Police are investigating a serious, two-vehicle traffic crash that occurred in Walkerston yesterday afternoon. Around 5.25pm, two vehicles collided at the intersection of Stockroute Road and Walkerston-Homebush Road which resulted in one car catching fire. All three occupants of the car exited the vehicle before it caught on fire and are believed to have sustained […]
Police wish to advise the Gregory Developmental Road between Charters Towers and Clermont will be shut tomorrow morning at 5.30am. At approximately 5.15 last night, the final tanker trailer of a truck carrying chemicals, rolled on the highway. The tanker is not leaking however the highway will be closed for several hours to allow officers […]
Police continue to appeal for the public to not go into flood waters following another rescue operation carried out tonight at the South Pine River. Around 7pm police were called to the South Pine River between the Eatons Hill and Bunya shorelines following reports that a boy had been swept down the river and was […]
Two juvenile boys and a young man have this afternoon been charged after allegedly breaking into a bottle shop in Yeppoon following the impact of Tropical Cyclone Marcia. Around 2am this morning police will allege that whilst conducting patrols they found a 17-year-old male and two juvenile boys with 11 bottles of alcohol in their […]
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE MEDIA RELEASE ISSUED SEVERAL MINUTES AGO IS INCORRECT. AN UPDATED MEDIA RELEASE IS COMING SHORTLY – IT WILL CONTAIN CHARGES IN RELATION TO AN OFFENCE COMMITTED AT THE BOTTLE SHOP. OUR APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED. If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious […]
Police are reminding the public of the dangers of swimming in flood waters following two rescue operations on the Sunshine Coast this afternoon. Around 12.15pm police received a call from a member of the public saying two teenagers had been seen swimming in flood waters and were now clinging to a tree close to Old […]
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Police have released an image of a man who may be able to assist with their investigations into the theft of a sum of money from a Gladstone hotel yesterday morning. At about 2.10pm a man has reached over the bar area of a Dawson Road hotel and removed money from a cash tin and […]
The restriction of movement of some people and vehicles to Fraser Island that was enacted at 3.15pm yesterday as a result of the Part State Level Disaster Declaration for Queensland will be rescinded at 5pm today. Access to and from Fraser Island from 5pm today will not be restricted. If you have information for police, […]
It would seem that the simplest of messages are often the hardest to receive. Flooded creeks and rivers, fast flowing waterways and watercourses and churned up oceans are dangerous places to play. A quick dip, a bit of fun, shouldn’t end it tragedy, and shouldn’t risk the lives of emergency service personnel. […]