On average it will cost you $17 to park for 30 minutes at off-street stations in Brisbane, nearly double what Melbourne and Sydney drivers pay and the highest price in the nation, the RACQ says.
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Teen shocks doctors, thrives after life support turned off
Two weeks after Tristan Sik was critically injured in a road accident, doctors advised his parents to turn off his life support, but one year on and he has made an incredible recovery.
Could you sleep through a 42.6-degree night?
Night-time temperature records in the northern hemisphere have been smashed in the past few weeks. Nights are getting warmer all over the world, with deadly consequences.
Free dog given away on Facebook turns up two weeks later with facial injuries
An animal rescue group is imploring people to take animals they can no longer care for to rescue groups or shelters after a dog offered up “free to a good home” on Facebook turned up two weeks later in a pound with facial injuries.
Brisbane man suing internet search engines for not removing false slurs
Jarrod Sierocki is taking on Google, Bing and Yahoo in the Queensland Supreme Court over their ongoing failure to remove links to defamatory web pages.
Fatal industrial accident on Brisbane's bayside
A man has been killed in an incident between a truck and a pedestrian on a manufacturing site at Cleveland, on Brisbane’s bayside.
Battling PTSD 'everyday reality' for emergency services, Senate inquiry told
An entrenched stigma among the emergency services is preventing open discussion about mental health, despite many workers experiencing trauma on a daily basis, a Senate inquiry in Brisbane is told.
After a man's headless torso was found, his son received emails from him
The son of a man whose dismembered body was found burning on the side of a rural road in Queensland received birthday and Christmas messages from his father’s email account after the remains were found, a court hears.
Cemeteries creep you out? You could get buried underwater instead
People could spend their afterlife in an underwater cemetery on Queensland’s Gold Coast, with the council floating the idea of building a memorial dive site for burial urns in the city’s Broadwater.
Lead poisoning at shooting range '13 times' over acceptable levels, left worker with disabilities
An indoor shooting range north of Brisbane is fined $77,000 after an employee suffered lead poisoning from exposure to ammunition, with a blood test revealing the man had almost 13 times the acceptable high-end range.