Flu strikes village on Games eve
THREE people are being treated for influenza within the Commonwealth Games Village and are now in isolation on the eve of the opening ceremony.
She’s back! Iris redevelops into cyclone
CYCLONE Iris has reformed off the north Queensland coast and already-sodden communities are bracing for further downpours and damaging winds.
An insider's guide to Japan
PRISTINE islands, canal towns and blue ponds, this is the Japan you’ve never thought of. Japan is a place of contrasts – from its bowing etiquette to its famous samurai.
‘Catapult’ culprit gets 4000 death threats
A NORTH Queensland man caught hurling a cat over a fence and into a wall in a sickening viral video has described his “extreme regret”. For the first time he’s revealed why he did it.
Car park bomb ‘designed to do harm’: Police
A VEHICLE carrying a portable bomb “capable of causing serious injury” has been removed from a shopping centre west of Brisbane, police say.
Easter traffic ‘bumber to bumper’
THE M1 is in gridlock north and south of Brisbane, and a notorious stretch of the Bruce Highway is “bumper to bumper” as Easter holidaymakers return home after the long weekend.
RBA to keep interest rates on hold
THE Reserve Bank was expected to make no sudden movement on rates tomorrow amid a warning that just two interest rate rises were all it would take for defaults to climb.
Monday Bunker: ‘Running out of options’
ROUND 4 WRAP: At the end of the first month of the 2018 NRL season there’s plenty more questions and even fewer answers — our experts analyse the weekend’s action.
10 international Games stars you can’t miss
FROM runner Caster Semenya to diver Tom Daley, swimmer Penny Oleksiak and badminton’s Srikanth Kidambi here are the biggest overseas stars gracing the Gold Coast Games.
Text shows Bancroft’s class
A TEXT message Cameron Bancroft sent in the wake of the ball tampering scandal shows just what a mature character he is.
Nice little earner if you can swing it
HE WORKS just a couple of hours a day yet pulls in $230,000 a year. Here’s how this Brisbane dad stumbled on to a goldmine.
