Local, national and world news for Central Queensland, QLD | Saturday 17 May, 2008
Grim fight for flood payouts drags on
EVEN if you didn't have flood cover, lodge a claim with your insurer. When that gets rejected, appeal the decision. Take it all the way to the top, the Insurance Ombudsman, and if it gets knocked back, consider your legal options. That's if you've got enough fight left in you. Anger, pain and bewilderment...-
$5 million weather radar part of Budget package for Flynn
EMERALD is no longer a severe weather blackspot, with the Federal Government funding of a new $5 million weather radar... -
Ensham pumps water back into Nogoa RiverI
IN an ironic twist, floodwaters which ended a five-year drought and remain trapped in the Ensham Coal Mine are now being... -
The countdown is on for the CH show circuit
NEXT week Alpha will kick off the Central Highlands Show Circuit. The much-anticipated event will start on Monday and run... -
Mackay Cup stolen by a local top dog
HORSES and camels have been stealing the limelight on the racing scene but it's all about to change after one Emerald... -
Emerald's acrobatic wonders
WHOEVER said Australia's regional areas are the breeding ground for top sportsmen and women knew what they were talking...
Australian news
MP joins Terri Irwin's battle against mine
Coast MP Carolyn Male has called on Brisbane-based Cape Alumina to scrap its plans to mine bauxite on the Steve Irwin Wildlife ?Reserve.Child killer Valmae Beck's condition improves
Notorious child killer Valmae Beck is in a stable condition in Townsville Hospital, almost three weeks after she was reportedly on death?s door.'Snot a flatworm, it's a new jellyfish
It looks like snot, it's the size of a grain of rice, and it's taking the marine science world by storm.Police charge 14 in outlaw gang raids
Fourteen people have been charged in a two-day police operation targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs on the Sunshine Coast.
World news
Iraq army rounds up al-Qaeda suspects
Iraqi security forces carried out mass arrests in the main city of Mosul as a major crackdown against al-Qaeda entered its second day, officials say.China battling epidemics in quake zone
China says no major disease outbreaks have been reported in the earthquake zone but warns a battle against epidemics is only just beginning.Mokbel expected to fly to Australia
Drug baron Tony Mokbel is expected to begin his much-anticipated return to Australia from Greece on Friday.At least 71,000 dead in Burma crisis
The UN called an emergency summit on Burma's aid crisis, as the junta dug in its heels saying it would not bow to pressure to let in foreign aid workers.