Queensland’s Premier Anna Bligh says Australia’s investment regulators have got the balance right in relation to China.

The chairman of the board that maintains Queensland’s rabbit-proof fence says he still does not know how the pests will be controlled in the future.

University of Southern Queensland (USQ) employees will strike today.

South Burnett Regional Council Mayor David Carter will officially open Nanango’s energy centre today.

The Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre expects to be swamped today by a last minute flurry of applications for higher education next year.

The vaccine for human swine flu will be rolled out across Queensland today.

Queensland firefighters are battling 35 grass and bushfires across the state, but none are directly threatening homes or properties.

AN opportunistic thief has snatched a handbag from an unlocked car, scoring a $10,000 jewellery haul.

WHILE recent storms appear to be all done and dusted, Toowoomba residents are still feeling the effects.

HAVING arrived in Toowoomba from his native Singapore 10 years ago, Yewmeng Lim knows how difficult it can be to settle into a new and vastly different culture.

ECONOMIC development manager John Hickey has left the Toowoomba Regional Council, less than a month after the resignation of his boss Jo Molin.

TAKE it from Will Higgins: Oakey water is now so pure you can’t taste it.

POLICE say a suspected drink-driver who rolled his vehicle and fled the scene at Meringandan West had 12 hours to sober up before being caught.

TOOWOOMBA Police District superintendent Andy Morrow yesterday remembered a fallen friend among the 137 Queensland Police officers killed in the line of duty.

TOOWOOMBA motorists have reason to celebrate and it’s not just because their cars are finally clean after the dust storm.

A SEA of green welcomed four senators who visited Felton yesterday.

BRAD Astbury will lead a picket at the USQ today as union members strike over the time it is taking the uni to work through EBA negotiations.

Queensland firefighters are expecting a few days reprieve from very high to extreme fire weather conditions.

A group of residents wants a South Burnett mining project stopped because of environmental concerns.

A Senate committee will tour the site of a proposed coal mine at Felton on the Darling Downs today.