Brisbane environmental groups are worried about a draft plan of the Brisbane Off-Road Cycling Strategy released by the Brisbane City Council.

The strategy proposes to open up 90 Brisbane bushland reserves for mountain biking and reduce the mountain biking traffic that is currently concentrated in MT Cootha.

The CEO of Amazon is stepping down after twenty-eight years at the head of the online retail company.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down from his role as the company’s top boss and transition to the role of executive chairman in the third quarter of 2021.

Greens councillor Jonathan Sri has been accused of offering to access council data on landlords.

The Brisbane City Council's councillor ethics committee met yesterday to discuss a complaint made to the Office of the Independent Assessor and found "on balance" that he had acted inappropriately.

Japan is extending a state of emergency to assist in decreasing the number of cases of COVID-19 in the country.

Japan’s Prime Minister Suga announced yesterday, extending the state of emergency until 7 March while Tokyo, the capital of the country, recorded 556 new coronavirus cases a day. 

Adani Australia has been ordered to pay a $2000 fine and make a public apology after losing a defamation case against an anti-fossil fuels activist, Scott Daines.

Adani was found to have falsely accused Scott Daines and other members of the Frontline Action on Coal of throwing rocks and damaging Adani workers’ cars after a protest in October last year. 

A Boeing 737 equipped with a water tanker is being sent to fire ravaged parts of Perth in WA. 

71 homes and 9,000 hectares of land have been destroyed since the fire started on Monday night. The bushfire is expected to worsen today because of changing wind conditions, with winds potentially reaching 70 kilometers per hour.

Brisbane City Council has announced the reconstruction of Vic Lucas Canoe Ramp which is crucial to recreational canoeing and sailing.

Yesterday the council finished its geotechnical investigations and will commence the works on 23 February. The council says the project finishes by Monday 22 March as planned.

The Refugee Action Collective are holding a rally this Friday 5 February in Kangaroo Point to call on the government to free medevaced refugees.

The medevac legislation was established in early 2019 and refugees have been detained in a kangaroo point hotel since, prior to that they were detained in offshore detention centres since 2013.

Researchers at the Royal Brisbane and women's hospital in Brisbane are developing a new, more efficient test to detect gestational diabetes.  

Currently, testing for gestational diabetes requires women to fast for 8 to 14 hours, then take 3 blood tests in 3 hours.