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Premium Content Subscriber only The Gympie region is continuing to claw its way toward being a major food bowl, with plans unveiled to transform a 39ha Wolvi property into a red claw crayfish farm. Owen and Kaitlyn Warhurst have asked for permission to transform the property, southwest of the Toolara Forest and on Counter Rd, into a farm capable of producing 6.5-8 tonne of crayfish a year. To do this they will need to build 3ha of grow-out ponds on the property, each with a 2200sq m surface area. The land itself has been extensively cleared due to its historical use in growing sugar cane.

Premium Content Subscriber only UPDATE 6PM: A woman is being flown to Sunshine Coast University Hospital after suffering serious injuries in a crash between a car and a truck on Tin Can Bay Rd on Monday afternoon. The two vehicles collided near the road's intersection with Neerdie Rd just before 4pm. Police said the car collided with the back of the truck, and then burst into flames. The woman, in her 40s, was suffered head and neck injuries; she was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition. Paramedics were called to the Toolara Forest crash just before 4pm. Picture: Alix Sween...

Community advocates are urging the Gympie region’s housing crisis be fixed as it continues to impact some of the highest socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the country. Census data captured in 2016 (the most recent available) revealed Tin Can Bay and the Toolara Forest areas were not only the most socio-economically disadvantaged in the Gympie region – based on its SEIFA (Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas) score – but in the country; 94 per cent of other Australian suburbs were better off. This was followed closely by Gympie city. The northern areas of Curra, Gun...