Tara Miko's Activity

January 2020

Published a story

Photos reveal the damage on a Central Queensland rail line after a train derailed between Dysart and Middlemount.

PHOTOS: Aurizon coal train derails in Central Queensland

20th Jan 2020 12:43 PM

Published a story

Timeline of how bones were found to what police will be looking into

BONES FIND: Inside the crime scene on Pioneer River

20th Jan 2020 5:00 AM

Published a story

A SKULL was found among skeletal remains found partially buried on the banks of a the Pioneer River, suggesting to police they could be human.

Skull among bones found on Pioneer River bank

17th Jan 2020 9:13 PM

Published a story

‘I want to know what happened to my son... I would hate to see someone else go through this.’

‘What happened to my son?’: Broken dad fights for answers

15th Jan 2020 5:00 AM

Voted in a poll

Is it too soon for supermarkets to be selling hot cross buns?

Published a story

A MAN found dead inside the crumpled cab of a ute may have been there almost a month before a travelling couple found him by chance.

Police probe truckie's death and horror bridge find

9th Jan 2020 5:00 AM

Published a story

Police are trying to track the final movements of a Collinsville man found dead in a crashed ute in the Whitsunday region.

Man’s body found under bridge month after last sighting

8th Jan 2020 12:23 PM

Published a story

Bystanders who pulled a young boy from a backyard pool credited with saving lad’s life.

Water safety reminder after lad pulled from backyard pool

6th Jan 2020 5:41 PM

Published a story

Having moved north from Toowoomba, a great city but a landlocked one, I was thrilled to see plans for the Mackay waterfront priority development area

OUR SAY: Your vision for Mackay is one worth fighting for

4th Jan 2020 5:00 AM

December 2019

Published a story

Police spent the night negotiating with a man holed up inside a Mackay apartment complex after responding to reports of a disturbance.

Man surrenders to police after tense six-hour standoff

29th Dec 2019 9:22 PM

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Tara joined the company in 2010 after graduating with a journalism and politics degree from Griffith University in Brisbane. After first working in newspapers in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, she joined the team at The Chronicle in 2013. In September that year she took over the reins of the Rural Weekly, and has been on the crime desk in Toowoomba since 2015.