The Riverside Expressway, Western Fwy, two city bridges, two busways and a dozen other major roads will be shut from early this Sunday for the finale of the annual Tour de Brisbane bicycle event. SEE THE LIST OF CLOSURES
A giant, invasive Chinese oyster has been detected for the first time in Brisbane waterways and on Bribie Island. Sadly for oyster lovers, experts are warning people not to eat them.
Westsiders are furious after a park was left a boggy mess during a four-day netball carnival involving 2000 players. Organisers will have to pay for re-turfing, but some residents and a councillor say such a large event should never have gone ahead at the site.
A Brisbane amateur theatre company will lower the curtain on its final production in June at the building it has called home for 70 years. But its president says the show will go on.
Two tour boats so iconic they once were used to help market Brisbane to the world are up for sale, on Facebook Marketplace, for a bargain price.
A popular fixture on the CBD hospitality scene, known for its wings, beers and whiskey, has suddenly closed after 10 years with no reason given.
A Victorian-based group which retrains retired racehorses for use in therapeutic riding has been announced as the new operator of a 60-year-old westside riding for the disabled centre.
A southside church says it has no plans to launch a new high school on a busy, parked-out street and denies claims it will be run by an ancient, ultraconservative Catholic movement.
Fed-up small retailers on an iconic inner-city high street say anti-social behaviour is now worse than five years ago when ex-Deputy Premier Jackie Trad held a safety summit.
A Labor councillor today conceded defeat in a Brisbane ward the party held for 72 years after a monster 22 per cent swing against her. It came as a senior LNP councillor has hung on in a northside ward by several hundred votes.
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