Roofer with cocaine stash threatens to have hotel guard shot
Banned from a pub, a drunk apprentice roofer tried to go in anyway and didn’t take kindly to being booted again.
Police & Courts
Deranged, drugged and destroying a CBD: Inside plan to take back city
Bone-chilling screams and drug-addled drifters taking over. Now even the Premier can’t unsee the scary scenes unfolding daily in a city determined to reclaim its streets. VIDEO.
Hervey Bay tobacco shops shut in landmark illegal cigarette case
In a landmark decision and a victory for Qld Health, six tobacco stores will be closed for months after they were raided and found to be selling illegal smokes and vapes.
Shaved head, ‘pretend’ chemo: Cancer scammer’s Blue Card bid
A brazen Qld liar who scammed people out of money via a years-long cancer hoax wants the state’s administrative watchdog to allow her to look after children.
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Search underway for woman missing from Fraser Coast motor inn
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a 79-year-old woman missing from Urangan.
Regional Qld’s darkest year: Inside the tragedies that rocked us all
The alleged murder of Pheobe Bishop, the violent death of toddler Sophie Rose at the hands of her now dead mother and the drowning of a seven month old baby have left us all wondering what is going on.
Rangers investigating gruesome act on dead K’gari dingo
Authorities are seeking help following a shocking act carried out on a dingo struck and killed by a vehicle on the heritage island.
‘Screaming’ CBD drifters spark SOS as tourists flee, business hurts
The continued deterioration of Maryborough’s CBD, now ruled by ‘fear, not Heritage’ is subject to fresh calls for urgent action after a hundreds-strong crisis meeting failed to trigger the change the city needs. VIDEO.
‘Severe risk’: Council cops fine for water worker safety fail
A Qld council has faced court for failing to notify the regulator about an excavator near-miss.
Accused armed robber allegedly steals cars, leads cops on Highway chase
A Sunshine Coast man has been charged over an alleged armed crime spree in which he is accused of stealing two cars and then leading police on a chase down the Bruce Highway. WATCH:
‘Sorry mum’: Tears after concreter caught with guns, drugs outside jail
A young concreter had an emotional court exchange with his mother as he was sentenced for his role in a weapons and drugs bust at a Qld jail carpark.
Strangler strikes twice, tries to use booze can to slash partner’s throat
For hours a Qld mother of eight endured “terrifying” acts of domestic violence at a motel after a day of ‘sorry business’ until a neighbour phoned triple-0.
NAMED: Shameless men, women caught with child abuse images
The sharing of child exploitation material continues to be a scourge across the Wide Bay and Burnett regions with illegal images found in the hands of these offenders. Warning: Distressing
‘Feel like raping’: Bedroom burglar ‘wrestled’ as he tries to take girls
“It’s my turn”, an insidious intruder said as he terrorised multiple family homes, trying to abduct young girls amid a shocking sexually charged spree.
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