Microplastics major problem for Great Barrier Reef
A three year study of plastic waste in the central Great Barrier Reef area has found there is a risk to marine organisms from plastic exposure.
A three year study of plastic waste in the central Great Barrier Reef area has found there is a risk to marine organisms from plastic exposure.
Michelle Lewis loved her maroon and white mountain bike and was rarely seen without it. In January 1989, she set out for home on that bike, and was never seen again.
A decline in the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 in Queensland may point to the state passing the peak of the current wave, the premier says.
The District Court trial of a man charged over an alleged chainsaw attack north of Brisbane has been abandoned after the jury was discharged.
Some 2000 homes are still uninhabitable after flooding in southern Queensland as the state moves ahead with a repair and buyback scheme.
Police are warning road users to always expect the unexpected, after a vehicle rollover at the scene of a road wildlife rescue in far north Queensland.
A Surfers Paradise man will face charges over an incident on the Gold Coast overnight in which attempts were allegedly made to run down people with a car.
Police have charged a woman with the murder of an eight-year-old boy at Rockhampton over the weekend.
A Queensland mayor has been sentenced to community service for drink-driving after she crashed a car into a tree while more than three times the legal limit.
An ecologist who tracks endangered spotted-tailed quolls for a living hopes the species might be staging a slow return in a fire-ravaged national park.
The Queensland Government has released details of the next stage of a new road between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
Police have launched an investigation after an eight-year-old boy was found dead in a central Queensland home.
More than half a million people sought help at Queensland hospital emergency departments in the June quarter, with some facilities breaking their attendance records.
The search for a man missing on Magnetic Island in north Queensland for 16 days has been scaled back.
Queensland's government is looking to expand access to abortion, with many in the state's regions having to travel to Brisbane for a surgical termination.
The over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Queensland's child protection system continues to grow, new data shows.
A unique type of diamond invisible to the naked eye has been discovered for the first time in Australia within rocks from northern Queensland.
Police have warned visitors to Cape York Peninsula to be extra careful about fire, as the northern bushfire season begins.
It was common for family to be hired at Queensland's biggest public hospital service before an alleged nepotism scandal, a court has heard.
The Cairns Regional Council will seek support from the Local Government Association of Queensland for its controversial proposal to impose a levy on visitors.
The Australian Red Cross says people affected by floods in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales face a long road to recovery.
The Queensland government will mothball the Wellcamp quarantine facility next month, despite having a lease until April.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has flagged her support for a new biodiversity credits scheme to help arrest Australia's shocking environmental decline.
Questions about dealings between the Bravus mining operation in central Queensland and state government-owned corporation Sunwater have gone unanswered.
Queenslanders with Bupa private health insurance are wondering if they’ll still be covered for Australia’s biggest private hospital provider, Ramsay Health Care, as a dispute between the two goes down to the wire.
Almost $3 million of taxpayer money for a koala research centre has been 'repurposed' to build a rollercoaster at a Queensland theme park.
Queensland's corruption watchdog pressured a key witness to embellish evidence against a former health boss in an alleged nepotism scandal, a court has heard.
A man has been charged over shooting incidents on the Gold Coast last month, in which shots were fired at a moving car and a police station.
Deloitte estimates the total cost of the southeast Queensland floods, which impacted half a million people and 18,000 homes and business, to be $7.7 billion.
Queensland's Wellcamp quarantine facility is to stop accepting guests, with the $200 million complex no longer required amid the changing COVID-19 response.
Police are searching for three men who set fire to stolen cars across Townsville early this morning.