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Premium Content Subscriber only An image of a crude sign warning students about their attendance rate at a Gladstone region primary school has sparked concern in the community. A school noticeboard outside of Mount Larcom State School stated "Every day c---s, attendance is very important." But the image, which was posted on social media on Tuesday and generated a lot of interest, has been confirmed as an image taken about four years ago. One user wrote they were not surprised someone did this. "I was at Mt Larcom three days ago, not surprised someone did this to a school sign," they said...

Quick, look over your shoulder. That flicker of movement on the Australian horizon is the electric vehicle revolution poking its head up with the dawning sun. The latest electric car charging centre at Gympie which opened this week. Credit:Energy Queensland. In Australia, electric vehicle sales quietly tripled in 2019 – although the numbers are still small, according to the Electric Vehicle Council. That year, sales tripled from 2216 to 6718 and a further 3226 electric cars were sold in the first six months of 2020, despite new car sales slumping 20 per cent because of COVID-19. In Queen...

"I don't go out in the trucks much anymore," Pat said. "When he was fighting those fires I was in incident control and was arranging crews to go out to the fires. Pat and Errol Noye have volunteered for the Turkey Beach Rural Fire Brigade since 2006 and in August they will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. "There a couple of times when you hear on the radio things getting hairy and it can get quite stressful." Last year Errol was deployed to fight the New South Wales' bushfires. "I did worry about him then because the fires are much more intense than what we have here," she sai...

Kev and Del Smaldon are pretty excited - and with good reason. Their business, Mount Larcom Tourist Park, has just been named a finalist in the national Grey Nomad Awards. The news further cements the Gladstone region's reputation as a bucket list destination for mature-age tourists. The Mt Larcom Tourist Park has been shortlisted in the 2020 Best Grey Nomad Small Caravan Park category. The winners will be announced on March 2 at a celebratory event on the Sunshine Coast. Conveniently located on the national highway west of Gladstone, the Mt Larcom Tourist Park at Balfour St offers nea...

The man was taken to Gladstone Hospital