Thurston gets ’surprise’ retirement present

NRL legend Johnathan Thurston has been handed an early retirement present with news he and wife Samantha are expecting baby number four.

Future in doubt for Brisbane shopping strip

MORE than 18 shopfronts and offices sit empty in a shopping strip on Brisbane’s southside and traders fear the situation will get worse unless they can breathe new life into the strip. If ...

10 times this cyclist could have died

BRACE yourself — this cyclist’s near-miss ‘highlight’ reel is not for the faint-hearted. Filmed from a bike-mounted camera, It shows no less than 10 heart-stopping close calls, inclu...

Nannies expose Dutton’s double standards

PETER Dutton ignored the pleas of an Aussie veteran to help with a visa case, all while helping the nannies of wealthy mates.

Christian school pushes to dock teachers’ pay

IT may not be the Christian way but education bosses are pushing to dock the pay and superannuation of teachers at a school on Brisbane’s southside, but the teachers are fighting back.

Calls to close CBD streets to traffic

CARS could be banned from parts of the Brisbane CBD if the city council takes action over thousands of responses to a plan to improve pedestrian safety. But motorists aren’t the only ones ...

Heartbreaking scenes when boy hit by car

A MOTHER and daughter have told a court how a little boy, who was fatally injured when he was struck by a car in a Hungry Jack’s restaurant carpark in Brisbane, cried out for his mother.

Is this rugby’s greatest schoolboy side?

NUDGEE College had the incomparable Mark Loane, Terrace the great Michael Lynagh and Downlands College the legendary Tim Horan, but does Queensland’s greatest rugby union school come from ...

Body corp fined $21,000 for breaches

A BRISBANE apartment complex body corporate has been fined after firefighters found an evacuation route blocked and a chimney-like garbage chute that could have piped fire up 10 floors.

From petty crim to jailbreak killer: Australia's last man hanged

SOME believed him innocent, jurors who found him guilty still didn't think he should hang, but the Premier was determined  that Ronald Ryan would go to the gallows. Australia's last-man...