Lightning 'explosion', trees down, power out after storms

Lightning ‘explosion’, trees down, power out

A MASSIVE “explosion” caused by lightning hitting powerlines has been caught on dashcam as another round of severe thunderstorms hit southeast Queensland last night. Thousands of propert...

Train builder smacks state with $100m claim

CANADIAN train builder Bombardier has hit the State Government with a $100 million damages claim over delays to Queensland’s troubled $4.4 billion train-building project.

The true cost of kids sport

Australia's identity has been shaped by sport and we are so good at it that generation after generation of kids want to be involved. Almost 50 percent of kids aged six to 13 are actively inv...

Barn[aby] burning backfires on PM

THE two most powerful politicians in the country have launched an extraordinary two-day, tit-for-tat verbal assault on each other, with the row between Malcolm Turnbull and Barnaby Joyce cau...

Police officers critically hurt in RBT horror crash

A 22-year-old man has been charged after two police officers were hit by a car and critically injured while they set up a random breath test station in western Sydney.