The State Government is moving ahead with changes to Queensland’s Criminal Code in relation to abortion, as well as laws for victims of domestic violence.

The bodies of two airmen killed in Vietnam almost 40 years ago have arrived back in Australia.

The Qld Public Sector Union says it is satisfied with the State Govt’s pay offer in the current financial climate.

A new $500 million interstate gas pipeline could soon be built from Young, in southern New South Wales, to Queensland.

A group of graziers and businessmen will ride postal bikes more than 1,000 kilometres through south-west Queensland this week.

Western Queensland’s rubbish will grace the catwalk later this month as ‘wearable art’.

A NEW law giving a partial defence to people who kill their abusers is set to be introduced in Queensland.

A GRASS fire, thought to be started by sparking powerlines, destroyed machinery shed on West Prairie Road near Jondaryan on Saturday.

AN 18-year-old Newtown man was arrested after a vicious city assault on Saturday night.

CHANGING the world she lives in for the better is 17-year-old Toowoomba teen Staicee Barber’s basic goal in life.

SHEARING a sheep in two minutes simply didn’t cut it at the Jondaryan Woolshed on Saturday.

IT takes daring to strip to your bikini at the best of times.

PUNTERS and artists banded together on Saturday at Clifford Park to raise money for USQ Artsworx.

BRITANNY Shears and Three Bags Full jumped out of the barriers on Saturday to gallop down a track with a twist.

SOLDIERS, veterans and their families gathered at the Mother’s Memorial in East Creek Park on Saturday morning for a very special memorial service.

A repatriation ceremony will be held in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi today for the last two missing Australian servicemen from the Vietnam War.

Fire authorities say most of the blazes burning across southern Queensland this week are now out.

Preparations are underway for the funeral of a Toowoomba Air Force pilot whose remains were recently uncovered in Vietnam.

Scientists and volunteers digging for fossils in remote south-west Queensland believe their latest discovery may be a new species of dinosaur.

Agshow organisers have decided not to axe pig sales from next week’s expo, despite the discovery of swine flu at a Dalby piggery on southern Queensland’s Darling Downs.