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Ben Carr

Resources Safety and Health Queensland are investigating the incident. Picture file

A man is in a coma with burns to 60 per cent of his body.

AWU says Glencore needs to answer "tough questions" after smelter incident

A new community led crime prevention initiative will start in Doomadgee. Picture file/Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council

Gunawuna Jungai have called on government for urgent funding.

New crime prevention funding awarded to Doomadgee program

A huge crowd attended the Mount Isa ANZAC Day Dawn Service. Picture by Mount Isa City Council

Hundreds gather for ANZAC Day services in Mount Isa

Customers disembark Bonza airlines' inaugural flight from the Sunshine Coast into Newcastle Airport in March, 2023. Picture by Jonathan Carroll.

One weekly Bonza flight from Mount Isa will start next month.

Katter slams Bonza communication after Mount Isa services cut

Samantha Campbell

Queensland's youngest male councillor Johnty O'Brien has taken his seat on Carpentaria Shire Council. Photo supplied.

Carpentaria Shire Council welcomes Johnty O'Brien.

Queensland's youngest male councillor elected in the Gulf

Alison Paterson

Amanda Turner shares a batch of ANZAC biscuits with Mt Isa RSL president Troy Hartas, a 20 year veteran who served in the Royal Australian Navy and retired a petty officer systems supervisor operator. Picture: Supplied

A Mt Isa QCWA member shares her grandma's ANZAC biscuit recipe.

Mt Isa QCWA member shares her grandma's no-fail ANZAC biscuit recipe

Troy Hartas speaks at Mount Isa's 2023 ANZAC day service. Insert: Troy's grandfather Gordon Travers was a WWII Navy veteran. Picture North Queensland History Collections

For Troy Hartas, ANZAC Day can be an emotional time.

'The love of a regional community': Why ANZAC Day in Mount Isa is special

Steph Allen

The original Roobock Man of the Julia Creek Dirt n Dust Festival 88-year-old Fred Schneider from Charters Towers. Picture: Jo Thieme Photography

Visitors from far and wide turned out to Julia Creek to compete in or enjoy the rodeo action fun.

Record numbers at Dirt n Dust Festival

Overall youth offences fell 10.7 per cent in the first quarter compared with that period in 2023. (Jason O'BRIEN/AAP PHOTOS)

Youth co-responder teams will be extended to more regions and a crime task force made permanent in the Queensland government's crackdown on youth crime.

Youth crime models made permanent, extended in Qld

Mount Isa's Road to Rodeo was set to run on Saturday, May 11. Organisers have cancelled the event. Picture supplied

The one-day event was scheduled for Saturday, May 11.

Organisers cancel Road to Rodeo event citing rising operational costs

News

Lydia Lynch

Each year we pause on National Police Remembrance Day to&nbsp;honour the sacrifice of police.  To pay tribute to the great work of Mount Isa’s cops&nbsp;we dug through our photo archives –&nbsp;enjoy!

Former Mount Isa Superintendent Danny Black. 

How Mount Isa police used to catch speeders back in 1970.

Constable Dave Barker with one of the 20 lost children found at the end of rodeo week in 1978. 

Sgt Alan Dredge at the PCYC IN 1999. He was stationed at the Mount Isa PCYC for 12 years. 

Jean Molloy became the first female depositions clerk at the Mount Isa Courthouse in 1971.

Sgt Ken Keeys and police dog Toledo make a visit to Central State School in 1990.

Errol Graham, Mick Brown, Ross Garrett and Errol Walker at 1992 Mount Isa police awards. 

Senior Sergeant Col Henderson left the Mount Isa Police Station during the piping ceremony in 2016.

Constable Eustace and Sgt Searle with Mount Isa OIC Sen Sgt Jim McKenna in June 1973.

Cops from the north west meet up. Peter Cahill from Burketown, Bob Goad from Birdsville, Steve Wardrobe from Mornington Island, Bob Blucher from Karumba and Bob Zerner from Mount Isa.

Inspector Vaudin and Mrs Vaudin hold a set of copper goblets presented to them in 1977. Others are Mayor Franz Born, Mount Isa MP Mr Bertoni, Mrs Born and Sen Sgt Jim Stanford.

More than 180 people attened a farewell party for Mount Isa OIC Des Chippindall at the Concordia Club in the 1970s. Des is remembered for his work during north west floods. In the photo police social club president Jack Williams and secretary Pat Lawton with Inspector Chippindall and his wife. 

Commissioner Ian Stewart shake hands with outgoing Inspector Trevor Kidd during his piping ceremony in 2017.

Mount Isa's relieving police chief Inspector Ted Breene handed over control to the district's new Inspector Damien Howard in 1975.

Constable John Fox and investigations OIC Det Sen Constable Barry Johnson examine a safe at the Mount Isa RSL that was cut open with oxy-acetylene in December 1971. 

Mount Isa OIC Tom Gall farewells a Sydney squad who were in Mount Isa investigating a $500,000 Qantas bomb hoax in 1971.

Police officer Nancy Kennedy shows the new OIC Sen Sgt Sid Wilson and new Inspector's clerk Sgt Alan Beutel around the station in November 1973. 

This little croc got his rights read to him by a local cop.

Mount Isa cops McLeod and Stanford check out some pipes.

Det Sgt Dave Austin from the CIB hosted an armed robbery seminar for Mount Isa businesses in 1995.

Det. Sen. Constable Deborah Wilson worked as a plain clothes police officer in Mount Isa - she now solves cold cases.

Sgt Eric Hooper shows off a ski used by Kenny Wyld during an accident at Lake Moondarra in September 1972. Wyld almost drowned in the incident. 

Crown Prosecutor Garry Forno, Det Terry Price, Chris Caldwell and Det Barry Johnson share a few beers after winning a case in the Mount Isa District Court in 1970.

New cops Det Sen Sgt Mick Jacobs and Inspector Bob Welch arrived in July 1995. 

Constable Mark Barber watches over a crime scene. 

Paul Brady, Senior Constable Kerri Peff and Constable Donny Vojvodic at the old police beat. 

Two well-known Isa cops Sgt Eric Cooper and First Class Constable Noel Ragh were farewelled in 1975 by Inspector Ted Breene. 

Isa OIC Sid Wilson with Burketown Sgt Stephen Cosgrove who holds a jaw-bone which was used as a weapon against him during a riot on Mornington Island in the mid 70s. 

Each year we pause on National Police Remembrance Day to&nbsp;honour the sacrifice of police. <br>

To pay tribute to the great work of Mount Isa’s cops&nbsp;we dug through our photo archives –&nbsp;enjoy!

Mount Isa police throwback gallery

Mount Isa police flashback gallery

To pay tribute to the great work of Mount Isa’s cops we dug through our photo archives –...

Mount Isa police throwback gallery

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