Ashleigh Stevenson

Class action to be launched against Queensland's government-owned electricity generators

Australia’s longest-serving judge Kerry O’Brien, who is due to retire later this month after a 46-year career in criminal law, presided over countless high-profile cases, but he says the most poignant of his career were dealing with child sexual abuse.

After a four-day trial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, onetime anti-IS fighter 28-year-old Ashley Dyball is found not guilty of the murder of 22-year-old Samuel Thompson.

An 18-year-old woman accused of distributing an explicit video involving Brisbane Broncos player Kotoni Staggs wasn't the one who released it and regrets that the private video has gone public, her lawyer says.

A Brisbane mother receives a suspended jail sentence for lying to her husband, mother and police about her five-year-old daughter having a terminal brain tumour and fraudulently raising more than $10,000 in donations.

A Brisbane doctor has been granted bail after being charged with 162 counts of supplying dangerous drugs, such as steroids and diazepam to bikie gang members without a prescription for them to on-sell.

The former head of the royal commission into the Lawyer X saga confirms she is concerned there could be “more Nicola Gobbos” after Victoria Police declined to reveal 11 other case files during the long-running probe.

A nurse who works in the Gold Coast University Hospital COVID-19 ward, is the first person in Queensland to receive the coronavirus vaccine with thousands more Queenslanders to be given the jab in coming weeks.

Several failed wet seasons leave Wivenhoe Dam levels low, prompting warnings there will be water restrictions in place across south-east Queensland in the near future.

Brisbane’s 2032 Olympics will be the first Games contractually obliged to operate as “climate positive”, which is part of a move to avoid the legacies of huge debts and abandoned stadiums faced by some previous host cities.