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Community stalwarts Tonka and Ranita Toholke will depart the North West and head to Perth early next month.

Show will go on without us, say keen volunteers

Tonka and Ranita Toholke believe that others will step up in their absence.

18 June, 2025

Good Shepherd Catholic College Year 11 student Xanda Chiauzzi is a finalist at next week’s Queensland Resources Council Indigenous Awards.

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Good Shepherd student in line for QRC recognition

Cookery Steward Lorna Fisher and aspiring baker Guido Pittis are preparing to test the city’s fruitcake making skills at the Mount Isa Show.

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How you can bake your way to this year’s Ekka

The Cathedral School principal Luke Baills with wife Steph and their children Emerson and Cooper at last year’s Richmond Field Days.

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Richmond Field Days celebrating 40 years

James Coghlan stops for a photo on the Burke Developmental Road.

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James Coghlan preparing for an epic finish

The much-loved ‘Drover’ plane will be removed from George McCoy Park, be given a restoration, and then moved to its new home at the Mount Isa Airport.

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It's official – Drover to find a new home at RFDS base

Mount Isa Meals on Wheels president Lucie Sanderson with Inez Bocos, who was awarded a certificate for 44 years of volunteer work from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at her 90th birthday celebrations on Saturday, and fellow Mount Isa Meals on Wheels volunteers Kim Kjaergaard, Dallas McLean-Lovell, Beryl Dennis and Graham Brennan with the organisation’s recent National Volunteer Week awards.

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Award-winning Meals on Wheels program needs a helping hand

Country music legend James Blundell is the headline act at Saturday’s North West Community Festival.

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James Blundell glad to be back on familiar ground

Clutching some of the trophies on offer at the pavilion competition are Mount Isa Agricultural Show Society committee members and event organisers Edna Russell, Anne Pittis, Georgia Heath, Lorna Fisher and Emma Scott.

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Mount Isa Show committee looking for community input

Renowned for pushing the boundaries of ballet, France’s leading contemporary choreographer Angelin Preljocaj masterfully reimagines Swan Lake.

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Mount Isa Civic Centre to screen Swan Lake performance

Mount Isa Salvation Army Chaplains Evelyn and Glen Charles are bringing some hope to the city through the annual Red Shield appeal. Assisting them are youngsters Joy and Ruth Yen, Sylvie Bower, Pascale Bower and Emily Doran.

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Mount Isa family fundraiser to boost the Salvos

Mount Isa’s Tash and Dave Hydon with Danish student Eva Ousager.

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Outback Queensland wins over Danish student

Alanna Philipson (left), principal project officer for the Connecting2u program, with the North West Hospital and Health Service’s allied health team.

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Health messaging service gives new parents a head start

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