Melissa Maddison

Automated external defibrillator saves tradie's life after workplace cardiac arrest

Stigmatising experiences involving shame and guilt are being studied to improve maternity care and empower women.

As a wrecking ball looms over 300 homes in the small town of Glenden, the local mayor is pleading with the state government and rival coal mining companies to save the community.

A centre which offers play and interaction for people of all abilities has been forced to close after being completely trashed. Its boss is unsure when it will reopen.

A Queensland man has been hit with a hefty fine and a long disqualification after being caught twice on the road and once at home.

Vicki Blackburn has endured the worst pain imaginable, but she is determined to make sure something positive comes from it.

Investigators believe shoppers at a North Queensland supermarket and chemist could be the key to uncovering what happened to the two-year-old girl.

It is hard enough for turtle hatchings to make it safely to the water, but try negotiating mounds of washed up flood debris stretching for kilometres along Queensland’s beaches.

A bulldozer operator is in hospital after his machine rolls several times at the Saraji coal mine, the same mine where 49-year-old operator Allan Houston died in 2018.

With large boulders, trees and mud strewn along much of the road to the Queensland town, residents are pooling their resources to keep cupboards stocked.

A watch and act emergency alert has been issued for Cremorne residents and another half a metre of rain has been forecast as Mackay and Mirani brace for early-morning flooding on Tuesday.

The deaths of three babies at Mackay Base Hospital will be investigated as devastated parents detail their struggles since the heartbreaking tragedies.

A mother of three “snapped” after seeing her ex-husband’s new partner who had threatened to put a spell on her, a court has heard.

For the second time in two days Queenslanders have been delighted by a striking sight in the sky.

A North Queensland man says he did not have the skills or knowledge to know that his wife allegedly misused $85,000 of his 96-year-old mother’s money.

Being born the week of Queensland’s biggest agricultural event was a sign of what life would hold for Sophie Laycock.

A Queensland Rugby League spokesperson says the Mackay Cutters have verbally indicated that they will travel to Papua New Guinea to play the PNG Hunters.

The four children who went missing north of Mackay yesterday are now safe, but the man wanted in connection with the incident remains at large.

After more than a fortnight fighting for her life, a teenager injured in a motorcycle crash that killed her father dies after her life support is switched off.

An Easter motorcycle ride has turned to tragedy for a North Queensland family with a 60-year-old killed and his teenage daughter fighting for life.