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Former Ipswich Mayor Andrew Antoniolli (pictured) will face a summary trial, on fraud charges next month. The trial, being held in Ipswich's Magistrates Court will run from May 7th, for at least seven days...according to The Q.T. Mr.Antoniolli is facing 14 fraud charges, related to him allegedly using Ipswich City Council money...

A seventh place at the Long Beach track in California on Monday  morning has left Toowoomba race-car driver Will Power just outside the top five in the Indy Car championships. American Alexander Rossi dominated the race - and was more than 20 seconds ahead of the rest of the pack. Power is...

Lockyer Valley Regional Council has called in a major consulting group to spotlight the region’s skateparks. Councillor Michael Hagan says a review and master plan process for upgrades and programs will be held with the Australian Skateboarding Community Initiative. He says skateboarding, scootering and BMX are popular with local young people, and...

A 45 year old woman was due in court on Monday after a man was stabbed in the neck at a home at Withcott. Police were called to the home Sunday afternoon following reports of a disturbance - a 41-year-old man had a stab wound to his neck and was taken...

A home has been completely gutted by a ferocious fire, South of Brisbane. Emergency services were called to the two storey house on Hakari Street at Crestmead at around 12-30 this morning, to find it fully engulfed. It took fire crews hours to extinguish the blaze, which is being treated as suspicious. Ross...

Welfare recipients are being reminded their usual payments might come at a different time, over the Easter and Anzac Day public holidays. Those who receive payments on a public holiday could be paid before-hand, and will have to budget for a longer period between dates. Department of Human Services General Manager, Hank...

Logan City Councillors have until June 30th, to cut suspended Mayor Luke Smith’s pay, under a special Local Government Regulation. Mayor Smith was suspended from his role on full pay last May, after being charged with perjury and corruption. Since then, he's continued to collect his $224,000 salary. Former Logan Mayor John Freeman...

It's been revealed more than 500 ambulance patients were left on stretchers, in overcrowded emergency hallways in Brisbane’s South last month, as hospitals dealt with an escalating beds crisis. According to The Courier Mail...524 patients were unloaded at four Metro South hospitals under the contentious “rapid offload” policy in March...that's a...

UPDATE | Police have charged a man for allegedly breaching a domestic violence order in East Ipswich on Friday. It will be alleged around 3.30pm on Joyce Street a silver Holden sedan has swerved at a Suzuki wagon travelling in the opposite direction. The Suzuki had to take evasive action to miss...

  Police are calling for public assistance after the armed robbery of a convenience store at Margate overnight.Just after 8:30pm a man armed with a tire iron entered the store on Oxley Avenue and demanded cash from a staff member.The worker pulled out a baseball bat and the two exchanged blows...