An innocent grandmother killed after a teen allegedly crashed a stolen car has been remembered as a kind and generous woman, as lawyers for the boy have revealed he had been in the care of the Department of Child Safety for four years.
Residential care house workers are being abused, assaulted and threatened by children at alarming rates, sparking an unprecedented rise in compensation claims across Queensland.
Crime rates in parts of regional Queensland have skyrocketed to more than four times those of metropolitan areas, amid calls for the government to give more attention to recruiting police to work in the bush.
Hoons behaving badly are infiltrating car enthusiast meet-ups and giving the groups a bad name, a concerned member says, as police condemn hooning in wake of a pedestrian being struck by a car at the weekend.
Nightclub-style identification scanners should be used to help curb alcohol-fuelled violence in a North Queensland town where people are skirting around the current “gentlemen’s agreement” liquor accord.
The heartbroken husband of Emma Lovell has spoken about the moments leading up to his wife’s death, and how he broke the news to his daughters that their mum wasn’t coming home.