Amanda Camm insisted the decision to step down was due to her health, but it followed a spate of highly publicised incidents.

With up to 250 millimetres of rain bucketing on south-east Queensland in a day, the region’s wet weather will go out with a bang.

While a storm over Caboolture dumped 170 millimetres of rain on nearby suburbs, a second storm forms as an “unstable” system dominates the region.

Ajay Malik, 37, remains in hospital after two dogs mauled him in a Chermside park.

The government says fewer children are getting hurt in e-scooter crashes.

A council worker discovered a man’s decomposing body in the Chermside park at the weekend.