Volunteer firefighters were woken shortly after 3.30am with news the historic Burketown Pub was ablaze. Part of Burketown's history was lost when the town's only pub was destroyed by fire last ...

Residents in north-west Queensland's Gulf Country say the loss of the historic Burketown pub two weeks ago is taking a toll on the town and its economy. The century-old Burketown Hotel was ...

The Burke Shire Council has approved plans to rebuild the Burketown Pub in Queensland's Gulf Country, after the century-old building was gutted by fire earlier this year. Police are still treating ...

The wet season arrived with a bang in the Gulf country this week and the Burketown pub has posted a video of what it has done to the local country. Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since ...

Evacuees were taken to nearby Doomadgee, or flown to Mount Isa, more than 300km away. Burketown Pub manager Melissa Looker said the community had started to pull together. “It’s a great little ...

Around September or October each year, Burketown in outback Australia becomes ... a Morning Glory is on the way may be in the town's pub: when condensation forms on the beer glasses in the evening ...

Right now, people are gathering at that pub, in the remote north Queensland settlement of Burketown, waiting for the call of the Morning Glory. And it’s way bigger, and rarer, than that other ...

The flooding, caused by heavy rain, has been particularly severe in Burketown, a small community in the north of the state about 1,300 miles northwest of the state capital Brisbane. Aerial images ...