A city lawyer says body corporates are facing a losing battle against owners of residential unit properties who want to keep pets.

Queensland Health will force families of future public palliative care patients in the western corridor to travel to QEII Hospital to visit loved ones after closing publicly funded palliative care beds at Canossa Private Hospital in Oxley. 

Kalinga Park and Diggers Drive have been nominated for inclusion on the Queensland Heritage Register in an attempt to protect them from the Airport Link tunnel development.

A woman hooked up to an oxygen machine for 16 hours a day fears she may soon have to fend for herself on the streets.

Desperately ill pensioner Barbara Beves and her three pet terriers have been saved from a life on the street.

The toothy grin on the face of Collingwood Park seven-year-old Jake Beckman has been a long time coming.

Pallara residents want a community meeting with Parkinson ward councillor Angela Owen-Taylor to ''clear the air'' over the Draft Lower Oxley Creek South Neighbourhood Plan.

A taxi shortage in the southwest has left residents stranded at shopping centres and entertainment venues for up to four hours.

Residents are ramping up protests over a plan to build 20 townhouses at Oxley. Brisbane City Council rejected pleas when it sold the land, used as a park for 40 years, for $1.5 million.

Mater Health Services and the University of Queensland have signed as major partners in the Springfield Health City project.

Two environmental scientists hold grave concerns for the health of the Oxley Creek catchment after conducting studies of the flood-hit area.

City youth are risking death and date rape through their increased use of party drugs, authorities warn.

The safety of local disabled youngsters is being jeopardised with booked taxi services arriving late or failing to turn up.

Drivers flouting parking rules at Springfield schools are creating traffic chaos and danger on a daily basis.