Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says Cubbie Station workers who lose their jobs will be eligible for government assistance.

A 14-year-old girl is in a stable condition after she was hit by a motorbike on South Street in the Toowoomba suburb of Glenvale yesterday.

City-dwellers are being urged to think about a ‘tree change’ with hundreds of jobs and business opportunities on offer in regional towns across Queensland.

The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) has sent all councils a draft code of conduct for dealing with developers.

Cubbie Station’s move into administration means it could be sold for far less than the rumoured price of $450m.

The federal Member for Maranoa says he hopes the federal Agriculture Minister will reinstate the Exceptional Circumstances (EC) status of some local farms.

Australia’s biggest cotton plantation, Cubbie Station, is to go into voluntary administration.

Toowoomba Catholic education director John Borserio says he is disappointed by yesterday’s teachers’ strike.

Two teenage boys have been charged and a third is wanted by police after two break-ins in Toowoomba overnight.

A TEENAGE girl was in a critical condition yesterday after she was hit by a motorcycle in Glenvale.

IT IS a strange operating limbo for the Darling Downs-Moreton Rabbit Board chairman Rod Towner and 17 employees.

MILL Street Tavern CCTV footage had shown the teenand three other males with socks on their hands breaking through the roller doors of the hotel’s storage room.

CLIFTON Police Sergeant Guy Smidt said the 23-year-old man used the small axe to damage the car and smash a window before trashing the house at 10am on Monday.

POLICE are hunting a man who tried to lure a seven-year-old girl from her Darling Heights home front yard into his car by offering her lollies.

AN 11-year-old girl who was pulled unconscious from the Pittsworth public pool on Sunday is reportedly now breathing on her own again in a Brisbane hospital.

THE Toowoomba Pipeline Alliance has laid 99 per cent of pipe in the ground and will shortly connect it to its final destination, Cressbrook Dam.

THE Australian tradition of “chucking a sickie” was alive and well in Toowoomba man Scott Merv Geissler.

BILL Cahill will soon have the ear of parliamentarian Maxine McKew.

AgForce says it is up to kangaroo producers to get their product up to export standard.

More than 400 Catholic school teachers have attended a stop-work meeting in Brisbane demanding their employer negotiate a new wage deal.