Man found not guilty of rape, jury undecided on attack
The jury has returned a verdict on two of three charges in the matter of a 33-year-old man accused of raping and assaulting his former partner.
The jury has returned a verdict on two of three charges in the matter of a 33-year-old man accused of raping and assaulting his former partner.
A prominent Queensland gem hunter and company director has been jailed after defrauding multiple businesses across Queensland and New South Wales, leaving behind about $86,000 in unpaid debts and false promises.
A highly paid, senior public servant who says he was forced to live in his car before housing his young family in a property ‘constantly’ targeted by thieves has won a court bid to force the state govt to relocate him – and his role.
A man in his 20s was taken to Kingaroy Hospital in a stable condition after his vehicle rolled over on the Burnett Highway on Monday evening.
Three children aged 12 to 15 have been charged with multiple offences following a burglary and dramatic police chase in the South Burnett that only ended when police stingers were employed to stop two allegedly stolen cars.
Drama erupted in a Queensland courtroom after a jury found two Brisbane men guilty of a brutal home invasion that involved a handgun, knuckle dusters and several beatings.
A manhunt is underway after a motorcyclist camped for the night behind a Queensland service station was held up at knifepoint in a shocking attack in the dead of night.
A Bundaberg region man is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to multiple charges over a 2023 burglary and robbery in the Wide Bay.
A Queensland doctor, convicted of raping a patient during a pap smear, has appealed for a second time.
A Queensland MP is renewing calls for permanent security at a country town’s hospital as the identity of an alleged knife-wielding man shot by police in the emergency department is revealed.
Crime rates in parts of regional Queensland have skyrocketed to more than four times those of metropolitan areas. CHECK YOUR AREA
Using rocks to smash into properties – including two frightening examples where people were home at the time – thieves are running rampant in another small Queensland town.
A Queensland correctional services officer has been charged after he allegedly leaked confidential prisoner photographs and officers’ reports.
After being placed in emergency housing with his family, a former labourer showed his gratitude by causing a confrontation in which he bit the nipple of the complex manager before slashing his throat.
DNA from a blue bandana has been the undoing of a man two years after he and an accomplice tried to break into the private Gympie region school in the dead of night.
Video has captured part of a police chase, sparked by the theft of a car at Brisbane, which led officers, PolAir and the dog squad on a dramatic chase across the Sunshine Coast and South Burnett regions.
A repeat drug offender with a ‘significant’ history has returned to court over another string of crimes, including driving with meth in his system.
Jodie Santowski was a teenager when a fully loaded logging truck speared onto the wrong side of the road and into the oncoming hatchback carrying Jodie and her best friends. What happened next will remain with her forever.
The nature of the debt owed to creditors by a Qld building company ordered into liquidation by the Federal Court has been revealed in new documents lodged with ASIC by administrators.
An Uber driver who lost a colleague to an alleged teen murderer and was almost taken out by a 15-year-old in a stolen car, has backed proposed LNP youth crime laws as her city records a 270% increase in car thefts.
When a man was reported missing in the Mary River amid a police chase, swarms of emergency crews answered the call. Now, the lead-up to the drama can be revealed.
A 28-year-old man will remain in jail for the next year after grooming one teenage girl over Instagram and raping another, all while claiming to be a teenager himself.
A man and woman have been rushed to hospital with life threatening injuries after two cars and a logging truck collided at the Laminex intersection on the Tin Can Bay Road.
Fresh insight into the holiday park stabbing death of a young Queensland man, allegedly at the hands of a 14-year-old girl, can be revealed.
Emergency crews were called to two separate incidents in the Wide Bay-Burnett region overnight with a man falling into a fire and a vehicle rolling in a crash. DETAILS
Two people aged in their 30s have been remanded in custody on a total of 30 charges that include drug trafficking and supply.
Police are searching for missing diving gear which may wash up at two tourist beaches after a Gold Coast man’s death while on a charter at a popular spot off the Queensland coast.
The owners of a Qld seafood business say the Great Sandy Strait’s new gill net fishing laws have killed their supply of local fish and forced them to shut down after four decades.
A homeless ex warehouse manager who was asleep in his car was convicted of drink driving when he faced Gympie Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
A teenager reported missing on the Fraser Coast has been found safe and well.
Two people aged in their 30s have been charged with a total of 30 crimes including drug trafficking and supply after police raided properties near Gympie. Watch the video:
A mother of two adult children pleaded guilty in Gympie Magistrates Court on Monday to producing and possessing dangerous drugs.
Police have charged a 19-year-old over an alleged stabbing at a park on a popular Queensland tourist strip. DETAILS.
An investigation is underway after water police discovered an unmanned canoe was floating 2.5 nautical miles off a popular pier on Saturday.
A Sunshine Coast roofer whose crime spree took in parts of Brisbane and the Gympie region faced a total of 41 charges, but had 28 of them dismissed because of a lack of evidence.
Technical issues with evidence against a South Burnett businessman accused of shooting and killing a 21-year-old father who drove on to his farm at night have been raised in court.
A serial menace convicted of multiple hooning, speeding and weapons offences across the Gympie region has walked out of court after spending 441 days in jail.
The brazen thieves were reportedly dressed as “workers’ and took two and a half hours to carry out their heist near Gympie.
A young Gympie woman is likely to face the Supreme Court after being charged with weapons and drugs offences, including six counts of supplying dangerous drugs.
A Gympie woman barely out of her teens and pleading guilty to a litany of crimes has been given a dressing down by the local magistrate who said the community was ‘scared and fed up’ with ‘this kind of offending’ by young people.
A retired detective’s podcast into the tragic death of 23-year-old Sarah Brown digs into the unanswered questions around the police investigation, and the disappearance that preceded the discovery of her body.
The Queensland son of a magistrate, who is a registered child sex offender for life after ‘very serious’ crimes, has faced court after being found with multiple mobile phones.
Police have described as ‘vicious’ an attack on two men near a Sunshine Coast train station which left one man fighting for life in hospital and another with a missing tooth. UPDATE
A man accused of stabbing another at a unit block metres from a local primary school has been admitted to hospital.
When emergency crews found the mangled wreckage of a car around a snapped tree on the Sunshine Coast, the driver was nowhere to be found. PHOTOS, VIDEO.
A distraught close friend of a Mackay mum shot dead in her driveway has spoken out as Red Cross counsellors door knock traumatised neighbours kept awake “hearing gunshots” in their head.
The identity of a man who allegedly stabbed another during an “altercation” at Gympie overnight can be revealed. PHOTOS, VIDEO.
A businessman’s Porsche GTS has been found damaged in Brisbane and a group of 16-year-olds arrested and charged after a chilling break-in at a residential home resulted in the theft of two cars.
A young brother and sister have been sent to live in foster homes following a brutal attack on them by their drunk father.
A Gympie teenager who flipped her car at high speed while she had drugs in her system has been convicted of four offences.
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