Brisbane has ground to a standstill, with schools closed, public transport cancelled and residents urged to stay home for at least two days.Here’s what you need to know.Schools and childcareMore than 600 state schools are closed on Thursday and Friday across south-east Queensland,

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State Emergency Service volunteers have helped to fill and distribute more than 40,000 sandbags to residents across Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley by Friday, as the southwest region prepares for the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Residents are urged to tidy up their properties now ahead of Cyclone Alfred’s arrival. The category 2 cyclone is expected to make landfall north of Brisbane, about 7am on Friday, bringing heavy rain and damaging wind. It will track west slowly with effects being felt in the Lockyer Valley and Darling Downs on Friday afternoon.

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled across South East Queensland and Northern NSW due to dangerous weather caused by Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

A young woman has been killed in a shooting west of Brisbane on Wednesday afternoon. The woman, aged in her 20s, received the fatal gunshot wounds at a property on Christmas St in North Toowoomba about 1.50pm. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Police at scene of fatal shooting in Toowoomba.

A woman is dead after a shooting in Toowoomba, with two major streets blocked off and residents being urged to stay inside.

Highlights:All Toowoomba Regional Council facilities will close tomorrow, Friday 7 March, 2025, until further noticeTRC Customer Service Call Centre

Detectives are continuing the investigation into the shooting of a 27-year-old in front of a North Toowoomba home on Wednesday.

Highlights:The safest place for almost all residents of the Toowoomba Region on Friday and across the weekend will be in their own homes.We are not

The most serious incident occurred west of Toowoomba where a teenager a struck by a car on the streets of Gatton. The Queensland Ambulance responded to the vehicle and pedestrian incident on Railway Street just before 11pm on Saturday, March 1.

An affordable build-to-rent development proposed for a car park in regional Queensland has won fast-tracked approval from the state government. The Brisbane Housing Company project in Toowoomba City will replace a car park on Station Street.