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Purple scooters are returning to Brisbane streets after ousted Beam Mobility merged with Neuron Mobility.

Paint it purple: E-scooters from ousted company return to Brisbane

The e-scooters and e-bikes once owned by banned company Beam Mobility are returning to Brisbane streets, but not as you might expect.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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Police wanding data reveals the south-east Queensland shops and transport hubs where most weapons are found.

Revealed: The hotspots where people in the crowd are hiding weapons

The locations of Queensland Police’s metal detection scans can be revealed for the first time.

  • Cloe Read
The launch of Queensland Rail’s Electric Multiple Units (EMU) in 1979. The trains have been progressively retired from service since 2018, with the last having its swan song on Saturday July 5, 2025.

Brisbane’s original electric trains take one last journey

Commuters were given one final chance to ride an EMU, marking the end of an era of rail travel in Queensland.

  • Felicity Caldwell and Nick Dent
Commuters catching the Brisbane Metro service from Cultural Centre station

‘Far from a disaster’: How Brisbane’s updated bus network fared in first working week

As the week draws to a close and Brisbane’s busway faces detours, the city’s new network and Metro line have received a passing grade from commuters and workers.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Timelapse video of the upgrade of Brisbane's Buranda train station.
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Buranda train station upgrade

Timelapse video of the upgrade of Brisbane's Buranda train station.

The LNP’s shared equity scheme will only be available for 1000 people.

Will the LNP’s new scheme help me become a first-home buyer?

The shared equity scheme promises to help first homeowners break into the property market, but is it all it’s cracked up to be?

  • Courtney Kruk
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Footage posted to community alert page Brisbane Incident Alerts on June 21 shows a bus driver being assaulted by a passenger, allegedly for refusing to pay a 50-cent fare.

‘Quite traumatised’: Brisbane bus driver may have permanent ear damage after attack

The lord mayor and union officials are calling for repeat offenders to be banned from public transport.

  • Courtney Kruk
Footage posted to community alert page Brisbane Incident Alerts on June 21 shows a bus driver being assaulted by a passenger, allegedly for refusing to pay a 50-cent fare.

‘Deeply disturbing’: Bus driver bashed in South Brisbane

Police have launched an investigation into the incident, in which a driver was repeatedly punched after trying to remove a passenger from a bus.

  • Courtney Kruk
The train had just left Fortitude Valley Station when it ran a red light.

Brisbane train driver ran red light during sneezing fit

The driver, who had COVID at the time of the inner-city incident, had to apply emergency brakes to avoid another train, a new report has found.

  • Cameron Atfield
Brisbane Times council budget winners and losers graphic

The winners and losers in the Brisbane City Council budget

What’s in the budget for you? Here’s some of the winners and losers out of Brisbane City Council’s 2025-26 budget.

  • Felicity Caldwell and Catherine Strohfeldt

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