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Premium Content Subscriber only With plenty of Gladstone business shutting their doors over the Easter long weekend, we've 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, Easter Saturday to Monday 9am - 6pm Drake's IGA Sun Valley: Friday to Monday: 7am-9pm Foodworks Wes...

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 a disturbance which involved the defendant and the aggrieved at Brisbane St, Barney Point. Both pa...

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. “Sometimes people might think it’s a problem but in reality it’s usually nuisance cars that don...

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 Barney Point intercepted Johnson for the purpose of a search related to dangerous drugs. The court he...