A new road safety billboard displaying a message tailored to the remote conditions of Mount Isa has been produced with the aim of reducing the State road toll. Sergeant Cath Purcell said the aim of the project is to create awareness for safe and attentive driving on remote and rural roads. “By creating a thought-provoking […]
Police are investigating the armed robbery of a bottleshop at Rochedale overnight. Around 7.55pm a man has entered the Underwood Road premises producing a knife and making demands for money from the store employee. A sum of cash was stolen before the offender fled the scene. No one was injured during the incident. Anyone with […]
A 20-year-old woman has died following an alleged assault at Yarrabah on Sunday morning. Police attended a location on Pine Creek Yarrabah Road on Sunday morning where a woman was found with head injuries. The woman was transported to the Townsville Based Hospital with severe head injuries where she died on Monday night. As a […]
Police have charged a man with drink driving after his vehicle hit a police officer. At about 7:10pm officers from Sunshine Coast Road Policing Command where performing speed enforcement on the Westbound lanes of Maroochydore Road, Kuluin. They stopped one vehicle and were issuing a traffic infringement notice to the driver. It will be alleged […]
Police are investigating an unlawful wounding in Caboolture early this morning. Initial inquiries reveal at about 5am a 48-year-old Bongaree man was in Glenwood Drive Morayfield when he was asked by an unknown male to drive him to a Morayfield Road residence. The unknown man went into the Morayfield Road residence then returned and got […]
Police have identified a man who was found deceased in a residence in Barney Point on December 14. Police and emergency services were called to the Callide Crescent home around 9.30pm, where they found the house well alight. The house has been declared as a crime scene. The body of a 39-year-old Gladstone man was […]
Neighbourhood Watch has branched out of the suburbs and onto the sand in a trial program aimed at reducing theft and other crime in the Mooloolaba Beach area. Police Commissioner Ian Stewart and Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpsons joined Neighbourhood Watch Australasia (NHWA), Surf Lifesaving Queensland and the Sunshine Coast Council members to launch the […]
Officers from the Gold Coast Major and Organised Crime Squad yesterday charged a man and a woman after police allegedly located drugs and cash at residences in Ashmore. The search warrants were executed simultaneously at two addresses next door to each other following information received from members of the public. The searches resulted in the […]
Police have charged a man in relation to the robbery of a convenience store at Carrara on December 13, 2014. It is alleged a man entered the Elysium Road premises and made demands for money and cigarettes from the store attendant. An undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes was allegedly stolen. A 30-year-old man of […]
Police have charged a 17-year-old man with assault, following an alleged assault on a bus driver in South Bank last night. Police will allege around 8.20pm, the man approached the bus parked at South Bank station. After the bus driver refused entry to the bus, the man then entered and allegedly assaulted the driver, taking […]