Australia A blitz India A in Townsville and other top stories.

• Australia A blitz India A in Townsville

  

  Australia A have cruised to an eight-wicket victory in their opening match against India A in the Quadrangular A Series in Townsville, thanks to a Chris Tremain masterclass with the ball. The Victorian quick was the catalyst as India capitulated for 55, taking a match-winning 5-25 including a spell of 5-16 in three overs. Tricky Tremain snares five South Australia’s fast bowler Dan Worrall was also sublime, taking 4-26 at the other end, with Michael Neser (1-4) the other wicket taker - and ..

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• Bosses slow to sign up

  

  THE State Government is struggling to sell its landmark $100-million regional jobs package with only two Townsville businesses successfully applying for the program.In June, Treasurer Curtis Pitt unveiled the Back to Work program as a key policy in his Budget to kickstart the state’s flagging economy outside southeast Queensland.The program provides employer-support payments up to $15,000 for bosses who hire and keep someone employed for at least 12 months.But since the start of August, when fun..

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• Hosing in the dark a danger to community

  TOWNSVILLE City Council needs to show some flexibility with its allocated watering times during Level 3 restrictions.Residents are now only allowed to hand-water for two days every week, between 6pm and 8pm.However, at this time of the year the 6pm to 8pm timeslot is too late.Last night, sunset was 6pm, with last light within 30 minutes of that, which means people out watering had about 30 minutes in fading light and about 90 minutes in darkness to look after their plants and lawns.This makes it..

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• Staff learn of suicide risks

  

  TOWNSVILLE Hospital Emergency Department staff are under­going new risk identification training to improve the capacity of the North’s major hospital to respond to suicide threats in care.The training comes after increased presentations to the city’s only public emergency facility, leading to a corresponding rise in potential mental health risks.The Townsville Hospital ED recorded 79,391 presentations from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, an increase of 3150 on the previous financial year.Townsvil..

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• Boy bees in airborne honey trap

  

  WITH large helium-filled balloons, metres of fishing line and sex pheromones, the Queensland Government is on the hunt for an infamous insect. In an attempt to eradicate varroa mites from Townsville, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries has deployed balloon bee traps across the region.The mites were found on Asian honey bees at Townsville Port and Annandale this year and have the potential to damage the Australian bee industry.The traps will be baited with a sex pheromone, which male bees..

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• Air strike kills 10 children in Yemen

  At least 10 children have been killed and 21 injured in northern Yemen, aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres says, in what the country's dominant Houthi group claims was a Saudi-led air strike on a school.The tragedy occurred as Yemen's parliament convened for the first time in almost two years, in a move that bolsters the Houthi movement and challenges the Saudi-backed exiled government.A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition had no comment on Saturday's attack. Saudi Arabia and its allies have l..

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• NPS young guns stun South Africa A

  

  Australia's National Performance Squad (NPS) have held their nerve to defeat South Africa A by 17 runs in a thrilling opening to the Quadrangular 'A' Series in Townsville.  Queensland batsman Sam Heazlett proved the difference between the sides and the South Africans were rendered powerless as the 20-year-old plundered 101 from just 87 balls in a man-of-the-match performance that helped the NPS to 8-243. Heazlett scores impressive ton in Townsville The 19-year-old David Grant, who has secure..

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• Safety plea after third person dies on Far North roads in two days

  

  A THIRD person has died from a crash on Far North roads in the space of 36 hours as police implore motorists to be safe behind the wheel.Just hours after police confirmed the death of Dimbulah teenager Elyse Miller-Kennedy, a week after she was involved in a collision, it was also confirmed a Townsville man had died behind the wheel of a cement truck south of Tully.It came a day after a 31-year-old man died after he was struck by a vehicle while walking on Aeroglen Dr in Cairns on Wednesday nigh..

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