Bruce Highway reopens after serious truck crash
The Bruce Hwy has fully reopened 12 hours after a crash where a truck driver in his 40s was flown to hospital with serious injuries on Saturday.
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Armed robbers on run after woman attacked by strangers in home
Police are investigating a terrifying robbery where two men, believed to have been armed with a gun, threatened and assaulted a Qld woman in her 60s inside her own home.
‘We blame no one’: Mum’s brave message after teen’s death
In an incredible show of resilience, the mother of a 14-year-old former private school student and accomplished dancer who tragically took her own life, has shared a surprising message. *Distressing.
Exclusion zone revoked after injured woman’s ‘gunshot’ claim
An exclusion zone placed over multiple streets has been revoked after specialist officers responded to reports of an armed person inside a Toowoomba property.
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Furious mum blasts hospital as son’s ‘choking’ condition left untreated
A little boy who could not swallow without choking, who lost 20 percent of his body weight in his first week of life, had to wait 11 months until a regional Queensland hospital confirmed what his parents feared all along. SPECIAL REPORT
Parents turned back for ‘two seconds’ when dingo bit girl, 9, at K’gari
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Woman killed in head-on crash with fuel tankers
A Queensland woman has died after the station wagon she was driving veered onto the opposite side of the road and hit a prime mover towing B-double fuel tankers. Miraculously, a dog survived the crash.
Businessman accused of shooting death ‘kept loaded gun under bed’
A Queensland businessman charged over the shooting death of a young dad on his property believed a vehicle was either being broken into or being tampered with, a court has heard. VIDEO
Premier jeered, abused as tiny Qld town explodes over $12bn mega hydro scheme
Premier Steven Miles has come under attack during a fiery confrontation with residents living at ground zero of a massive pumped hydro scheme. WATCH THE VIDEO
Case dropped against cop charged with trespass of alleged drug dealer’s home
A regional Queensland police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing for entering the home of an alleged Toowoomba drug dealer.
Premier boasts of coal royalty funds switch from stadium to hospital
Steven Miles claims his government has diverted coal royalties money from building a new stadium in Brisbane to a $250 million hospital expansion in north Queensland.
Listed: Qld’s badly behaved doctors, nurses banned or restricted
They’re meant to be our most trusted members of society – but even health practitioners make bad decisions.
Man fighting for life after alleged stabbing, car crash
A man is in a critical condition in hospital after he was found with an alleged stab wound at the scene of a car crash at Noosa, with police investigating its circumstances.
Man dies after being hit by truck near scene of triple fatality
A man has died after being hit by a truck on the Bruce Highway at Maryborough, just a kilometre from where three men died in a horror crash which saw two trucks ignite in flames.
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