A SKIER who witnessed his friend plunge 600m to his death near the summit of Aoraki-Mt Cook has given a first, harrowing...
08th Nov. 2013 11:11 AM
THE body of a Howard man, trapped in the Pike River mine in New Zealand for almost three years, might be coming home next...
23rd Oct. 2013 5:10 AM
A FEW days after a fire destroyed the Balgowans’ home and livelihood, the shock has subsided and reality is starting to...
19th Oct. 2013 6:10 AM
THE young girl at the centre of a family tragedy in Coolum last month that left her parents and an uncle dead will be...
12th Sept. 2013 6:09 AM
THE young man who allegedly drove the ute his best friend was thrown from has been charged over his death.
21st Aug. 2013 12:08 PM
WALKING into Jason McGill’s new shop feels like a childhood trip to the butchers.
10th Aug. 2013 11:08 AM
He would have turned 19 on August 16. Instead, Liam Arndt's family is raising money to bring him home after he was killed...
08th Aug. 2013 5:08 AM
TREVOR Woodeson spends his day moving furniture, but it was a tragic house fire last week that got the Rockhampton man...
25th June 2013 5:06 AM
THE family of Karen Williams couldn’t believe their eyes when the doctor performing surgery on her burst out of the...
05th June 2013 12:06 PM
THE LOWDOWN: Rebecca Danslow, who reported on Emma Green losing her baby last week, discusses the role...
20th May 2013 11:05 AM
THE family of a young woman who fell from a cruise ship say she was not drinking beforehand and do not believe it was...
13th May 2013 4:05 AM
A GATTON man has been hailed as a hero after a camping adventure with friends turned into tragedy at the weekend.
17th Dec. 2012 6:12 AM
NEW Zealand's longest-serving police officer saw his wife and best mate drown the day before his daughter's wedding in...
14th Dec. 2012 5:12 AM
A SENIOR Toowoomba police officer said cyber bullying via social media was one of the biggest issues facing modern...
22nd Nov. 2012 5:11 AM
PARENTS involved in tragedies can pass their trauma-related biological functioning onto their children, Queensland's Child...
09th Nov. 2012 10:11 AM
PARENTS of Stanthorpe-born Sean Scovell, the latest Queensland mining fatality, are out to share their story and in the...
20th Sept. 2012 9:09 AM
A GYMPIE family is trying to come to terms with the tragic drowning of a two-year-old boy on a Western Downs property at...
31st July 2012 2:07 AM
WHAT sort of tragedy would it take for the powers that be to fast-track the duplication of the Pacific Hwy?
15th June 2012 11:06 AM
MATT Golinski continues to make an amazing recovery, preparing meals for his parents and making brief public appearances...
10th June 2012 5:06 AM
A baby has died following the head-on crash on the Pacific Highway at Emerald Beach on Friday.
26th May 2012 11:05 PM
AT LEAST one positive has come from the Boxing Day house fire tragedy that claimed the lives of Matt Golinski's wife and...
11th March 2012 4:03 AM
MORE than a month on from the Tewantin tragedy which claimed the lives of Rachael Golinski and her three daughters – the...
03rd Feb. 2012 6:02 AM
EVEN a cursory glance over The Observer this week might leave you feeling a little down in the dumps.
19th Jan. 2012 9:01 AM
THE Sunshine Coast's ballooning community is still reeling in the wake of the New Zealand hot-air balloon tragedy.
09th Jan. 2012 2:01 AM
THE chilling screams of little girls and a distraught father in a Tewantin street on Boxing Day will become the “stuff of...
27th Dec. 2011 2:12 AM
A TOOWOOMBA couple is grieving and searching for answers after their daughter apparently murdered their granddaughter...
09th Sept. 2011 2:09 AM
KOBY Hunter had an infectious smile and even in his Alligator Creek State School photo, taken just a few months ago, he...
29th Aug. 2011 2:08 AM
GRIEF-stricken family and friends gathered in Toowoomba to farewell Sam Matthews who was killed in a fire at his Murphys...
10th Aug. 2011 3:08 PM
THE ambulance driver who escaped a freak accident would have received further confirmation on how lucky he is if he saw a...
23rd July 2011 2:07 AM
THE sudden, tragic death of Halley Appleby this week as a result of injuries sustained during a game of footy has touched...
22nd July 2011 2:07 AM
A 13m fishing vessel was successfully refloated after it struck a reef off the Capricorn Coast on Saturday and started...
13th June 2011 2:06 AM
IS it just me or does everyone pray they never receive a 3am phone call from the police?
13th May 2011 2:05 AM
