Mount Jukes News Today

A journalist's journey of doing what they love in North Queensland.

A love of traditional Italian cuisine, country views and local produce has put a paddock to plate family...

A love of traditional Italian cuisine, country views and local produce has put a paddock to plate family...

A love of traditional Italian cuisine, country views and local produce has put a paddock to plate family...

Area hosted a string of small mines back in the day.

People visiting a Whitsundays beach on Monday were horrified when they spotted a crocodile lurking in the waters.

A third generation Mackay cane farmer has been fined $42,000 after polluting a popular fishing spot with demolition waste because he was trying to stop erosion to his Mount Jukes property. The offending which spanned seven months from June 2019 to January 2020 was labelled a “serious example” of environmental and development breaches. Rodney Victor Vassallo deposited 180 to 320 tonnes of demolition scrap over a 170-metre stretch at Constant Creek. The waste material included bricks, concret...

Police have been captured pulling thousands of dollars in cash out of a north Queensland mattress following a major drug raid that saw six people arrested this past weekend. Officers from Mackay raided the Landsdowne Road, West Mackay home on Sunday, allegedly seizing drugs, a car and more than $180,000 in cash. Bodycam footage from the raid has shown officers discovering a hole in a mattress in one of the beds. They pull out an air-sealed bag of money. READ MORE: Bags of cash were pulled from...

A magistrate has adjourned the case against a third generation Mackay cane farmer who polluted a popular fishing spot with construction waste so environmental officers can inspect the location. Rodney Victor Vassallo, through his barrister, told a court he had taken steps to clean up the 180 to 320 tonnes of demolition scrap he deposited over a 170-metre stretch at Constant Creek. The scaps included bricks, concrete blocks with reinforced steel bars and PVC piping. Mackay Magistrate Court heard...

Telstra has revealed the cause of a widespread mobile outage in the Mackay region, which left some customers without service for more than three days. Areas affected last week included Mackay, the Northern Beaches, Habana, parts of Hay Point, parts of the Pioneer Valley, Mount Martin, Mount Jukes, Cape Hillsborough and St Bees Island. Telstra confirmed the outage to the Daily Mercury on February 24, but services were not restored until 4am on February 28. "The cause was a fault in some of ...