Social media influencers with 12,000 followers were among seven people charged with promoting hooning activity as part of new laws in Queensland, including a beach party that led to a teenager being flown to hospital with critical injuries. One said ‘bring beers, be a menace’.
A man accused of robbing two Queensland sex workers at gun and knifepoint has tried to push for bail release with his lawyer arguing the evidence was ‘not particularly strong’. See what the local magistrate had to say.
A Queensland teen died after a woman gave him and other children at her home opioid pain medication saying it would ‘make them high’. But she will be out of prison next year with the teen’s family blasting her sentence as “no kind of justice”.
Police are investigating after a man was assaulted at a mining camp inland from Mackay. DETAILS
A mum was celebrating her 28th birthday and her hometown return when she saw a man beating up two others and intervened. The next thing she knew, she was waking up in hospital.
A promising young doctor, who died in a Bruce Highway crash on her way to work at a rural hospital, is being remembered as a student who always put others first.
Two hospital staffers have taken their case to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission after they were refused a Covid-19 vaccination exemption.
After a motorbike cut him off near a regional shopping centre, an industrial cleaner took it upon himself to exact justice, pulling out a pocket knife and slicing open the bike’s seat.
A young woman fell to the ground, smashing her head on the pavement after she was punched her in the face at an Airlie Beach restaurant. Now police are appealing for witnesses to help identify her attacker.
Holding his phone with blood on his hands just minutes after he allegedly came close to decapitating a man he met hours earlier, the alleged murderer of a rising rugby league star called his mum before phoning triple-0.
A mother of three felt she had to help her dad with his alleged meth peddling business because he had put a roof over her head. Find out how it came undone.
A woman in her 20s has died in a head-on collision between a truck and Suzuki Swift on the Bruce Highway south of Mackay.
A conscientious lifeguard who reported ‘several tonnes of chlorine’ leaking at a public pool triggered an exclusion zone and evacuation – but it wasn’t all it seemed.
A pregnant mum hatched a plot for a home invasion against a sex worker she had once contacted about engaging her services. But things turned violent. Find out what unfolded.
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