Category: Updates from Brisbane Times

Property developers and hotel chains are increasingly sponsoring “mini-festivals” in Brisbane as part of the gentrification of the city.

See Full Post >>

Queensland’s tow truck industry will be scrutinised by a three-month inquiry by a retired judge, plans to be announced this morning by Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey will confirm.

See Full Post >>

The old currency is almost 200 years old and will go under the hammer valued at just under $500,000.

See Full Post >>

A Brisbane woman who told her parents as a five-year-old child she wanted to go to Africa to help children is one of two Brisbane nurses who have received the prestigious Florence Nightingale Medal from the International Red Cross.

See Full Post >>

Firefighters had brought the fire under control and were dampening down hotspots within 30 minutes of arriving on the scene.

See Full Post >>

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop will take the world to far north Queensland this weekend.

See Full Post >>

​Disgraced greyhound trainer Tom Noble’s avoidance of jail for live baiting has been slammed by the RSPCA who says it sets a “worrying precedent” for animal cruelty charges.

See Full Post >>

​After spending more than half his life helping prevent deaths at sea with the Brisbane Coast Guard, Allan Tennent has been honoured as Queensland’s volunteer of the year.

See Full Post >>

The pumpkins in your local supermarket are less than 10 kilograms in weight, but the fruit which took out the Ekka’s top award was more than 25-times the size and grown by a farming family west of Brisbane.

See Full Post >>

Conference to hear cannabis offers ‘false hope’.

See Full Post >>