Police have declared an emergent situation and roads have been closed due to a bushfire in the Stuart area. Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) are advising residents in the vicinity to enact their bushfire plan. Around 1.15pm, two large bushfires were located at Stuart. The fast moving fires are travelling in a westerly direction […]
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A large contingent of serving and retired police motorcycle riders are making their way to Canberra as part of the Wall to Wall Ride for Remembrance, after an early breakfast at Bond University on the Gold Coast this morning. As part of the ride, a group representing each Australian policing jurisdiction travels with a baton from […]
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A woman has died following a shooting incident at a fast food outlet in Signato Drive, Helensvale this morning. Preliminary advice indicates the woman was shot in the head around 9.15am. She died at the scene. A man- known to the woman – has been transported to hospital with an apparent self- inflicted gun shot […]
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One man has been charged following a break and enter at a property in Nambour yesterday morning. Around 9.55am, three men attended a Reilly Road property, one of whom left in possession of a firearm. The firearm has since been located as well as two of the men. A 20-year-old Bellara man has been charged […]
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A man is assisting police with inquiries following an incident in Wacol this morning. At about 7.45am, police were called to Monterey Street following reports a man had rammed a woman’s car. Information received suggests the man then chased the woman on foot down Monterey Street with a machete. Members of the public came to […]
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Police are investigating a bush fire that occurred in Teemburra Dam this morning. Around 1.00am, emergency services attended fires at Teemburra Dam. These fires were burning on several fronts and allegedly threatening a residence and nearby cane fields. Investigations revealed that the fires were deliberately lit. No damage to property and no persons were injured. […]
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Police are investigating a fatal, single vehicle crash overnight. Around 12.20am a vehicle rolled on the Landsborough Highway at Plum Tree Creek, 20 kilometres west toward Cloncurry. A man was pronounced deceased at the scene. There is no further information at this time. The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating. If you have information for police, […]
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Police are investigating the discharge of a firearm where a 27-year-old woman has sustained an injury to her buttocks overnight. Around 9.55pm a taxi dropped the woman to the Gold Coast Hospital for treatment to her injury. At this time the woman has not given police a complete version of what has occurred. Her injuries […]
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The 24-year-old woman involved in a traffic incident and alleged assault at Molendinar on Tuesday died in hospital last night. Police were called to a traffic crash at Macquarie Avenue at Molendinar around 8.45am on Tuesday where a car was located down an embankment on its side. The woman was trapped inside the vehicle and […]
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Police are investigating an incident at Cairns this evening where a shop keeper was threatened with a syringe. Initial investigations reveal at about 5:30pm a man entered the business on Reservoir Road Manoora and threatened a staff member with a syringe. The female staff member has screamed and a customer who had just left the […]
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