Hannah Walsh

It's not your typical retirement plan but Gavin Smith is in it "boots and all" giving new life to a caravan park in a town he first fell in love with 50 years ago.

The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting above average temperatures but says records are not expected to fall.

Milynda Rogers first started making scrap metal sculptures and putting them by the roadside for school kids to enjoy. Now scores of them adorn the outback landscape.

From the loudest burp to reciting the alphabet backwards in the least time … it might be unorthodox but you just may have what it takes to be a world champion.

It may sound a little unorthodox, but this outback pub was traded on trust.

Samantha Beeston spent endless hours in outback Queensland scanning hundreds of dinosaur bones that had been dug up over more than 15 years. 

A 19-year-old mother who watched her first baby die believes her concerns were disregarded by Mackay hospital staff, an experience bearing a striking resemblance to a case revealed at the hospital's last damning investigation in 2022.

The 40-year-old’s body was recovered from Kinchant Dam this morning after a two-day search. Police say it appears the man lost his life while trying to rescue his nine-year-old girl.

A rescue helicopter joins police and other emergency services in the search for a man missing in a boating mishap at a popular north Queensland dam.

In a single day, teenager Lazarus Seden, with a nine-page criminal history, stole two cars across Mackay under the influence of methylamphetamine and left three people with life-long injuries.