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Premium Content Subscriber only Widgee Engineerings five-and-a-half-year fight to stay at its Upper Widgee Road home of almost 30 years has finally ended with the company given permission to stay by the states Planning and Environment court. The ruling brings and end to a battle which the company had been engaged in since 2015, first with Gympie Regional Council and then in the courts. Widgee Engineering owner Di Saal said on Friday that the saga cost her and husband Peter about $600,000. T...

Premium Content Subscriber only MORE than 100mm of rain pummelled parts of the Gympie region last night leaving some residents stranded at home this morning. To the south west of Kilkivan, 110mm reportedly fell at Mt View at Cinnabar, while 90mm near Glastonbury was enough to make crossing Glastonbury Creek impossible this morning. Officially Gympie received 31mm in the past 24 hours from yesterday until 9am this morning according to the Bureau of Meteorology, Kandanga received 67mm, Borumba...