After years of approving six-figure fee discounts for developers, including a $1.2m waiver for a project that never went ...

Local conservation groups have worked to protect turtle nesting habitats along the Mackay coast for more than 30 years, ...

New councillor Anne Baker, former mayor at Isaac, brought attention to the figure during her first meeting. This masthead asked Mackay council if any of the 29 listings were to hire multiple people ...

Mackay has enough residential land to last decades – but a council housing strategy says the dominance of large detached homes is creating a growing mismatch between the types of homes being built and ...

Councillors are recommended to approve a 24-hour servo, grocery store and tourist park — despite objections over traffic, noise and the loss of prime agricultural land.

Mackay Regional Council said investigations were underway after thousands of dead tilapia, a freshwater pest introduced from Africa and the Middle East, were found belly up sending “putrid” smells ...

THE schools with Mackay's highest teacher student ratios have been revealed with St Mary's Catholic Primary School rating as the school with the most students per teacher. See how all schools compare.

On paper, the Mackay council is filling 142 jobs, but only a fraction are listed on its website despite the roles making up 10 per cent of the total workforce. New councillor Anne Baker, former mayor ...