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Premium Content Subscriber only DEDICATED firefighters will soon have a state-of-the-art station to call their own to service Ipswich's growing western corridor, with more demand than before for their assistance in times of emergency and disaster. Construction on a new $2 million auxiliary fire and rescue station in Rosewood is expected to be finished in the next four months. Fireys have been sharing a building on the town's main street with personnel from the Queensland Ambulance Service but the building is too small to house both services. A new auxiliary fire station for Rosewood is un...

Premium Content Subscriber only The Office of Workplace Health and Safety has brought a charge against Schulte's Meat Tavern arising from an incident that left a worker with horrific arm injuries. The OWHS prosecutor will allege that between September 18, 2017 and January 10, 2020, Schulte's Meat Tavern had management or control of plant at its workplace and failed to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that the plant was without risk to the health and safety of any person, and their failure to comply with that duty exposed an individual to a risk of serious injury. Schulte's Meat Ta...

Emergency services say they have been “quite concerned” by driver behaviour of the Christmas holiday period. At a press conference at Withcott on Friday, Acting Inspector Regan Draheim said more than 800 traffic infringement notices were issued since Christmas Eve, of which more than half were for speeding. Acting Inspector Draheim said police also conducted over 6500 RBTs, which detected 60 drink drivers. Another 60 drivers were also detected under the influence of drugs, which Acting Inspector Draheim said was “also quite concerning”. Acting Inspector Draheim told th...