Time Out

14 March 2025

Making 1M homes more electrically affordable

Non-profit organisation 1 Million Women is advocating for the government’s support in making at least 1 million households (around 10 percent of all Australian homes) electric and energy efficient within the next term of government. The delegation ha...

13 March 2025

Period dignity

Share the Dignity, a non-profit organisation aiming to end period poverty in Australia, is collecting period products and incontinence aids until March 31. These can be donated in the pink collection boxes at all Woolworths Supermarkets Australia-wid...

13 March 2025

Kilcoy’s blooming workshops open

On Saturday, March 29, they will be hosting a workshop presented by Jill Coombe from Searles. Jill is a qualified horticulturist and has been in the nursery and garden industry for over forty years in retail, wholesale, indoor plants, head groundsper...

13 March 2025

Feast your senses with gourmet food market

The markets will be taking place at the Caboolture Showgrounds on Saturday, March 15, before heading to the Woodford Showgrounds on Sunday, March 16. For those living on the southside of Somerset, Street Feast will be setting up at the Ipswich Turf C...

12 March 2025

Fight for service goes on

Resident of 13 years and Telstra customer, Wayne, said during the holiday season and on weekends when tourists drive into the Somerset Dam region, he might go days with only SOS service. He added the poor service was worsening each year as more peopl...

12 March 2025

Cornetts $80k loss

The store lost power at 2am on Saturday, March 8, and despite having a back up for a brief period during the day, had another outage later that night that lasted until Monday. The store was also closed Saturday and Sunday due to weather warnings and ...

11 March 2025

Battery proposal shrinks

The amendment was revealed when battery storage outfit Enervest lodged answers to further questions from Somerset Council.The scope of the project would now consist of approximately 387 battery enclosures and 155 inverters, with a storage capacity of...

11 March 2025

Thank you SES, Energex, councils, police and QFD

In Moreton Bay, over 700 tasks were recorded since 7pm Saturday night across with Moreton Bay SES.The SES is being supported by the Rural Fire Service Queensland, with all operational crews active and working as fast as they can to manage the situati...

11 March 2025

Hit hard, but the sting is in the tail

With Category 1 cyclone winds lashing the region on Saturday night, including 105km/h gusts in Redcliffe.Over 60,000 residents lost power over the weekend with Energex working to restore services this week.Somerset region also wasn’t safe, with over ...