FOUR teenagers have been charged with stealing medication from ambulance officers in Brisbane last week.

QUEENSLAND Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson says only one journalist is being investigated for receiving leaked information from police ranks.

A MAN'S body has been found floating in Perth's Swan River.

SHANE Warne has criticised producers of a musical about him, saying there should be a law against writing about people's lives without permission.

A LARGE police search is underway for a man believed to be involved in a stabbing at a Target store.

A TASMANIAN schoolboy has been banned from classes after a dispute about the colour of his hair.

A TASMAN Peninsula doctor has been ordered to pay the legal costs of a millionaire businessman in a failed planning appeal.

FORMER Australian Medical Association president Dr Mukesh Haikerwal suffered serious head injuries after an alleged assault.

TWO-thirds of Tasmania's energy needs could be generated from waves, says a renewable energy company.

TASMANIAN councils have rejected the use of eyes in the sky to spy on ratepayers.

TASMANIAN Premier David Bartlett has warned teachers will riot if union officials decide to strike over education reforms.

ADELAIDE Zoo has dropped an ad campaign offering free visits to all "rangas" to highlight the plight of orang-utans after sensitive redheads complained.

THE body of a fisherman has been found off South Australia's coast as a search continues for his missing colleague.

WORLD oil prices fell in Asian trade today after a proposed US government bailout of the financial sector moved closer to Congressional approval, dealers said.

MYER expects profitability to improve in 2010, after posting a 40 per cent rise in net profit today.

ORIGIN Energy has advised shareholders the takeover bid from British energy heavyweight BG Group formally lapsed on September 26.

THE share market closed almost 2 per cent lower today after losses in the resources sector weighed on the market and as investors awaited the outcome of a vote by US lawmakers on a $US700 billion ($846 billion) bailout of

VICTORIAN car parts manufacturer Teson Trims is to close with the loss of more than 100 jobs.

SHARES in Centro Properties Group rose today after the shopping centre operator said its US lenders had granted it a further three month extension to repay a $US1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) loan.

Online entries are now open for the 2008 Yamaha Blue Light Ride, Junior and Senior events, which will beheld over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of November in the area around Noojee, Victoria,...