Police are at the scene of a serious traffic crash on Rosewood Laidley Road in Laidley. Initial investigations suggest that just before 10am a car and a truck have collided. Diversions are in place from Rosewood via Long Gully in Grand Chester. Motorists are asked to avoid the area. There is no further information at […]
Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Keperra this morning. Around 5am an object was thrown into the window of a residence on Blackbutt Street resulting in a small fire. It is believed the object may have been fireworks. There were two people inside the house at the time of the incident and no one […]
Detectives have charged a man following investigations into a sudden death near Coen early this morning. Around 3am, two men allegedly became involved in an altercation on Peninsula Development Road, roughly 45 kilometres south of Coen, near what is known by locals as the ‘Yarrabin turn off’. As a result of the altercation, a 41-year-old […]
A man has died following a single vehicle traffic crash at Davies Creek near Mareeba on October 23. Around 11am, a car travelling west on the Kennedy Highway left the road and rolled. A 77-year-old Trinity Beach man was transported to Mareeba Hospital before being conveyed to Cairns Base Hospital. His condition deteriorated and was […]
Police are investigating after a woman sustained an injury from a projectile in Dundowran this morning. Around 11am, a 65-year-old Craignish woman went into the backyard of a property on Green Acres Road and heard what sounded like a gun shot. She then felt a pain in her leg and noticed it was bleeding. The […]
Police are seeking public assistance to help identify four men involved in the break and enter of a jewellery store on Palmerin Street last week. Around 2am on October 29, four men broke into the store and smashed display cabinets containing jewellery. The offenders then removed a number of items of jewellery before fleeing the […]
Police investigating the suspicious behaviour of a man at Ilbilbie on Saturday night are appealing for public assistance into the matter. Officers received a report of suspicious activity involving a male driver on the Bruce Highway between 6.30 and 7.45pm on Saturday, November 1. Police are appealing for a potential witness, who was not the […]
A 16-year-old boy has been charged after a bus driver was assaulted yesterday afternoon in Shailer Park. It will be alleged at about 5pm, two boys boarded a bus near a shopping centre on Shailer Road when a verbal exchange ensued regarding the fare. On exiting at the next bus stop, one of the boys […]
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man at Yarradin at about 3am today. Two local men became involved in an altercation on Peninsular Development Road when a 41-year-old man received a stab wound. The injured man was taken to the Coen Primary Health Clinic where he was pronounced deceased. A 45-year-old man is […]
Police charged a man yesterday following investigations into an assault incident at Yandina, November 2. Police will allege at around 1.30am Sunday, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at a Koongalba Street address before being confronted by the 43-year-old male occupant of the house. Police further allege the man threw a second Molotov cocktail at […]