Wivenhoe Art Trail is set to tempt visitors back into studios, front rooms and shared spaces for the bank holiday weekend.

A "beautiful" 120-year-old oak tree is to be chopped down after a four-year row between a council and insurers. Campaigners have been left angered by the decision affecting the Old King George oak in ...

WIVENHOE managers will let the dam refill to capacity after holding levels in its drinking water storage compartment at 75 per cent since late February. The mass release of a year's supply of drinking ...

The Wivenhoe pumped hydro power station in Queensland should be making huge profits. By our analysis, if it had run flat out in the late afternoon window this summer – from 4.30pm to 7pm – it would ...

THE State Government should speed up plans to reduce Wivenhoe Dam to 75 per cent capacity, an Ipswich councillor says. Flood victim Paul Tully, whose Goodna family home was destroyed by last year's ...

Water Minister Mark McArdle said today he had decided not to temporarily lower Wivenhoe and North Pine, although the option would remain open. Wivenhoe's 1.42 million megalitre flood mitigation ...

THE flood threat to Brisbane has worsened, with the volumes of water heading to the capital far exceeding catastrophic 1974 flows. A disaster management committee source said the expected volumes were ...

The ferry has been carrying passengers for more than 30 years Volunteers have appealed for help to buy a new boat in order to keep their community ferry running after more than 30 years of service.

A town's mayor said a council had gone as far as it could to save a 120-year-old oak tree from being felled. Insurer Aviva said the roots of the oak tree in Wivenhoe, near Colchester, have been ...

South-east Queensland's largest dam has been releasing water for a week to help increase its capacity for the upcoming wet season. Water Minister Glenn Butcher ordered Wivenhoe Dam's drinking water ...