Police are urging drivers travelling throughout the Mount Isa District to take extra precautions following a substantial amount of rain fall in the area recently. Heavy rain falls in short periods of time have resulted in localised flooding and major road closures, including Richmond Winton Road at Richmond and the Flinders Highway between Julia Creek […]
Police are investigating a fire that occurred at a business in Harristown last night. At about 11.38pm emergency services attended the fitness centre on the corner of West and James streets where they found the rear of the premises well alight. The blaze was extinguished however the building sustained significant damage. No one was inside […]
Detectives have charged seven teenagers following the alleged unlawful entry of a utility and theft of a vehicle from a Palm Cove residence on the night of December 21. It will be alleged a number of the youths attended the residence on Buchan Street, gaining entry to a utility and searching through it before stealing […]
Police have revised the amount of sulfuric acid a freight train was carrying when it derailed approximately 20kms east of Julia Creek. Updated information indicates the train was transporting approximately 819,000 litres of sulfuric acid when it derailed on December 27. An emergency declaration and two kilometre exclusion zone remains in place under the Public […]
Statistics from day 6 of the Christmas Road Safety campaign have police reminding motorist to slow down and obey speed limits after a motorcycle was detected travelling 215km in 110km zone on the Bruce Highway, Glass House Mountains. During the Christmas Holiday Period, Queensland Police will enforce high risk road user behaviour including the fatal […]
Police have located the 13-year-old girl missing from Bundamba since Saturday, December 26. She was located safe and well overnight and has been reunited with her family.
UPDATE – the missing girl was located safe and well on the evening on December 29. Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenager missing from Riverview since Christmas day. The teenage girl was last seen by family late on Christmas night. She left the family home after an argument. She is 15-years-old and […]