Euan Wright News Today

FAIRMONT — Marion County Schools currently has 174 more people on payroll than its state budget allocation can fund — a cost of around $13.4 million.

Premium Content Subscriber only Whitsunday Police officer in charge sergeant Nathan Blain said police had arrested and charged five people in the past week for committing public nuisance in the Safe Night Precinct, and would continue to take a “high vigilance” approach to such behaviour in a bid to “curb assault rates”. The five arrests Sgt Blain referred to were in addition to the following five men who appeared Proserpine Magistrates Court on public nuisance charges. Euan Wright plead...