Desks

Five topics a Logan West paper actually needs

History, community, schools, local government and weather. Each hub is a long-form file, not a tag cloud.

Newsprint columns suggesting a topic index.

Metro news often flattens Logan into a single traffic story on the M1. People who live west of Browns Plains already know that is not how the week feels. The week feels like a school newsletter, a DA sign on Park Ridge Road, a BOM warning for the Logan River, and a hall booking under the Wineglass tower. This index is built around those repeating public questions rather than around whatever happened to trend.

Choose a desk, then follow the internal links into places and heritage URLs. If you only need an official action — a road closure, a warning, a council meeting — skip the narrative and use the source list on that hub.

Local history — How Park Ridge got its name, where the 1942 airstrip ran, and why 1887 still sits at the top of Logan River flood tables.Community — The practical fabric of Logan West: halls, volunteering, markets, and how to offer a story without turning private lives into copy.Schools — A sourced walk through Park Ridge and Greenbank school history, plus how we cover student work without naming minors.Local government — How to read Logan City Council agendas, development applications and disaster pages — and what this newsroom will not guess.Weather & emergencies — A local desk for floods, storms and heat that points first to BOM, QLD Traffic, Logan City Council and Get Ready Queensland.