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A man and woman have been charged following a four-hour siege in Central Queensland. The stand off began when specialist police attended a Gracemere home to execute a Return to Prison Warrant on Wednesday afternoon. Queensland Police said a 27 year old man allegedly refused to leave the house and threatened officers. The...

Two people have been hospitalised following a late night crash in Central Queensland. Queensland Ambulance Service said they were called to the two-car incident on the Capricorn Highway at Goowarra at 8:15pm on Tuesday evening. Both patients were transported to Blackwater Hospital in stable conditions, including a man in his 50s with...

Rockhampton Police are calling for assistance to identify two people believed to be involved in a break and enter at Park Avenue on September 7.   Around 11.30am, a man allegedly entered a house on Wattle Street through an unlocked rear sliding security screen door and removed car keys from the occupant’s...

Detectives are investigating an incident in which a man allegedly discharged a firearm in Rockhampton on Monday. At around 3.30pm an altercation occurred between two men in the eastbound lanes of Fitzroy Street, between Murray Street and George Lane. Shortly afterwards a woman and one of the men involved in the altercation...

A record number of Australians have been getting bulk billed. For the financial year of 2019-20, 87.5 per cent of visits to the GP were provided with no out of pocket costs to patients. In the Capricornia region, 77 per cent of patients were bulk billed which made up 7 out of...

A man has sadly passed away after being pulled from the water at a beach south of Gladstone. Queensland Ambulance said they were called to a location off the Agnes Water Esplanade just after 4pm on Monday afternoon. A Queensland Police spokesperson confirmed the man in his 60s passed away from what...