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A man has suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash on the Logan Motorway.He was struck by a truck in the eastbound lanes about 1.20am on Thursday.The Logan Motorway was closed on Thursday morning.Credit: Nine NewsThe motorway was closed in all directions following the crash.The westbound lanes opened about 5.30am.One patient was assessed and did not require transport to hospital, a Queensland Ambulance Services spokesperson said.Diversions remain in place at Wembley Road for eastbound traffic.Latest postsLatest postsBrisbane International Film Festival’s belated 2025 return has been announced for November in its shortest iteration to date.Taking place across just four days (November 27-30), BIFF will screen 60 films including five galas held in unusual locations with special guests in attendance.Audiences at the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF).Credit: Screen Queensland“Audiences will have the chance to meet and mingle with incredible industry leaders from across the globe,” the new artistic director, Sophie Mathisen, said.As well as in cinemas, screenings will take place at Streets Beach (Jaws plus Brisbane-made shark thriller Beast of War); The Star Brisbane’s Leisure Deck (ocean documentary A Life Illuminated); and South Bank Piazza (It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley followed by a live concert featuring Katie Noonan).Mad Max filmmaker Dr George Miller is returning as festival patron to present a screening of 1970 Robert Altman classic M*A*S*H.Tickets are on sale now.A worker is accused of stealing an elderly man’s debit card at an aged care home in Redland Bay, and racking up thousands of dollars.Police allege a 40-year-old woman stole the 104-year-old’s debit card and used it to make personal purchases and withdrawals between August 19 and 21.Another employee reported the card missing after the elderly man brought it to their attention.“The woman’s unauthorised transactions from the elderly victim’s debit card accumulated to thousands of dollars,” police allege.She was arrested at a home in Birkdale on Tuesday and charged with 40 counts of stealing.She is due to appear before Cleveland Magistrates Court on November 11. The first aerial mosquito spray for the season will start this morning, with about 500 hectares to be treated.The spray will take off from Myrtletown Reserve in Pinkenba, and follows recent rain which has led to a small burst of saltmarsh mosquitos on Brisbane’s southside.The council activates its aerial spraying program when entomologists advise there has been a saltmarsh mosquito hatch.Ground spray teams work every week of the year, targeting up to 2400 known freshwater mosquito breeding sites across the suburbs.Last year, 12 aerial treatments were done between October and March, covering more than 16,000 hectares.The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted above-average rain for south-east Queensland between November and January, which will lead to an increase in mosquitos.The aerial spray today will cover areas, including Port of Brisbane, Pinkenba, Tingalpa, Hemmant and along Bulimba and Tingalpa creeks as well as Mud Island, St Helena Island and Green Island. Advertisement The home of an unlicensed man who allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel on a major highway before fleeing police has been searched.Officers reported finding large quantities of party drugs, and the 28-year-old from Greenbank was arrested.About 7.15am on Sunday, the man’s Holden Commodore was found stopped on the shoulder of Mount Lindesay Highway at Browns Plains.Queensland Police charged a man with several offences after finding him allegedly asleep behind the wheel of a Holden Commodore in Browns Plains.Credit: Queensland Police ServiceWhen police approached the vehicle, the driver was allegedly found asleep behind the wheel.The man allegedly sped off, but was later tracked to a Greenbank residence. The vehicle was found in the driveway, allegedly containing meth and MDMA.He was arrested and charged with drug possession, keeping counterfeit money, driving unregistered and driving without a licence.The man will appear at Beenleigh Magistrates Court on December 4.A man has suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash on the Logan Motorway.He was struck by a truck in the eastbound lanes about 1.20am on Thursday.The Logan Motorway was closed on Thursday morning.Credit: Nine NewsThe motorway was closed in all directions following the crash.The westbound lanes opened about 5.30am.One patient was assessed and did not require transport to hospital, a Queensland Ambulance Services spokesperson said.Diversions remain in place at Wembley Road for eastbound traffic.Brisbane is in the firing line for the third consecutive weekend, with powerful “supercell” storms forecast for Saturday.“We are looking at several unsettled, unstable days to come, with the real peak on Saturday,” Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Shane Kennedy says.In the meantime, a storm is forecast for the River City today, with a top of 26 degrees on an otherwise overcast day.So far this month, Brisbane has received 99.2 millimetres of rain, exceeding the monthly average of 85.8 millimetres.That comes after Brisbane’s driest September in 38 years, with the city recording just 0.8 millimetres of rain.Here’s the seven-day outlook: Advertisement Here’s what’s making news further afield:Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dined alongside US President Donald Trump and leaders from an assortment of Asia-Pacific nations as leaders gather this week for the ASEAN and APEC summits. It preceded a high-stakes meeting between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping set to be held later today.Australians have lost their faith in the Bureau of Meteorology after its hated website upgrade, the Albanese government has declared, as senior ministers call in the agency’s chief to explain how its $4.1 million project sparked community outrage.An Australian man living in the US faces a possible jail sentence after pleading guilty to stealing defence trade secrets from his American employer for a Russian broker. The aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.Credit: Nine NewsHurricane Melissa has claimed dozens of lives in Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica. Melissa made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm with top winds of 295km/h, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, before weakening and moving on to Cuba. It has now been downgraded to a category 2 storm, but has left widespread destruction across Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba.Two men who were arrested over jewels stolen in a brazen heist at the Louvre Museum will be charged for theft by an organised gang. The royal necklaces, tiaras and earrings stolen haven’t been found yet.The Federal Reserve has cut its key interest rate for a second time this year, seeking to shore up economic growth and hiring even as inflation stays elevated. Chair Jerome Powell said there were “strongly differing views about how to proceed in December” at the policy meeting and a further reduction in rates is not “a foregone conclusion ... far from it”. Powell’s comments sent Wall Street sharply lower.Good morning and welcome to Brisbane Times’ news blog for Thursday, October 30. Don’t be deceived by yesterday’s blue skies and balmy maximum of 27 degrees – highly volatile conditions are forecast over the next three days, and a “supercell Saturday” is predicted.Here are this morning’s local headlines:Jesse Beale was arrested and charged over the alleged murder of his former wife Crystal Beale.Credit: FacebookDespite an issue with the ancient history exam topic being uncovered at Rochedale State High School two months ago, and flagged with departmental officials, it appears there were no attempts to investigate the cause of the mix-up and ensure other schools had not also taught the wrong topic.A man accused of killing his ex-wife and dumping her body in the Brisbane River allegedly kept images of her being sexually assaulted while unconscious on a device, a court has heard.The Queensland government’s new energy plan is a “deliberate strategy” to undermine renewable development, one industry body says.The Queensland government will face another legal push against its pause on gender-affirming care for children, with the organisation behind this week’s successful ruling confirming fresh action to fight Health Minister Tim Nicholls’ new directive.And Halloween is nearly here, so we’ve compiled some of the top events happening around Bris-boo-ne.
