Community sport is facing a risk of going under after covid lands teams in financial strife. 

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced Auckland will move into level 3 restrictions. Ms Ardern said the Covid restrictions will be taken down from level 4 to level 3 tonight at 11:59pm. 

Plans for a 1950’s American style diner is due to open in Chermside 

The development will take place at the corners of Abarth St, Wallace St and Gympie road on a 2897 square metre site.

The triple zero line is being flooded with recipe requests and street directions. 

The Queensland police have revealed that only 13.67 percent of calls made through the triple zero phone line are deemed emergencies. 

The Brisbane City Council has waived 172 parking fines issued to drivers with disability permits.

The Council is investigating its parking ticket technology after incorrectly issuing fines to drivers.

Woolworths will be the first to trial a new form of packaging on its shelves. Recycling start-up Samsara has plans to open a new recycling plant which will use enzymes to eat plastic and break it down into molecules to be reused. The technology developed at the Australian National University will eliminate single use plastic. 

Victoria is home to its first Aboriginal-owned solar farm, due to be completed next year.

A paddock, which has remained vacant for over a decade, will soon become the site of the state’s first indigenous-owned solar farm. The block in eastern Victoria’s Gippsland region will contain solar panels, as the region moves toward cleaner energy. 

The United States have announced they will lift the covid travel ban for fully vaccinated UK passengers. 

From early November, passengers from the UK and most of the EU will be able to travel to the US. Currently only US citizens, green-card holders and those with exemptions can travel freely to the US.