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It may not be an easy conversation, but Toowoomba Hospital’s Liz Hill is hoping a simple message on a   coffee cup will get people talking more about organ and tissue donation. “Having a conversation about organ and tissue donation with your loved ones during your lifetime is important,” Ms Hill said. “It’s an opportunity...

South east Queenslanders will have to continue wearing masks for yet another week despite no locally acquired coronavirus cases overnight. The state has recorded one new case, but that person is an overseas traveller isolating in hotel quarantine. Despite low case numbers over recent days, Health Minister Yvette D’Ath says the situations...

Three men have been charged with murder following the death of a man during a violent brawl at North Booval. Detectives say a 31-year-old Calamvale man was shot twice and died in Ipswich Hospital two groups got into a fight over property on Baden Jones Way, on Tuesday night. Four other people...

Police are concerned about potential victims of child exploitation in Ipswich after a former teacher at a prestigious Brisbane high school was arrested on a string of charges. The 41-year-old man, who was also a sports coach, is accused of accessing child exploitation material via a publicly available website overseas, which...

Update on July 29: The 19-year-old woman reported missing from Ipswich yesterday has been located safe and well. Police would like to extend their appreciation to members of the public who helped.   Earlier: A Mackay family have serious concerns for a 19-year-old woman who has gone missing from Ipswich. Sera Rose Royce was...

Ipswich and Toowoomba house prices are continuing to eclipse records as some suburbs see price increases of more than five per cent in the most recent quarter alone. Median property prices west of Brisbane soared to an all-time high at the end of June, according to figures from CoreLogic. In Bellbird...

Police are vowing to hunt down two people on the run following a wild brawl involving guns and baseball bats that left a man dead in Ipswich. A 31-year-old man was shot dead and a number of others are in hospital, including a man in a critical condition with head injuries,...

Police are investigating a fatal shooting involving a large number of people at North Booval yesterday. Early information indicates at around 5pm, in Baden Jones Way, several people were involved in a violent altercation involving weapons. A 31-year-old man was transported to hospital with critical injuries and died a short time later. A...

An Ipswich nurse who has kidney disease has shared her heartbreaking story of passing up her husband's offer to donate his kidney in hope of later saving their daughter. Bec Vallee found out through a pre-natal scan that her now two-year-old daughter, Ambrosia, also had abnormal kidney development, which is an...

   A state-of-the-art computer system is being used as part of an action plan to stamp out serious hooning problems in Logan. The new system will make it easier for people to report hooning activity, as well as boost reporting capabilities for police. More than 12,000 reports of illegal hooning have been made...