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A 25-year-old man has been charged after allegedly driving dangerously through Browns Plains. Around 5.30pm yesterday (May 1), police noticed a silver Holden Commodore driving along Browns Plains Road without registration plates. It will be alleged officers attempted to intercept the vehicle when it performed a burnout, before accelerating away. Polair monitored the car throughout the Logan area. Around 6.30pm, the man allegedly parked the car at a shopping centre in Boronia Heights, before stealing a white Jeep from the carpark. A tyre deflation device was successfully deployed, causing it t...

An intense rain band bringing heavy falls is smashing parts of southeast Queensland with up to 88mm recorded. The rain is set to continue today.

A motorist has been rushed to hospital after rolling the car they were driving on a hilly road in one of three crashes on the Coast.

by Tanya French Premium Content Subscriber only Heavy rainfall and localised flash flooding has lashed the southeast coast with water over roads and more rain on the way. Up to 137mm of rain has fallen in parts of the Sunshine Coast as a coastal trough draws in high rainfall totals. Caloundra has recorded 120mm in the last 24 hours to midday, while Bells Creek South has seen 137mm of falls. Localised flooding in Sandgate and Carseldine has been caused by up to 78mm falling nearby in Kippa Ring. There is water over Gympie Rd at Carseldine and over Sandga...

OPINION: Finally the floodgates have opened and the community is able to have its say on the future of transport in the region, in particular, mass transit and the possibility of a light rail system along the coastal fringe. It's clear from the survey and the Draft Options Analysis Report there is a preferred option the council has its sights set on - light rail. Even the long-awaited CAMCOS heavy rail connection into Maroochydore came under scrutiny in the draft report, in which it was pitted against the first stage of a mass transit system which unsurprisingly scored extremely highly in m...