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Australians are still suffering from budget airline Bonza's unreliability issues, one year after its launch.

Advocates say Queensland's new police commissioner will have a tough road ahead in tackling domestic violence.

After rotting away for more than a decade, the tide may be turning for a once iconic Whitsundays holiday spot with whispers Lindeman Island will be back in action by 2025.

The proposed reforms would repeal existing criminal offences relating to sex work and create new offences for the protection of sex workers.

Securing a permanent doctor in the bush is a difficult task, and this doctor has just ended a rural town's six-year wait for a permanent hospital GP.

Candidates vying for a position in Queensland's local government next month will, for the first time, need to keep their personal campaign spending and donations under a cap.

The government says it will bring forward a ban on knife sales to minors, and increase the penalty for carrying a knife in public.

Susan Jones fears her stiflingly hot social housing that does not have air-conditioning will put her life at risk if heatwaves continue to affect the state.

Bright yellow with blemish-free skin, bananas at major supermarkets tend to look "perfect", but will a push to sell produce affected by recent tropical cyclones in North Queensland shatter this widespread consumer ideology?

Police shot a 39-year-old man dead in the rural township of Ilbilbie, south of Mackay, after he allegedly pulled out a firearm while trying to flee from officers.

Emergency services were called to Harbour Beach in Mackay following reports of a body being found in a car. Police say the incident is not suspicious.

The Mackay parents, accused of murdering their two-year-old daughter by denying her medical treatment, also allegedly failed to register her birth, a court has heard. 

Controversial former federal MP George Christensen has thrown his hat in the ring to nominate for a seat in Queensland's  March local government election.

Whitehaven Coal's Winchester South coal mine in central Queensland's Bowen Basin plans to extract up to 17 million tonnes of coal a year for about 30 years.

Marilyn Joy Wallman was 14 when she vanished from an isolated stretch of road while riding her bicycle in Mackay. More than 50 years later, her family is desperate for answers.

Robyn gets her car serviced every year, so she thought she should do the same for her herself. Doctors found a hole in her heart.

Police will allege that toddler Diana Jane Hanbury was denied medical intervention from her parents which caused her death in north Queensland in 2022.

A social worker tells an inquest into the death of a baby boy, 11 days after he was discharged from a north Queensland hospital, that she did not report her concerns about his parents to the Department of Child Safety.

If the tropical low develops into a cyclone, it would be Queensland's third in as many months. 

An environmental advocate says the changing climate means its more important than ever to protect the reef from human damage. It comes after a private charter skipper is convicted of numerous maritime offences.

With only 12 public cyclone shelters across Queensland, a leading design engineer recommends more people should consider building dedicated rooms in their homes.

The statistic has prompted Queensland Health Minister Shannon Fentiman to order an in-depth clinical review into the problem.

Master Builders Queensland warns there is a new wave of increasing construction costs coming and some believe opportunistic "price gouging" is partially to blame.

Queensland can expect more wet weather this week, combined with sticky heat, after a recent spate of record-breaking minimum overnight lows.

Some Australian producers turn their backs on the major supermarkets because of what they say are unfair prices at the farm gate.