The rise and fall of Queensland’s tourism industry has benefited some regions more than others, and travellers have turned their attention to the countryside. See why tourists are leaving the city lights behind here.
Swapping fine dining for ‘fire dining’ in an effort to connect with people has resulted in unexpected opportunities on a global scale for a Queensland-based chef.
The devastated family of a 17-year-old driver in a horror Bruce Highway crash spent days by her bedside before her tragic death. TRIBUTE
Queensland’s worst road is again in the firing line, with calls for urgent safety upgrades and government action after a schoolgirl became the latest victim.
A collapsed footwear company, which began more than twenty years ago on the Sunshine Coast, is expected to receive creditor debt claims in excess of a million dollars, it has been revealed.
Confronting autopsy results have been revealed at a trial of a Queensland man charged with the murder of his mother-in-law. It comes after a jury was shown a disturbing social media video taken on the day of the killing. *DISTRESSING*
A man has been hospitalised after a dispute allegedly turned into a physical assault at a Warwick address. Here’s what we know so far.
The company behind a $350m surf park and resort on the Sunshine Coast has been forced into liquidation weeks after the director’s second company was revealed to owe creditors more than $19m.
A court has heard the tragedies of a suburban drug dealer who tried to sell meth on Facebook messenger, which included the murder of his sister Tia Landers, whose body was found in a Sunshine Coast forest in 2014.
Disturbing new details on the moments before the killing of “deliberately targeted” youth crime victim Robert Brown at a Queensland shopping centre were revealed as the teen responsible faced the first stage of sentencing.
Stalkers invoking the devil, pedophile smear campaigns, disputes that went all the way to the High Court of Australia. We look at 17 neighbourhood stoushes that have made headlines.
A 17-year-old girl leaving school was grabbed by a meth user who demanded she give him her “f—king keys”. The same man had only three years earlier been given immediate parole for an attempted kidnapping.
A Queensland couple have opened up why they chose to forgive a teenage boy they caught trying to steal their car after a face-to-face meeting that changed their perspectives.
From former night-life hotspots, to prosperous towns swallowed by a lake, these are the icons of southwest Queensland which disappeared, their history and what happens next.
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