TWO disgraced former Brisbane Broncos' players today pleaded guilty to bashing a man in city's CBD during a brawl after the club's annual end of season awards gala. Forwards Ian Robert Lacey, 23,...

A JILTED lover tried to kill his former partner and another woman using two samurai swords she had bought him as a gift, a court has heard. Benjamine Albert Hester, 26, today pleaded guilty in the...

A Magistrate has sentenced former Broncos players Ian Lacey and John Te Reo to six-month suspended jail terms for their roles in an assault in Brisbane's CBD last October. Te Reo, 21, and...

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is expected to decide today on a hearing date to rule on the release of Immigration Department documents relating to Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef. The former Gold...

A SENTENCING hearing for nine males who raped a 10-year-old girl will be heard in Brisbane, not Cairns, if an appeal against their punishment is granted, Queensland's Chief Justice says. A decision...

About 500 electrical workers have rallied in central Brisbane and marched on State Parliament to protest over stalled wage negotiations with the Queensland Government. The electrical workers are...

Fire investigators will inspect a block of old shops destroyed by fire at Clifton last night. The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service was called to the Fisher Street buildings at 11:00pm AEST, but...

The Gold Coast Blaze has signed four-time Olympian Shane Heal to its roster for the 2008-09 NBL season. Heal, who resides on the Gold Coast, will line up at point guard for the Blaze next season...

Queensland chairman of selectors Des Morris has defended the inclusion of Broncos full-back Karmichael Hunt at five-eighth for the opening State of Origin encounter in Sydney next Wednesday. Morris...

Gold Coast Titans managing director Michael Searle says the club's co-captain Scott Prince is bitterly disappointed to miss out on a Maroons jumper. Broncos full-back Karmichael Hunt was named as...

TWO drunken pranksters who poured detergent to pools at a water fun park were caught with the evidence all over the them, a court has been told. Forde Thomas Lamberth, 18, was fined $650 and...

A 22-year-old man involved in a police chase will face court today after he was tracked down by a police dog at Caboolture, north of Brisbane. Police pursued the man who was allegedly driving a...

Brisbane City Council will amend its town planning laws to reduce the number of unrelated people who can live in a home. The move is in response to a new report on the international student...

A BONE found on Fraser Island has been identified by forensic scientists as animal remains, possibly a brumby, after earlier fears it could be human. An island resident uncovered the 15cm bone...

POLICE said speed may have been a factor in a fatal motorcycle crash on Brisbane's bayside. A man died after his motorcycle crashed on Shore Street, Cleveland, just after midnight. Police said the...

A MAN will face court after a police dog tracked him through thick scrub and swampland and apprehended him following a police chase north of Brisbane. Police allege the man crashed a stolen car on...

AN ARMED robber threatened to shoot a convenience store worker when the employee chased the offender out of the shop last night. Around midnight a man wielding a hand gun - possibly a replica -...

New South Wales half-back Peter Wallace says he had not even thought about playing State of Origin football at the start of the season. The Broncos' number seven has been named alongside Cronulla's...

Prostate cancer patients will benefit from a new radiation treatment to be used for the first time today in a Toowoomba hospital. The new technique, called Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy was...

A Gold Coast entertainment and leisure conference has heard local tourism operators face competition from large scale developments in the Middle East. The vice-chairman of the International...

THE chairman of Taser International Inc accused critics yesterday of spreading myths about the stun gun's dangers, saying there was no "magic bullet" to completely eliminate the risk of death when...

NEW laws have been passed by the Queensland parliament allowing for the compulsory acquisition of indigenous land to build essential services such as schools, hospitals and police stations. The...

A MAN has been charged with sexually attacking a woman as she slept in her far north Queensland home. Police said the 42-year-old woman was asleep in her Injinoo bedroom when a man entered her room...

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A CANCER cluster detected at a north Queensland fire station will result in a national study into the incidence of the disease among firefighters. Five personnel at the Atherton fire station have...

