Michael Madigan

THE Leap is a pub with a past and it's determined to own it, honouring a dark period in Queensland history when the pioneers who built the state clashed with those who owned it.

YOU can gaze at Brisbane's soaring skyline from the veranda of the Regatta Hotel or watch the surf rolling in at the Kings Beach Tavern or even contemplate a sugar harvest from The Garradunga just south of Cairns.

ATHENS has the Parthenon and Charleville has Corones - and anyone tempted to snigger at the comparison has no idea what life was like in Queensland's wild west when wool was a "pound for a pound”.

How do we thank him?

A western Queensland road project expected to cost $176,000 has blown out to $5.6 million because of unresolved indigenous land use agreements regarding access to gravel quarries.

It’s a community suffering heart disease, obesity, diabetes, a desperate housing shortage, crime and an historic lack of public transport services so chronic there was not so much as a bus service servicing the area until 1992.

Longreach is calling on state and federal governments to help provide long-term water security to the region after spring rains gave the iconic western town an 11th-hour reprieve from a genuine water crisis.

The Qld towns under assault from ‘ghost storms’

Archbishop Mark Coleridge, effectively the boss of 146 schools, has slammed Qld’s Catholic Education sector saying students are underperforming in key areas. WELCOME TO HIGH STEAKS

Losing your youth is one thing, losing your mind another.