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

Queensland graziers are enduring wet season heat to again rebuild after heavy floods in the state's north west, but this time it is costing more.

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

Groovin the Moo's cancellation is just the latest blow to an industry facing a perfect storm of struggles. What can be done to save festivals like it?

The Queensland government has extended a program which sends serial repeat offenders to remote locations in a bid to address the state's youth crime issues and take pressure off the juvenile detention system.

A Queensland-built rocket will strive to reach orbit from the northern town of Bowen in what company bosses say is the first locally made craft to lift-off from Australian soil.

Indonesia has finally issued import permits for Australian cattle with the first ship now on the water bound for Jakarta.

It takes effort to get bananas from the farm to the fruit bowl, with growers relying on a significant workforce to pick and pack. Now scientists are working on technology to make it easier and safer.

Photographs a North Queensland principal took of unknowing students showed "clear sexual intent", a court has heard.

Indigenous have battened down the hatches and tackled their way to victory over the Māori in the NRL's annual All Stars showdown. 

Genetically modified cavendish bananas that are nearly immune to a devastating fungal disease have been given approval for commercial production and human consumption in Australia.  

The rare Australian elasmosaur fossil gained global attention when it was discovered on an outback Queensland property in 2022.

A coroner probing the deaths of four teenagers killed in a high-speed stolen car crash has found Queensland police couldn't have done anything to prevent their deaths. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died.

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

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.

Five Blind Dates, the first Aussie Amazon Original movie, sees Shuang Lu as Lia change her approach to dating after meeting a fortune teller.

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?

Wildlife officers believe the unwanted visitor had been snacking on the family's geese and posed a risk to children and pets as it was brought within metres of their home by rising waters.

An ambulance spokesman says the students reportedly ingested an unknown substance from a bag, and paramedics arrived to find one of the teens vomiting.

Cowboys forward Luciano Leilua has pleaded guilty to low-range drink driving before a Townsville magistrate. 

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.

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.

The charges against the Ville Resort-Casino have been dropped at the beginning of what was expected to be a five-day hearing in Townsville.