Queensland’s mine safety commissioner says a new computer program will help reduce the number of collisions and fatalities at mine sites.

Charleville residents in south-west Queensland will today focus their flood clean-up efforts on the town’s Catholic Church.

The administrators of Cubbie Station, McGrath Nicol, say recent rain in Queensland’s southern inland will not drive up the property’s sale price.

Floodwaters are still threatening some homes and businesses in Queensland but authorities say the worst is over.

A tiny south-west Queensland community has almost run out of fuel as floodwaters continue to cut access to the region.

The managing director of a goat abattoir which closed in Charleville due to flooding says it was too expensive to keep operating.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he has spoken to the mayors of many of the flood stricken communities in Queensland.

TOOWOOMBA and Golden West Tourism general manager German Ugarte has left the organisation after eight months in the position.

THE RACQ has confirmed what most Toowoomba residents already know — the Warrego Highway is in a very poor condition.

TOOWOOMBA’S independent suburban retailers warn the decision to allow Sunday trading from May 16 could have a devastating impact on their livelihoods.

CHARLEVILLE pub owner Brett Tanzer is so devastated by the water damage to his hotel he still hasn’t stepped inside the front bar to see it for himself.

PLANS by Toowoomba’s brothel owner Jim Welch to enter a float in the Carnival of Flowers parade have been quashed before they could get off the ground.

WATER restrictions are set to be eased and hand-held hoses again allowed with Toowoomba’s bulk water supply surging to a three-year high this week.

POLICE were called to a fiery crash involving two cars only to find both drivers had fled the scene before emergency services arrived.

TOOWOOMBA mum Alley Sullivan has welcomed paid paternity leave plans for Australian working women.

WAGNERS has entered into a venture with a major international energy services company that could create more than 1000 jobs in the Toowoomba region.

THE Insurance Council of Australia has estimated the cost of the 7500 insurance claims in the flooded south-west Queensland region will amount to $120 million.

FLOODING over roads near Charleville has forced the standing down of 180 workers at the Western Exports abattoir for an indeterminate amount of time.

POLICE have released CCTV stills taken at the Shamrock Hotel on Friday night in a bid to find out what happened to a man with serious head injuries.

DESPITE police finding two-and-a-half kilograms of cannabis in his Jellicoe Street home, Barry Allan Myers walked from Toowoomba Supreme Court this week.