Premier Bligh says record flooding in regional Queensland has stretched the state’s resources.

Education Queensland says one school in the southern inland has remained closed today because of flooding.

A central Queensland man has been in danger of missing his own wedding due to floodwaters isolating him for two weeks.

MAYOR Peter Taylor is the public face, boardroom leader and front page warrior of Toowoomba Regional Council.

MP Mike Horan was tight-lipped yesterday about claims he had to pull four LNP colleagues into line after they allegedly had a mid-week drinking session.

MURPHYS Creek locals have dubbed it “The Pub With No Beer”. James Barns was supposed to open the town’s first pub in nearly 90 years around September last year.

TOOWOOMBA Police Crime Investigation Branch detectives are continuing their search for answers as to how a man received serious head injuries last weekend.

MR STOOL, also known as George Bolous, has become a bit of an icon in Toowoomba’s CBD throughout the past four decades.

THE overpopulation of wild brumbies at Carnarvon Gorge National Park, north of Injune, has always been a big problem.

FORMER Australian champion Mark Robinson has been tagged as the man to beat when V8 dirt modifieds return to Charlton Raceway tonight.

BENJAMIN James Strong will miss the birth of his first child after he was jailed for nine months yesterday for a drunken attack on a man at his Wilsonton home.

A TAXI driver accused of indecently dealing with a disabled passenger is expected to plead guilty to the charge, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard yesterday.

THUMBING his nose at community service has left Jason James Ingleton with the threat of jail hanging over his head for the next three months.

LISA Whiteley has always been grandfather Alf Short’s little shadow, but she’s ready to take to the limelight in the name of family tradition.

HOTEL security cameras proved the bane of Taigan Mary-Lee Williams who was jailed yesterday for stealing property from three separate pubs.

AT just 21, Teale Judd has already seen the value of investing in the Toowoomba property market.

TOOWOOMBA motorist Tamie Schick agrees that the Garden City is one of the most car-friendly cities in Australia after research found it was the state’s best.

THIEVES cut through wire fences in a break-and-enter crime spree on businesses in Water Street on Thursday night.

PRICES are up and services are down after last year’s council amalgamation, according to some residents in amalgamated towns across the region.

IT’S time to “get back to basics”, says former Toowoomba mayor Clive Berghofer.