The child safety officer for orphaned teen, Bradley Smith, had only two meetings with the 14-year-old in the 10 months leading up to his death in a stolen car crash, an inquest has heard.
As Premier David Crisafulli admits to an exodus of teachers, he has unveiled a special school for youths with criminal records.
The man who became a global icon after retreating to a remote Far North Queensland island after losing his fortune has died peacefully in Brisbane.
Far North has recorded lower than average temperatures across the past week, as tourists flock to the region for school holidays.
Queensland has some truly bizarre rules – and even more bizarre battles have been fought over them.
A man has died and a woman has been left fighting for life after their Toyota LandCruiser lost control and rolled.
A proposed rate hike for retirement villages will disproportionately affect older, single women, the Retirement Living Council claims.
A Gold Coast lighting technician has lodged a $700,000 personal injury claim against a Cairns venue alleging he was kicked in the knee while being removed from a CBD nightclub.
An agribusiness trailblazer whose vision and hard work helped establish a thriving Tablelands banana industry in defiance of those who said it couldn’t be done has lost his long-running battle with lung disease.
Aviation enthusiasts are bracing for the roar of hi-tech fighter jets over Cairns during today’s first-ever Far North F-35A training sortie. Where to see the jets take off and land.
It is one of the most dangerous things you can do yet 43 Queenslanders are being caught each day.
A 31-year-old man is accused of stalking twin sisters in over a 13-month period in what one victim described as something out of a “horror movie”, a court has heard.
Exchanging text messages with a developer during an ordinary meeting will be one of several acts outlawed under a new policy set to be approved by Cairns councillors this week.
The leading charity for children’s heart disease is calling for a fly-in fly-out doctor to help Far North Queensland’s only cardiologist, as more than 250 children wait to be treated.
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