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The old Albion quarry, since replaced with suburban houses.

Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil found in a Brisbane suburb

As a Brisbane schoolboy, Bruce Runnegar unearthed a fossil in a suburban quarry. He kept it for 68 years, taking it with him all over the world, never imagining he was carrying something 230 million years old.

  • Marissa Calligeros

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Emergency services at the scene of a crash near Wooloowin train station in northern Brisbane, where a car crashed through a fence and onto the railway line. December 16, 2025.

Major Brisbane train outage after car crashes onto tracks

The city’s rail network has been disrupted for most of the afternoon after a driver crashed through a fence and onto the tracks at Wooloowin.

  • Dominique Tassell
Properties in some of the most sought-after streets in Brisbane and the Gold Coast could be seized after a long-running tax dispute.

The state government tried to seize Ted Amos’ multimillion-dollar properties. So he claimed they were in trust

For more than a decade, the Brisbane property mogul has been locked in a battle over unpaid land tax and court costs with the Queensland government.

  • Marissa Calligeros and Sean Parnell
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner (right) with Andrew Liveris, president of the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic Games.

‘Rewriting history’: Schrinner adamant new stadium was always planned

The lord mayor has rejected claims Brisbane was never meant to have a new Olympic stadium. And he wants all options considered – even Albion, again.

  • William Davis
An artist’s impression of the new facilities planned at Crosby Park in Albion under a deal between Brisbane City Council and Brothers Rugby Club.

New vision for Brisbane sports precinct after changes to Games plan

Brisbane City Council has struck a long-term deal with one of the tenants of a suburban sporting precinct that will no longer host Olympic events in 2032.

  • Sean Parnell
Brisbane’s Albion Park Raceway, pictured in 2017, is set to be redeveloped after the Queensland government agreed to move the planned Brisbane Indoor Sport Centre.

Albion Park set for major redevelopment after getting out of the Games

Albion Park was going to have an Olympic stadium, then an indoor sport centre, but will at least keep its racetrack under a planned redevelopment of the inner-city site.

  • Sean Parnell
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The new Queensland Fire Department building at Albion, part of the Hudson Common redevelopment.

Its brutalist design may burn the eyes, but this Brisbane landmark will soon be fire HQ

The former TAB tower at Albion will be taken over by the fire department as part of a consolidation of government offices.

  • Sean Parnell
The Breakfast Creek Green Bridge, also known as Yowoggera, officially opened on Saturday,

Breakfast Creek Green Bridge opens, question mark hangs over two others

The first of Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner’s promised green bridges officially opened on Saturday, but funding doubts remain over two others.

  • Cameron Atfield
Industry Corp has applied to build a 14-storey tower at the mouth of Breakfast Creek.

Brekky Creek pub sandwich: Another tower planned near famous hotel

The Breakfast Creek Hotel could have another big neighbour, with plans lodged for a new residential development 40 per cent higher than local zoning allowed.

  • Cameron Atfield
Place Design Group has submitted plans for a 17-storey residential development next to Brisbane’s famous Breakfast Creek Hotel.

Proposed tower to put Breakfast Creek arvo sessions in the shade

Drinkers who enjoy a quiet off-the-wood XXXX in the afternoon sun will find themselves in the shade for several months a year if plans for a 17-storey tower are approved.

  • Cameron Atfield