Locals have described the Bruce Highway stretch where a woman died and another was critically injured as ‘scary’ with calls for greater separation between traffic on the stretch. LATEST
An Airlie Beach man has been sent back to jail after his bail was revoked, despite the 31-year-old begging the court for leniency, offering to call his parents for a loan to pay for lawyers.
A Whitsunday father who is facing 15 charges of drug offending including supplying MDMA has sought bail, with his solicitor saying he could be at risk of spending too much time in custody. DETAILS
The case for a former respected high ranking Queensland police officer has been hit with a lengthy delay. LATEST
A beer-stealing removalist who lost it in a McDonald’s kitchen before telling hospital nurses and police to ‘stay the f–k away’ has had to pay for his wild night out in the Whitsundays.
A Whitsundays man has fronted court after he was charged with assaulting a Cairns man at a licensed premises in Airlie Beach and left him fighting for life.
An 18-year-old Sunshine Coast woman who drove a Hamilton Island buggy overloaded with friends at four times the speed limit while almost four times the blood alcohol limit has been sentenced.
A domestic violence offender who yelled “this is what you want, isn’t it?” as he attacked his girlfriend and put her in a “sleeper hold” appeared emotional as he was sentenced in court.
A 74-year-old man has died in a ‘catastrophic’ Bruce Highway crash in the Whitsundays, marking the fifth fatality in the region since July. Warning: Disturbing content
Rolling raids across the state as part of a major multi-agency blitz has targeted the illegal sale of tobacco, vapes and other smoking products on the back of new laws in Queensland. See where retail crackdown hit hardest.
A Queensland man who shot his two rescue dogs in a fit of rage, and then buried them in the backyard before police arrived, says he was ‘overcome with remorse’. Read why he did it. Warning: Graphic content.
A magistrate has found there was ‘no cavalier approach to safety’ at a mine where a digger operator was crushed to death in a highwall collapse.
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