Rockhampton, Australia News

Two men have been arrested for blockading a joint Australian-US military exercise in central Queensland.

QUEENSLAND'S dam-boosting rains have also led to dangerous amounts of fuel for the bushfire season, according to the Fire and Rescue Service.

That hasn't been an everyday occurrence for Conway over the past few months. As artistic director of Queensland Music Festival, which begins on July 17, she has spent a lot of time away from home this year.

Anti-war protesters are gearing up to disrupt a massive military exercise involving nearly 30,000 Australian and US soldiers.

Lismore's Sabina Baltruweit has been invited to speak at the Peace Convergence in Rockhampton this weekend about her Remembering and Healing Old Wounds project.

A health and safety investigator says delays in getting information from police hampered the probe into a drowning at a public swimming pool two years ago.

A RECORD $40 million is up for grabs tonight and anyone interested in landing the big prize might want to consider these numbers.

Australian and US troops will have to fight off more than a mythical invasion force as they undertake a huge military exercise in central Queensland in July.

A prisoner in a central Queensland jail has been confirmed as having swine flu. Queensland Corrective Services said a 27-year-old offender from the Capricornia Correction Centre in Rockhampton had tested positive for the influenza A virus.

Catholic Bishop of Rockhampton Brian Heenan says communion wine will continue to be available at masses.

Angry Rockhampton rugby league officials are continuing to hunt for a "cowardly person or persons" who fractured a young referee's skull with a rock after a junior match at Elizabeth Park last Sunday.

A MAN shot four times in the torso by police at the end of a 24-hour siege has been charged with seriously assaulting police and attempted murder.

A COW wandering onto a central Queensland highway has caused a four-car pile-up. An Emergency Services spokeswoman says a car struck the cow on the Capricorn Hwy near Dingo, west of Rockhampton, around 6.30pm last night.

A NORTH Queensland man who died after police used a Taser in an effort to subdue him was shot more than 20 times with the weapon, a report says.

Police have confirmed a man shot by officers in Rockhampton in central Queensland this morning had breached a domestic violence order.

Police were called to a domestic dispute after a utility was driven through the front fence of a house yesterday morning.

Some of Australia's richest men have taken to some of Australia's roughest outback roads to raise money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

THE prospect of a deal to develop clean power from coal in Queensland boosted shares in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Tokyo yesterday.

Queensland farmers are feeling abandoned by their state rail operator. The farmers have been battling to maintain freight services for years as a still-booming coal industry sucks up all available trains.

The University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies offered students a six-week "Peace and Activism Training Course" culminating in a trip to Queensland next month to disrupt Exercise Talisman Sabre.