Toowoomba, Australia News

Photo: The road from Dirranbandi to St George, in southern inland Queensland, remains closed due to flooding on February 9, 2012.

A MAN has been lucky to escape serious injury after he fell from the roof of a Toowoomba restaurant and bar.

Photo: Thargomindah SES members Dan Gray and Andy Petty get ready to ferry Thargomindah localA Jack Teelow across the Bulloo River on February 8, 2012.

Police say the 44-year-old man sustained serious burns when he was set alight at a home in Taylor St, Toowoomba at 8am yesterday.

BRAVE Roma mum Jane Sheahan made the ultimate sacrifice. As swirling floodwaters threatened to pull her and her seven-year-old son Darcy under, the mother of two and Blue Care nurse managed to hand him to safety before being sucked under the raging torrent that has engulfed much of central Queensland in recent days.

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THE Pope acted against natural justice and the Catholic Church's own canon law when he sacked Bill Morris as Bishop of Toowoomba last May, two expert independent reports have found.

Campbell Newman distances LNP from Clive Palmer's move to sue QR National for $8bn over Galilee Basin rail link CAMPBELL Newman insists Liberal-National backer Clive Palmer's decision to sue QR National has "nothing to do" with the LNP.

Academy Award-winning actor and producer Geoffrey Rush has been named the Australian of the Year for 2012 for his contribution to the arts.

FLASH flooding will soak the southeast, monsoonal rain will buffet north Queensland and the state's west is bracing for more severe storms as wild weather covers the state.

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A TOOWOOMBA mother was forced to make the devastating decision to turn off her husband's life support yesterday, a day after one of her 18-year-old twin daughters died instantly in a horror crash.

A MAN is in hospital after driving his bobcat through a house near Toowoomba in what police have described as a violent domestic dispute.

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One of Australia's leading tanneries will close next month putting 53 full time and casual workers out of a job.

Toowoomba mayor Peter Taylor says it's not surprising given the world economy and he hopes it'll reopen in the future.

NEARLY three-quarters of Queensland had above- average rainfall in 2011, while temperatures across the state were generally below average, according to an official wrap of the year's weather.

IT was in Toowoomba in 1922 that a group of ladies decided to form a country women's association for Queensland.