Louisa Rebgetz

Tourism operators and environmentalists say the Federal Government's new draft plan for marine parks almost halves the protections from commercial fishing set five years ago.

A Brisbane business owner owed $1 million is furious at the Queensland Building and Construction Commission for what he calls a lack of action and regulation.

Broadcaster Alan Jones is accused of launching an “extraordinary, serious attack” on the Wagner family on the opening day of a defamation case that reduced John Wagner to tears while giving evidence.

SunWater is about to shed the equivalent of 32,000 Olympic pools of water from Bundaberg's Paradise Dam, which is less than 20 years old — so what went wrong?

Standing in a pile of rubble, Faith Gordon is still coming to terms with seeing her house destroyed by fire. She vows to rebuild in the bush, with her next house hopefully built to survive a bushfire if it happens again.

Pfizer offers $100 million to buy a ResApp, a company that has invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 by listening to someone cough.

A council in Australia opens the first biosolids gasification plant in the Southern Hemisphere, which turns human waste into renewable energy, at Logan, south of Brisbane.

Queensland has recorded more than 6,000 cases in school-aged children in the past week, with the union representing independent schools saying the sector faces “quite substantial challenges”.

Heavy rain is expected to ease today but days of flooding leave supermarkets running low on supplies in parts of Queensland’s north, with producers finding new routes to get fruit and vegetables into the region.

Annastacia Palaszczuk leaves politics having blazed a path for women in Australia and will be celebrated as a Labor legend who brought the party back from humiliation and defeat.