Top five things to do in Ipswich this weekend

Plan a visit to Ipswich's winning Christmas lights this weekend.

Keep entertained this weekend with Christmas events

Moggill Ferry should be replaced with bridge: councillors

MUSEUM PIECE: Cr Paul Tully says the Moggill Ferry crossing over the Brisbane River should be replaced with a bridge as part of a western ring road around Brisbane.

It is time for the State Government to pension off the Moggill Ferry

How not to give up on new year resolutions in 2016

It might be hard-going, but it will be worth sticking to fitness and health goals in the new year and there are ways to motivate yourself not to give up.

A life coach gives her advice to win at your new goals

 







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Severe storm moves towards Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley

A SEVERE thunderstorm is moving towards the Scenic Rim and Lockyer Valley, after marble sized hail smashed Warwick this afternoon.

Back to the Brass Helmet: Wall of Water

IN celebration of 150 years of firefighting in Ipswich, QT and QFES present a series of four videos. Here is the fourth in the series: Wall of Water.

Storms move to Toowoomba, thousands lose power in Brisbane

AROUND 17,000 homes in the Logan area are without power as a storm sweeps through south-east Queensland.

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Babes in Arms December 16

Jacinta and Kenneth Dela Cerna from Collingwood Park welcomed baby Jennaveve Payamuu Dela Cerna at the Ipswich Hospital on November 24.

This week's babies featured on the QT's Babes in Arms page.

Challinor Centre reunion

Former Challinor Place staff got together for a reunion at Brothers Leagues Club. From left, Alice Knudsen, Graham Frizzell, Bernie Brilton and Carol Moyle. Photo: David Nielsen / The Queensland Times

STAFF from Ipswich's Challinor Centre got together for a reunion at Brothers...

Ipswich City Lights

Best First Time Entrant Runner Up, 10 Pleasant Drive, Redbank Plains.

A selection of this year's Christmas lights competition winners in Ipswich and...

Pets of the Week

KARMA is a gentle Irish wolfhound who is just $99 to take home. She is two years and 11 months old and is desexed, microchipped, worm and flea treated.

Meet this week's pets at the Brisbane RSPCA Animal Care Campus in Wacol. The RSPCA...

12V tips: Five easy 4WD upgrades you can do at home

It’s a pretty safe bet there’s been more than a few divorces due to warm steaks, burnt fuses and wives tripping over tent pegs sticking out of the ground in the dark.

A few 12V upgrades can make 4WDing a whole lot more comfortable.

Camp cooking: Whip up a feast from whatever you've got

Roothy ready to get cooking on the campfire

Sometimes I just make things up to suit whatever’s in the truck.

A mechanical life: Roothy gives us a glimpse

Where it all started - on the verandah of the old homestead in the Flinders. Anthony Warry captured this photo of Roothy reflecting on a lifetime of playing with machines.

Roothy rolls the shed door back for a glimpse of his secret life …

The 4WD Recovery Handbook: Everything you need to know

Turn even the hairiest offroad situations into a non-event.

How to catch a feed in the middle of the desert

Kenno and his magic desert catch

Catching a feed in the middle of a desert

LandCruiser 79: How LowRange's Gleno gave it the berries

Gleno tweaks the chip on his LC79

Now Gleno’s 79 has the bite to match its bark.

Santa Visits Ipswich Hospital

The Ipswich Hospital Foundation held a special Christmas lunch at the Ipswich Hospital Children's Ward. Emilly Crookes, 6, with her brother Brandon, 10, of Lowood. Photo: David Nielsen / The Queensland Times

The Ipswich Hospital Foundation held a special Christmas lunch at the Ipswich...

Inala Skate Park Upgrade

The Inala Skate Park in DJ Sherrington Park received a $500,000 upgrade. George Richardson shows off some of his skills. Photo: David Nielsen / The Queensland Times

The Inala Skate Park in DJ Sherrington Park received a $500,000 upgrade. Video:...

Railway maintenance centre

Wulkuraka railway maintenance centre. Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) New Generation Rollingstock (NGR) Program Director, Stuart Langan explains that Road 4 in the maintenance building will be used to maintain or replace equipment of the top of trains. Photo Inga Williams / The Queensland Times

The Queensland Times took a tour of the new Wulkuraka railway maintenance...

Gen Y face tough choices with home ownership

HOME PLANS: Rockhampton’s Nicola Berg, pictured with partner Tim Mills, says she’s keen to buy a home and raise a family.

Young people putting life goals on hold in order to afford mortgages.

Gladstone makes list of Dirty Dozen suburbs to avoid

I Love Tannum Feature. Photo Paul Braven / The Observer

List takes sales, vacancies, prices into account to predict trends

Ipswich housing prices at strongest level in several years

ARE YOU ALL DONE: Auctioneer Philip Parker knocks down a property at the Ray White auction on Friday afternoon.

The bad days of a slow housing market are over for Ipswich

University of NSW develops "dialysis for cancer" system

Isolation of cancer cells from normal blood cells

New system could dramatically lower cost of treating cancer

Porsche's ballistic electric mission

PORSCHE'S FUTURE: Tesla Model S rivalling performance and a 500km electric range promised for the confirmed for production Porsche Mission E all-electric sportscar

Mission E confirmed and will be on our road by the end of the decade

EULOGY: Love blossomed at an Ipswich dance in the 1980s

Hally and Doreen Herrmann enjoyed 32 beautiful years of marriage.

Love blossomed even after Doreen discovered Hally had six children