublime until there is a bushfire and the only way out has been shut down. Lara Hart 06 Dec 2023
Roads Wet weather delays work on The Head Road THE re-opening of The Head Road at Carneys Creek has been delayed due to recent wet weather. Staff Writers 06 Dec 2023
Fassifern Guardian Canungra councillor says bypass is never off the radar THERE is a six letter word which guarantees a conversation when visiting Canungra and that’s ‘bypass’. Lara Hart 22 Nov 2023
Fassifern Guardian Sound barrier bears brunt of Boonah residents’ anger A SOUND barrier fence under construction on a new housing estate outside Boonah is generating noise of a different kind as Boonah residents call out governing bodies for allowing it to be erected without community consultation, saying its ‘scale and intensity’ was inappropriate for the area. Lara Hart 15 Nov 2023
Fassifern Guardian Battling through Canungra traffic CANUNGRA business owners whose shops face the busy main road have a front row seat to the mayhem one way in and out has created. Lara Hart 15 Nov 2023
Roads Kooralbyn to Boonah link fight goes on AN ACTION group formed by Boonah and Kooralbyn residents who want a road that links the towns are no closer to resolution than they were three years ago at the start of their campaign. Lara Hart 01 Nov 2023
Fassifern Guardian Roadkill collectors keep bitumen clear WHOSE job is it to pick up animals that die on our roads? It’s a valid question and no doubt one most drivers will have pondered when passing a large carcass one day and the next day it’s gone. Lara Hart 25 Oct 2023
Roads Council brings AI to the streets SCENIC Rim Council is using artificial intelligence to assess road networks and send feedback as to whether work is needed or not. Lara Hart 20 Sep 2023
Roads Changes ahead for speed zones on Beaudesert Boonah Road NEW speed signage will soon be installed on the Beaudesert Boonah Road, in particular on the approach to Beaudesert. Staff Writers 12 Jul 2023
Roads $3M push for Kooralbyn and Beaudesert road funding SCENIC Rim Regional Council has made a bid for more than $3 million in grant funding to upgrade a section of Kooralbyn Road and an intersection in Beaudesert. Wendy Creighton 05 Jul 2023
Roads Designs on Duck Creek Road to win funds for reconstruction DUCK Creek Road, the volunteer built alternate route up to Lamington National Park, is to undergo design work. Wendy Creighton 14 Jun 2023
Roads Five ‘big picture’ Scenic Rim transport priorities raised with TMR GETTING athletes and spectators to and from Lake Wyaralong during the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics, a rail line to Beaudesert and a Canungra bypass are top of the Scenic Rim Regional Council’s list of ‘big picture’ transport priorities. Wendy Creighton 07 Jun 2023
Roads Kangaroo road carnage elicits plea for greater driver care TWENTY-five kangaroos and ten joeys – that was the tally of call outs to Scenic Rim Wildlife, 25 days into the month of May. Wendy Creighton 31 May 2023
Roads The Head Road to re-open in September THE Scenic Rim Regional Council has revealed that reconstruction work on The Head Road is progressing to the point that it anticipates the major tourist route will re-open in September, this year, “weather permitting”. Wendy Creighton 10 May 2023