A young worker was killed, and six others electrocuted on their Queensland property, but a judge has revealed why he could not find father and son farmers guilty of safety breaches.
A Central Queensland mechanic has been sentenced for 28 offences including eight fraud crimes after he ripped off his former employer.
A Queensland police officer has been arrested by Taskforce Argos after allegedly accessing disturbing AI images and text-based child abuse material. FULL DETAILS
A 63 year old grandfather who died in a tragic quad bike accident in Queensland is being remembered as a “true jokester” and a character with a heart of gold. READ THE TRIBUTES
The best friend of a woman at the centre of a homicide investigation that has rocked a rural community says the 69-year-old was ‘adventurous’ and ‘had a big heart’.
Police found a man performing CPR on a 69-year-old woman in the back seat of a ‘stolen’ car in a bizarre chain of events leading to a suspicious death investigation.
A Townsville-based advertising company fined $250,000 after one of its workers suffered serious injury from an electric shock south of Mackay has made a second attempt to overturn the decision.
There has been a shock twist in the case against a young man and woman charged with kidnapping a teen boy at knifepoint.
A man’s frightening armed robbery plan fell through, while another man is facing drug charges after being kicked out of a nightclub in the heart of the Whitsundays.
It may not be of “Houston, we’ve got a problem” proportions, but surely Central Queensland’s mining sector is looking at itself in the mirror and asking: “Do we have a drug problem?” Read our report here.
Two drivers had narrow escapes from their submerged cars in separate incidents in the rain-soaked Mackay region.
A magistrate has reconsidered his demand for Queensland’s Police Commissioner to appear in a regional court for an alleged meth trafficker’s case.
A young man accused over an alleged kidnapping of a Queensland teenager at knifepoint has had a number of charges dropped.
A court has rejected an argument from the crime and corruption watchdog that it was manifestly inadequate to allow a former senior ranking police officer to merely resign after she was caught lying during an investigation.
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