History

News STONES inscripted with Phoenician carvings which are believed to herald the coming of a deity have been dug up on a Far Northern cane farm.

News REVEALED: The grand history of the Coffs Coast's pubs and hotels over the years has been brought into the spotlight in this interactive map.

Horses A PUNTER who has placed over seven figures on Winx through the mare’s career broke his own eye-watering record on Saturday.

News BOOZE buses and Sunday sessions sound like modern-day antics, however Toowoomba resident Jim Beh is here to set the record straight.

News WHAT was then a sleepy seaside town was shaken on November 13, 1966, when a teenage girl was shot to death in a flat.

News STEP back in time and take a look at the early days of the Clarence Valley, and how mining helped to shape our history

Community World War II was not the time to be growing up in Germany with Jewish blood but it's where the Fraser Coast 90-year-old's remarkable tale begins.

Rugby Union EXPERIENCED Number 8 keeps the lid on the side, as he stares down third grand final appearance for the Buccs since 2002.

Business Trip down memory lane in the church's past. It was closed in 2002 and has been re-opened as a wedding and events venue.

News One of Grafton's oldest buildings has an intriguing history. Go behind the ornate 1800s doors and bullet-ridden walls in The Daily Examiner's exclusive tour

Offbeat HE was for a while one of the nation’s most promising politicians but Thomas Ley’s fall would end with him convicted of murder and sentenced to hang.

Education WHEN officials entered this abandoned KFC restaurant in America, they were finger-lickin surprised at what they discovered.

News AUGUST 18 is a date in Lieutenant Colonel Harry Smith's life that he can't turn his back on, but neither will he celebrate it.

Offbeat 'The fact that they were old and not digital was what attracted me to them'

Offbeat Teacher finds rare fossilised teeth from 25 million-year-old prehistoric mega-shark at the beach.

News AN HISTORIC Coast motel is in its final days before being demolished next week for townhouses.

Feature YES, we know, you can’t exist without taking your phone everywhere. So imagine a time when it was stuck to the wall. Here’s what life was like before smartphones...

Education 104-year-old Linda Paddon’s early life reads like an adventure novel, with torpedoed ships, WWI bombing raids and even a link to the ill-fated Titanic.

Lifestyle PLAY-DOH was first manufactured in the 1930s as a wallpaper cleaner before being rebranded into a children’s toy.

Offbeat The group took 1.5 hours to reach Rockhampton from Mt Morgan .... It was a long trip from there to Mackay.

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