A Queensland police officer has died during a memorial motorcycle ride in the NSW Northern Tablelands. The officer was participating in the Wall to Wall ride when the crash occurred on Wednesday afternoon. The annual memorial ride pays tribute to fallen police officers, with riders from each state finishing their journey at the National Police … Read more
Cases of children eating up to 120 multivitamin gummies in a single day are among a “significant” increase in parent calls to the Queensland Poison Information Centre concerning overuse of the gummies. QPIC received 180 calls relating to toddlers eating multivitamins with iron — which can be toxic for children if overused — in 2023. … Read more
A Queensland father remains in hospital three weeks after being knocked unconscious by a whale in a freak accident while fishing. Jordan Mainstone was fishing with a friend off Duranbah near the NSW-Queensland border when the whale breached next to him just before 9am on August 18. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Gold Coast father remains … Read more
Nikki Bruce thought she was just a “bit off” when she went to her shift as a security guard in Cairns last year. She gave her boss the heads-up that she didn’t feel 100 per cent — which would possibly end up saving her life. The now 61-year-old didn’t know it, but she was having … Read more
The Australian suburbs being crushed under the weight of “extreme rental stress” have been highlighted in sobering new data. A September Rental Pain Index (RPI) report by property research and analysis firm Suburbtrends shows 35 areas at breaking point. The RPI score is calculated using a number of factors including rent changes over the last … Read more
Small business owners say they’re being left out in the cold while behemoth companies are propped up by taxpayer dollars. Queensland’s small businesses lashed Premier Steven Miles for comments made about the government stepping in to save Star Entertainment’s Star Brisbane Casino in The Queen’s Wharf precinct. Star pushed back the release of its annual … Read more
7NEWS journalists have been denied access to certain Children’s Court proceedings only days after the Queensland Government officially passed laws opening it up to victims and accredited media organisations. The Miles Labor Government passed the new legislation, which went into effect on August 30, as part of a promise made by the premier earlier in … Read more
An Australian woman and her son have been killed in a wrong-way crash in San Jose, California. Rebecca Olsen, 47, had just picked up Charlie, 14, from school when the Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck speared head-on into their Tesla on Highway 85. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Australian woman and son killed in California crash. Know … Read more
Cairns will join Townsville as a home to a boutique rectangular stadium of an approximate 20,000 capacity — before even Brisbane gets one — with the far north Queensland city securing a 2032 Olympics venue. Barlow Park will be upgraded at an estimated cost of $91 million ahead of its expected hosting of group-stage matches … Read more
Millions of Queenslanders are set to sweat through the remaining days of winter as a week of “unseasonably warm” temperatures culminates in a scorching Saturday in the southeast. Brisbane is forecast by the Bureau of Meteorology to record maximum temperatures of 30C and above every day except Tuesday (28C) before an expected top of 34C … Read more
