Queensland beef supplier to repay staff $2.5 million
One of Australia's major beef suppliers will repay staff more than $2.5 million after discovering 11 years of underpayments.
One of Australia's major beef suppliers will repay staff more than $2.5 million after discovering 11 years of underpayments.
An invasive colony of yellow crazy ants has been discovered in Queensland's world heritage-listed far north, spanning an area of 77 hectares.
As north Queensland heads toward bushfire season, a new report has found people living in high-risk areas around Townsville are least likely to be prepared.
A man has been charged with murder five months after a driver was fatally shot in the head on Queensland's Darling Downs.
The Federal Government will expand efforts to control the Crown-of-thorns (COTS) Starfish which is a major cause of coral loss on the Great Barrier Reef,
Australian scientists have identified what they call an “exquisite” natural mechanism that helps plants limit their water loss with little effect on carbon dioxide intake.
Queensland businesses expect sales and revenue to grow, but they're less confident amid record operating and labour costs, a survey shows.
Detectives will question a man over the sudden death of a woman in Queensland's north following his arrest at Proserpine on Sunday night.
Homicide detectives are investigating after a mother-of-four was found dead in bushland near Townsville by teenagers riding quad bikes.
Health insurer, Bupa, and private hospital company, Ramsay Health Care, have settled a long-running dispute over medical costs.
Four children have been found safe and well in their own home a day after they were allegedly abducted in north Queensland, but the man police are seeking remains on the run.
The population of Mount Carbine is set to grow more than tenfold this weekend as crowds begin arriving for the annual Bull and Bronc Ride.
A search of thick bushland in the Sunshine Coast hinterland has failed to find a man missing from Nambour for a week.
The North Queensland Cowboys have paid tribute to their former premiership-winning coach, Paul Green, who died at his Brisbane home on Thursday morning.
A toddler and a woman in her 60s have been seriously injured after being attacked by two dogs at a home in Brisbane's south.
Over more than a decade, about 350 samples have been collected and housed in a Queensland brain tumour bank, creating a valuable resources for researchers.
Queensland police are probing a suspicious fire in a shipping container which killed a man in the state's north.
The Queensland Police Ethical Standards Command (ESC) will review how the force dealt with a couple involved in a fatal fire at Ayr in north Queensland this week.
Four children aged three, four, seven and eight have been taken from a central Queensland property, with police looking for a man in a four wheel drive.
Queensland police have issued an urgent alert for public help after a man took four children from a property near Mackay.
The rugby league world is in mourning following the shock loss of premiership-winning NRL coach Paul Green, with police confirming no suspicious circumstances in his death.
Rescue helicopter flights have been temporarily suspended at Innisfail Hospital in far north Queensland, after a nearby pedestrian was injured during a take-off.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is partnering with South Korean steel giant POSCO to expand gas projects in Queensland in a move welcomed by local industry.
An instructor and trainee pilot killed during an aerobatics training flight north of Brisbane may have been attempting to execute a spin recovery that was doomed to fail, a report has found.
Police have confirmed they’re treating the death of a woman following a house fire in north Queensland as suspicious.
Police have been accused of not following proper procedures in a murder investigation at a Queensland man's Brisbane committal hearing on Tuesday.
Former judge and corruption fighter Tony Fitzgerald has handed down the findings of an inquiry into Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission.
Between 1863 and 1904, 62,000 South Sea Islanders were transported to Australia, landing in Brisbane, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Mackay, Bowen, Townsville, Innisfail and Cairns. Most indentured labourers arrived from the New Hebrides, with a substantial proportion taken from the Solomons, as well as smaller islands.
Sugar cane growers in the north Queensland Burdekin region are hoping travellers will help ease a serious shortage of workers during the cane harvest.
It costs almost one million dollars a year to remove non-flushable items from the Cairns sewer system. Almost half are disposable wipes.
A woman severely burned in a north Queensland house fire has died in hospital. Her partner remains in a critical condition in hospital.