NINE males who raped a 10-year-old girl in remote north Queensland should be jailed as a fit punishment for their crime, a court has been told. Queensland's Attorney-General Kerry Shine today...

A MAN appeared in court today, accused of torturing a two-year-old boy who fell from a pram on to a busy road on the Sunshine Coast. Aaron Sean Corr, a 22-year-old student, faced six charges -...

THE Queensland Government has announced a $250,000 reward for information about a Brisbane guesthouse fire 18 years ago which killed five men. The Oakdale guesthouse in Ipswich burnt to the ground...

TIME-starved overweight workers will be the focus of fast-food style weight loss outlets in city department stores offering 15-minute consultations. The mini-stores, offering people 15-minute...

Three years after running his first marathon, Queensland University of Technology student Aidan Hobbs can't be stopped. Blitzing the field to win the Brisbane Marathon last month, the 21-year-old...

A 22-year-old Mooloolaba student has been charged with the torture of a two-year-old boy who allegedly fell from a pram on to a busy road on the Sunshine Coast. The man will face six charges...

Representatives of Gold Coast theme and wildlife parks are among 250 delegates from across the country attending an amusement and recreation industry conference on the coast today. The president of...

The program leader of Griffith University's Smart Water Research Centre on the Gold Coast says she believes proposed increases in the cost of water are conservative. The Queensland Government has...

A MAN linked by his DNA to three sexual assaults and believed responsible for at least six other attacks has been found dead in a burnt-out car near Gympie in Queensland. Police said the man's body...

A $20 million reverse osmosis plant will be opened north of Roma today, desalinating nine million litres of water a day from the coal seam gas industry. Origin says the water being produced is now...

The Gold Coast Titans' managing director, Michael Searle, says the re-signing of star forward Anthony Laffranchi until the end of 2011 brings stability to the club. The club announced Laffranchi had...

A MOPED rider has died in a road crash in far north Queensland. The 36-year-old's moped and a utility collided at Freshwater, Cairns on Lower Freshwater Road about 7.30pm (AEST) yesterday, police...

QUEENSLAND Attorney-General Kerry Shine will today appeal the sentences handed down for the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl in far north Queensland. Mr Shine is seeking tougher sentences for nine...

THE agreement between the Queensland Liberal and National parties to form a new conservative entity is expected to come under fire when state parliament sits today. The two parties have agreed to...

A MAN who allegedly threatened to kill a federal MP had his trial delayed after a judge was told the accused wanted to be called ``Doctor Dungrat''. On Monday, May 12, Ipswich District Court Judge...

SOUTHEAST Queensland households will be forced to pay much more on water bills than the Government promised last year because of a blow-out in the cost of drought-proofing infrastructure. The...

WESLEY Hospital clinical nurse Sherie Kenrick is dying of cancer but she still tends the sick for the sake of her children and the love of her patients. She vows to do it for as long as it takes and...

PSYCHOLOGIST Linda Wright knows the answer to this $150,000 question: Are rural residents as physically active as city dwellers? That is because Ms Wright mixes her professional duties – that...

ABOUT 113 western suburbs homes could be resumed and another 600 would be affected by Brisbane City Council plans for the Northern Link Tunnel project. Council officers started briefing residents in...

EXPLOSIONS were heard for kilometres around a property near Townsville last night when drums of oil and a shipping container were engulfed by flames. While fire crews watched the inferno from a safe...

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"Queensland is a growth state and experiencing substantial growing pains," Mr Swan said yesterday. "It has not had a partner to work with them in the past." The declaration was...

ONE of the chief architects responsible for improving public transport in southeast Queensland - Luke Franzmann - has quit. TransLink general manager Luke Franzmann has been behind the integration...

Golden point extra time will break any deadlocked matches in this year's State of Origin - and play will continue until someone scores. The Australian Rugby League Board announced this afternoon...

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy suffered serious head injuries when his pram was hit by a vehicle after it rolled onto a busy road on the Sunshine Coast. Police were told the pram carrying the young boy rolled...