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Premium Content Subscriber only With plenty of Gladstone business shutting their doors over the Easter long weekend, weve compiled a list of opening hours for businesses and services in the region. TRADING HOURS Shopping centres Stockland Gladstone: Closed Good Friday. Open Easter Saturday 9am-3pm, Easter Sunday 10am-4pm, Easter Monday 10am-4pm. Trading hours of individual stores may vary. Supermarkets Barney Point Butchery: Friday - Monday: Closed Coles (all stores): Good Friday Closed, Ea...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Gladstone man who emptied out his partner’s weed and snapped her mobile phone during an argument, appeared in Gladstone Magistrates Court on Friday. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to contravening a domestic violence order (aggravated offence) which was established on October 16, 2017. Police prosecutor Carl Spargo read the facts of the man’s case to the court and Magistrate Bevan Manthey. On February 8, police responded to...

Lindsey John Rodgers had been clean for more than two years before the incident.

Premium Content Subscriber only Gladstone residents have named the worst hooning hot spots in the region but police say the problem is not as bad as it seems. Calliope Road Policing Unit officer in charge Senior Sergeant Shaune English said residents often confused hooning with “loud engines”. “(Residents) can hear loud engines and think it’s going on somewhere around them, those ones are difficult to deal with because we don’t have any real idea where it is,” Sgt English said. �...

Premium Content Subscriber only A woman admitted to police she was addicted to drugs after being intercepted with a syringe in her bra, a court heard. Jana Dannielle Johnson, 35, pleaded guilty in the Gladstone Magistrates Court to one count of failing to take reasonable precautions in respect of a syringe or needle. Police prosecutor Sergeant Merrilyn Hoskins read the facts of Johnson’s case to the court and Acting Magistrate Ross Woodford. At 12am on Christmas Day, police patrolling Ba...

  This three bedroom house at Forrest Beach was on the market for $278,000 and is now under offer   In the Townsville region, Balgal Beach (median house value of $249,500) and Nelly Bay (units, $174,500) offer the cheapest escapes. Explore Property Townsville agent Allison Gough is marketing a number of properties in Balgal Beach. She said the price point was "absolutely attractive" to buyers, with many interstate buyers buying sight unseen or after viewing 3D videos. "At Balgal, ...

  This three bedroom house at Forrest Beach was on the market for $278,000 and is now under offer   In the Townsville region, Balgal Beach (median house value of $249,500) and Nelly Bay (units, $174,500) offer the cheapest escapes. Explore Property Townsville agent Allison Gough is marketing a number of properties in Balgal Beach. She said the price point was "absolutely attractive" to buyers, with many interstate buyers buying sight unseen or after viewing 3D videos. "At Balgal, ...

Queensland is home to the cheapest coastal suburb on Australia’s east coast mainland.

Premium Content Subscriber only After claiming the title of Gladstone’s best butcher, Port City Meats has revealed 2021 will be the year for expansion. Last week, T he Observer put the call out to find the city’s elite, and Port City Meats secured 44 per cent of the votes. Owner Scott Avis worked in the butcher industry for 15 years before he started his own venture in Clinton two years ago. Mr Avis said this year had been a good year for the small business after COVID-19 lifted t...

On June 3 police searched a Barney Point address where they located less than 0.1g of meth, six clipseal bags, 0.5g of marijuana, another 2.5g of marijuana, 17 Lyrica capsules, a homemade water pipe, a Dare coffee bottle fashioned into a utsenil and a red and brass coloured pipe. On June 11 at 7.50am police were called to a New Auckland address where they located Wehi who said she’d injected herself with three points of ice over the past 12 hours. An ambulance was called and she was place...