THICK fog has cleared and flights in and out of Brisbane Airport have resumed but it will be a while before they return to normal.

POLICE are furious at Anna Bligh's suggestion officers will have to be more flexible and productive if they expect a pay rise of more than 2.5 per cent.

LABOR'S campaign is reeling as former leader Mark Latham blames Julia Gillard for mishandling leadership fallout.

HORDES of Apple fans swarmed stores in anticipation of the iPhone 4 launch, but Australian accessory makers are concerned they will be cut out of a lucrative market.

NEW results smashed the state's first case of DNA innocence testing after finding a man was 45 billion times more likely to be linked to blood from the scene.

LIVES would have been saved had Jayant Patel's supervisor properly probed complaints by medical staff, health tribunal documents say.

ABOUT 300,000 extra homes and businesses will get broadband speeds 100 times faster than today's technology after the Gillard Government decided to extend its optical fibre rollout.

QUEENSLAND is facing another gas plant contamination scare that has already forced a family off its 1000ha cattle property at Kogan, near Dalby.

MUSIC lovers are facing a frustrating trip to this weekend's Splendour in the Grass festival, with major roads around the Woodford site brought to a standstill.

A 25-year-old man who allegedly brandished a tyre lever during an attempted burglary in South Hedland this morning was tasered by police.

WA Returned and Services League president Bill Gaynor has called on whichever party wins the election to bolster border security.

WA is a big State and its population is rapidly growing bigger.

At least eight comedians and comedy industry professionals are heading to Edinburgh's famous Fringe Festival.

For Applecross student Stanton Cornish-Ward, op-shops, markets and garage sales are a treasure trove of bargains.

Recreational fishermen and scientists have called on the State Government to fast-track marine protection over a section of Broome's Roebuck Bay after evidence that its rare dolphin population is suffering devastating wounds from boats and fishing gear.

A month after the Sundance Resources plane crash that killed four WA mining directors, a newly formed not-for-profit group wants to establish a monument to acknowledge the industry's contribution to WA.

A prison guard who gave confidential details of inmates to the Rebels motorcycle gang has good morals and beliefs but was led astray by his desire to impress his bikie friends, Magistrate Pamela Hogan said yesterday.

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THE share market opened lower today, after conflicting economic signals in the US provoked falls on Wall Street overnight.

FOUR people are stranded on a boat floating 50km off the Victorian coast in Bass Strait with complete engine failure.

A PRINCES Cruises ship operating in Alaska has fatally struck a juvenile humpback whale.

GRAINCORP and AWB have said that the two companies will merge to create one of Australia's largest diversified agribusinesses.

A POLICEMAN was made to pay a $5 admission fee to get into the county fair so he could make an arrest.

A MAN has been reunited with his long-lost gun more than two decades after it was stolen.

VICTORIA'S building industry posted a record high 113,670 building permits worth $23.9 billion in the past financial year.

A SPANISH judge re-issues warrants for three US soldiers over the death of a TV cameraman in Iraq seven years ago.

THE Federal Coalition is planning to make 2012 the Year of Meals on Wheels if it wins the August 21 poll.

Three ''exceptional'' heatwaves across Australia in 2009 helped make it the nation's second hottest year on record and contributed to a new worldwide report which has found global warming is for real and has not ''stopped'', as some sceptics have suggested.

A huge groundswell of anger is brewing among residents of Canberra's inner suburbs over unit developments.

A 19-year-old man arrested over a theft of trees at the National Arboretum has been remanded in custody.

Australia's ski resorts have recorded the thinnest snow cover in two decades and hopes are pinned on a predicted cold front to turn things around on Sunday.

Australia will experience a shortage of residential aged-care places within five years unless funding arrangements for the sector are overhauled, according to a peak body for aged- care providers.

Canberra house prices are expected to grow at the fastest rate in the nation over the next year, but the market is quickly losing steam, a new report says.

A rapid increase in temporary visas, mainly for international students, has boosted Australia's net migration levels to a record high, a new report shows.

The Canberra Raiders are set to salvage a key piece from the wreckage of the salary cap-cheating Melbourne Storm, luring prop Brett White to the capital next season.

New Zealand flyhalf Daniel Carter is the All Blacks's weak link and vulnerable to constant defensive pressure, former Wallabies coach Eddie Jones says.

LABOR campaign reeling as former leader blames Gillard for mishandling leadership fallout.

MAN found bloodied and motionless after allegedly getting bashed with metal scaffolding in Oxford St.

IT IS Sydney's best-kept secret - the lowest point of the weekly petrol cycle has moved again.

CABBIE accused of kidnap with help of wife and parents - after passenger vomited during ride.

WE'VE heard a lot about the iPhone 4 ahead of its Australian launch - but here's our verdict. Video

MOTORISTS urged to be careful on the road after heavy fog causes havoc at Sydney airport. Do you have pics?

DOCTORS should stop mincing their words and tell the overweight they are "fat", a peak doctors' group has said. Do you agree?

THE question now is can this photo from circa 1910 lay claim to being the earliest image of surfing off Australian shores?

JOHN Della Bosca will resign today and has left with a parting swipe at the PM's climate policies.