Local News

The alleged break and entry into three separate businesses at Booval on Saturday September 26 resulted in a 32-year-old man from Redbank facing charges. Between midday and 8 o'clock the man allegedly broke into the Brisbane Road businesses and stole almost $30,000 worth of vaping products. Ipswich Police executed a search warrant...

A 37-year-old woman and a two-year-old girl missing from Inala prompted a Police appeal for your help to find them. The pair were last seen at a Kulgun Circuit address on Friday September 25 and have not contacted family since. The woman is described as Caucasian around 150 centimetres tall with a...

The ribbon was cut on a $52 million police training facility built in honour of Queenslands former top cop. The Bob Atkinson Operational Capabilities Centre at Wacol in Brisbanes West will be a training base for eight thousand officers a year. Mr Atkinson said police need to be well equipped for their...

Increasing annual milk production by almost one billion litres adding $500 million of farm gate value and creating several thousand new jobs. That was the aim of the Australian Dairy Plan made possible by the joining together of Australia's key dairy organisations. In fact it was the first time these dairy groups...

A Woodridge man died after a blaze ripped through his home. Two occupants were inside when the inferno took hold of the property during the early hours of Sunday September 27. One of the residents managed to make it out of the home safely. Investigators located the body of a man within the...

A man was charged following investigations into a disturbance at Ipswich on Friday night September 25. At half-past-seven Police responded to reports of a disturbance on Darling Street. On arrival it was alleged a 37-year-old man was located with a serious wound to his stomach. He was transported to the Princess Alexandra Hospital...

An Ipswich man has died when his four-wheel-drive hit a tree west of Gympie. He was on the Burnett Highway south of Goomeri on Saturday afternoon when the vehicle left the road. The driver, a 30-year-old from Ipswich, died at the scene ... three children travelling in the vehicle were all taken...

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) advises there is a grass fire in Yamanto. You need to keep up to date and decide what actions you will take if the situation changes. Currently as at 3.40pm Saturday 26 September, a fast-moving grass fire is burning on both sides of the Centenary Highway...

Bushfire warning level: ADVICE Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) advises there is a bushfire in Pine Mountain, north of Ipswich. You need to keep up to date and decide what actions you will take if the situation changes. Currently as at 2.15pm Saturday 26 September, a bushfire is burning between Russells Road...

A man has died after a single vehicle crash at Bundamba on Friday night.Preliminary inquiries indicate at 9.30pm a 4WD was travelling west on Ashburn Road when it lost control and hit a tree near the intersection with Wood Street.The driver and sole occupant, a 31-year-old Flinders View man, died...