Cameron Bates

A woman has been flown to hospital with suspected spinal injuries after the vehicle she was driving collided with a cow on a rural road in North West Queensland.

Paramedics are assessing a primary-aged school girl for injuries after a two-vehicle accident on a major Townsville road on Tuesday morning, emergency service say.

A Townsville tenant undergoing financial hardship has lost a three-and-a-half-year battle to reclaim a $93.50 electrical call-out fee from her property manager.

A man tragically killed in a traffic accident has been identified as the son of a North Queensland cane-farming family.

A leaked police email says a critical staff shortage within Townsville’s Child Protection and Investigation Unit poses and “unacceptable risk” to the community.

A toddler has suffered facial injuries in a domestic-violence related incident in North Queensland, police have confirmed.

When lawyer Paige Horvat is not tackling cases she is tackling opponents as a pioneer of senior rugby league for women in North Queensland.

Police are still searching for the driver of a stolen vehicle who fled the scene of a fiery traffic accident in Townsville on Sunday.

A mother who held her son’s hand as he died from burns sustained in a mystery double-fatal house fire in Townsville 10 months ago, says she has been battling cruel bureaucracy on multiple fronts ever since.

An elderly full-time carer and a disabled 70-year-old woman have been living rough out of a car since becoming homeless five months ago.

Fire crews have responded to reports of a potentially severed gas line in the Townsville CBD, with hundreds of people evacuated from inner-city businesses.

A man touted as an “Indigenous leader from Townsville” on the state government’s legal expert advisory panel tasked with the job of advising the LNP an adult crime, adult time legislation has links to sovereign citizen ideologies.

Townsville MP Janelle Poole, a decorated former police officer, has a serious message for motorists ahead of the Easter holidays and Anzac Day and Labour Day long weekends.

Two highly respected medical practises confronted by extreme adversity during the Hinchinbrook flood disaster have tipped their scrub caps to the resilience of the local community.

The developers behind a “transformative” proposed new factory in the Ingham CBD have broken their silence about the hi-tech project, including plans to create new jobs and use Hinchinbrook companies and local labour during the construction phase.

North Queensland communities still grappling with flood recovery received a much-needed boost from their neighbours, as thousands of essential household items as well as a mammoth cash donation were gifted to disaster-struck residents.

An elderly woman who tragically perished in the Hinchinbrook flood disaster has been identified as a pioneering Australian truck driver.

A high-profile North Queensland priest has fronted court on a drink-drive charge.

Undead star in Townsville zombie colouring book

A highly respected Townsville doctor has hailed new payroll tax exemptions for GPs as a “shot in the arm” for medical practises and patients.