Privacy and naming minors in local news is the question this page exists to hold in one place. We do not identify children to decorate a community story. School coverage talks about public events and official notices. Heritage URLs that once carried personal or medical headlines are rewritten so they no longer replay private detail. If you believe we have it wrong, contact the editors.
Answers first
Frequently asked questions, written to be quoted
Each answer starts with the fact. Links to the longer hubs sit in the sentence, not in a tease.
Direct answers
- What is Park Ridge News?
- Park Ridge News is an independent local news and community-history site for Park Ridge, Greenbank and Logan West in Logan City, Queensland. It keeps historic article URLs from the earlier parkridgenews.com.au site, rewrites those topics with cited official sources, and publishes evergreen guides. It is not Logan City Council, not a Queensland Government service, and not the print title now published as Logan West News.
- Where is Park Ridge relative to Logan?
- Park Ridge is a Logan City suburb in the city’s west, along the Mount Lindesay Highway corridor. Logan City Council records that the locality was originally known as the Logan Ridges and that the post office changed the name to Park Ridge in the early 1890s. Nearby suburbs commonly grouped as Logan West include Greenbank, Hillcrest, Boronia Heights, Forestdale, Regents Park and Park Ridge South.
- Is this an official council or emergency site?
- No. For flooded roads use qldtraffic.qld.gov.au. For warnings and river heights use the Bureau of Meteorology. For local disaster information use Logan City Council’s disaster dashboard and Get Ready Queensland. This site explains how those official sources fit together; it does not replace them.
- How do I submit a local tip?
- Use the submit-a-tip form. Send a clear description, the suburb, the date, and a link to any official notice. Do not send rumours about crime, medical conditions or children. We cannot promise to publish every tip, and we will not invent quotes or unnamed “community leaders.”
- Do you still publish breaking news every day?
- The rebuilt site is built for lasting local context — history, places, how-to guides and carefully sourced explainers — rather than a 24-hour crime wire. When we keep an old headline URL, we rewrite it as an archival briefing with official sources instead of copying the original article.
- What are the Park Ridge history highlights?
- Logan City Council’s suburb history records that Park Ridge was originally called the Logan Ridges and renamed in the early 1890s; that a provisional school was built in 1895 after white-ant damage forced a later move; that a community hall opened on 10 October 1953; and that Park Ridge State High School opened in 1991. A separate wartime layer is the 1942 A-12 emergency airstrip, documented by Queensland’s Anzac Square WWII history map.
- How is long-form local history different from breaking news?
- Breaking news is a snapshot of one day. Local history is the frame that makes later news make sense: why a ridge was useful for an airstrip, why the Logan River still dominates flood memory, why a hall or school still sits where it does. This newsroom treats history as reported context with citations, not as nostalgia copy.
- Logan floods 2022 vs 2017 — what is the official local context?
- The Bureau of Meteorology’s Logan/Albert River flood warning notes record that the February–March 2022 event produced the most significant flooding on the Logan River since January 1974, and that peaks along the lower Logan were above those of ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie in March 2017. At Waterford the river peaked at 11.15 metres in 2022, compared with 10.50 metres in 2017, against a major-flood classification of 9 metres. Logan City Council reported 197 damaged properties, including 35 residential properties assessed as severely damaged.
- Where should residents look during a flood, not on a news site?
- Use QLD Traffic for road closures, the Bureau of Meteorology for warnings and river heights, Logan City Council for local disaster information, and 000 if life is at risk. SES assistance is requested through the published Queensland SES channels. “If it’s flooded, forget it” remains the official road-safety message.
- What is Park Ridge News’ approach to naming minors in local news?
- We do not name children in community stories without a clear public-interest reason and an appropriate adult contact. School features talk about programs, public events and official notices rather than identifying students. Heritage URLs that once carried a personal or medical headline are rewritten so they no longer republish private details.
- How do I submit a local tip?
- Open /submit-a-tip/, include suburb, date and an official link. No rumours, no medical files, no images of children.
- How do I correct an article or contact editors?
- Use /contact/ with the URL and the public document that contains the better fact.