Car smashes into palm tree, driver hospitalised in wild crash
A man has been injured and his car destroyed after it rolled down a hill and crashed into a palm tree in the tropics on Saturday. PHOTOS, DETAILS.
Police & Courts
Man suffers head wounds in mega truck crash near mine
A man has been injured in a crash with a triple road train which had been carrying ammonium nitrate near a Central Queensland mine. UPDATES.
Young woman involved in fatal crash accused of having drugs in system
A young woman charged over a crash in which a motorcycle rider was killed has appeared in court for the first time watched on by family and friends of the man who died.
‘Cheating’ partner grabbed woman’s throat, axed window
A father of three covered his partner’s mouth to silence her screams while saying ‘I should have smashed your … head in’ before using an axe to break through a glass window.
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Brazen thief takes stolen car on interstate joy ride, hot-wires boat
A man has been urged ‘leave town’ following a brazen crime spree that involved stealing a car and driving it interstate and hot-wiring a boat. Read where it all came undone.
‘You have lost control’: Man lashes out in violent nightclub attack
A Mackay tradie has to pay his victim compensation after slamming his head into a bar twice in a shocking assault. The attack was ‘out of character’ for the father of three heavily involved in junior sport.
‘You’re lucky I don’t break your face’: Father’s ‘disgraceful’ assault
A father has been blasted for a ‘grossly excessive’ response to a violent clash with his former partner that involved him dragging her by her hair and pinning her by her throat.
Accused child killer applying to have taxpayers fund legal bill
An accused killer who allegedly caused a Mackay teen overdose after providing strong pain medication to several children is applying to have taxpayers foot some or all of her court bill via legal aid.
Man fighting for life after serious head-on collision
A 31-year-old man suffered critical injuries in the head-on crash that closed a road south of Mackay for more than five hours. Now police are urging anyone with information to come forward.
Man suffers facial injuries in tavern toilet block assault
A man was allegedly bashed in the toilet block at a popular Mackay tavern, leaving him with facial injuries and police trying to figure out what was behind the incident.
Five witnesses to be called in Marty Bella assault case
A rugby league legend will be questioned in court as part of the case against the man accused of trying to run the former origin great down on his own property.
The brutal truth behind 17 deaths on our roads this year
They are easy questions to answer but for some heartbreaking reason, we are not doing anything about putting it into practice. And the result is the constant state of mourning our region is in.
‘Absolutely sickening’: Forensic lab failures in focus in new Shandee crime documentary
Shandee Blackburn’s mother has called on politicians to stop ‘burying their heads in the sand’ over her daughter’s case as the chilling murder will come under the spotlight in a new crime documentary.
‘Vital clue’: Toddler’s bloody finger as missing mum’s final Mexico texts emerge
The family of a missing Queensland mum say a speck of blood on her daughter’s finger from the night her parents vanished together with revealing texts in the weeks prior paint a dire picture.
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