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One person has died and another injured as a result of a light plane crash at Ball Bay, near Mackay, earlier this morning (December 24). Initial

Passenger, 83, dies after amateur-built aircraft crashes near Mackay on Friday morning while pilot survives with minor injuries

An 83-year-old man has died after a light plane crashed on Christmas Eve on a beach in central Queensland.

Premium Content Subscriber only A new mini-pharmacy will serve more than 1300 Mackay region residents and contribute about $7000 annually to the councils coffers. More than six months after the Mackay Regional Council signed off on the deal, the Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning has approved a plan to convert 25sq m of the Seaforth Community Hall into a pharmacy. Calen-based Vivid Horizons, which also owns Calen District Pharmacy, secured the tender...

The works, partly funded by the Federal Governments Building Better Regions Funding program, were recently awarded to a contractor and are expected to be completed by the end of June. They are part of the MRCs Mackay Regional Recreational Fishing Strategy 2017" aimed at improving facilities to meet "anticipated demand". "Given the local demand for boating facilities, the standard of these facilities is a regular focus of complaints from members of the public," MRC documents stated. Subscribe...

The final Daily Mercury print newspaper landed on peoples doorsteps and its pages turned for the last time. How do you send off a publication that has been around for 154 years with less than a months notice? Well, we did our best. We had one to two pages in every paper of the Daily Mercury for the final fortnight as well as an eight-page wraparound for the final issue on Saturday June 27, 2020. It was a team effort but special thanks goes to Loris Wall, Lucy Martin, Tony Martin, Heidi Pet...

Vandals have hacked, slashed and chainsawed through Mackay’s foreshore in a vain attempt to create ocean views and beach tracks. Mackay Regional Council said it had uncovered three extreme cases of vegetation vandalism at Grasstree Beach, Haliday Bay and Seaforth. A Development Services report revealed these areas were hot spots for vegetation vandals. It said the council has been in a two-year battle with unknown vandals at the Grasstree Beach esplanade and Haliday Bay, with “cont...