Lucy Loram

Lars Faleata has been charged with the murders of Christine and Joe Stephan, who were found dead after a fire at their home in Ipswich — south-west of Brisbane — in January, 2022.

The court heard Michael Connors spent four months on the run after he entered Australia with a fake passport and escaped hotel detention in Brisbane earlier this year.

Jarrod Bleijie says the government has asked organisers of a Brisbane pill testing clinic not to go ahead with its planned re-opening next week.

Australia's peak motoring body is calling for more transparency around the cause of fatalities involving pedestrians.

Residents are encouraged to weigh in as the consultation period on proposed changes draws to a close.

In an unassuming hall in Hervey Bay, 20 people are belting out classics. The goal of this choir isn't to be pitch perfect — it's to help manage their dementia. 

A court has shut down six illicit tobacco stores in the Wide Bay in the first legal test of Queensland's tough new laws targeting the sale of illicit smokes and vapes. 

Wildlife rangers ask for witnesses to come forward after finding the body of a decapitated dingo.

The announcement comes as more than 120 employees of the company contracted to build the Olympic trains face an uncertain future.

Rangers on the World Heritage-listed island off Queensland's coast urge visitors to secure their food, bait and rubbish from dingoes.

Authorities spent a week trying to capture the animal after it was seen in the Maryborough area, about 200 kilometres away from its usual habitat.

Queensland Health is seeking a court order to shut six tobacco stores in the first legal test of the state's strict new laws targeting the sale of illicit smokes and vapes.

From sleeping bags in playgrounds, to tents pitched at caravan parks - the signs of Queensland's housing crisis are everywhere.

From sleeping bags in playgrounds, to tents pitched at caravan parks - the signs of Queensland's housing crisis are everywhere.

Advocates say a critical undersupply of housing has forced people onto the streets. But as more councils disperse homeless camps, rough sleepers are left with nowhere to go.

A community is trying to process the alleged murder of three-year-old girl Sophia by her mother, remembering a "beautiful little girl" who would bring joy to everyone she met.

Rangers say a dingo stabbed with a pocketknife by a bystander to halt its attack on a nine-year-old boy has been euthanased.

The Queensland Ambulance Service said the boy was bitten on his underarm just before noon and rushed off the island for medical treatment.

Manufacturing powerhouse Downer has had a bid to overhaul the state's diesel tilt trains rejected, leaving 122 jobs hanging in the balance.

Maryborough-based manufacturer Downer says a downturn in work means it is considering redundancies, despite a contract to build 65 trains ahead of the Brisbane Olympics.

More than a century after hospital ship TSS Maheno was wrecked on the shores of K'gari (Fraser Island), families of its crew have gathered for a special Anzac Day ceremony.  

Losing her dad left Alexis feeling isolated, as few of her friends could relate. But a special camp in Hervey Bay helped her connect with kids who got it.

Brett Williams had "2.1 million reasons" not to kill Craig Dunn on the day the sale of his property was to be finalised, when the tenant who made his life a living hell would finally be out of his life.

A Queensland jury has found a Hervey Bay landlord guilty of manslaughter over the death of his 62-year-old tenant Craig Dunn at an industrial building complex.

The BOM says rainfall is expected to continue across the next couple of days, including for parts of the state grappling with a flood emergency.