Queensland

The friend of 13-year-old Brisbane schoolboy Tyrone Unsworth, who took his own life last month, says a day before his death he broke down and told her "the kids at school keep telling me to go kill myself".

With approval granted for a permanent rail line and a temporary construction camp, Adani's much-touted and often doubted Carmichael coal mine project in central Queensland takes a big step closer to reality.

Across Australia Landcare groups are scratching their heads over a $100 million windfall announced by the Federal Government.

Representatives of Queensland's agriculture and tourism sectors say Australia's Great Barrier Reef progress report to UNESCO could make or break their industries.

Human remains found on a property in Queensland's Granite Belt last week are identified as the those of Gold Coast man Jamie Hardgraves, who had been missing for about six months.

An American artist builds a two-storey creative play space made up of 56,000 metres of packing tape inside a south-east Queensland gallery in the hopes of attracting thousands of visitors over the summer holidays.

An art installation built using 56 kilometres of packing tape has been constructed at Ipswich Art Gallery — the largest of its kind in the world.

HMAS Tobruk is to be scuttled off the coast between Bundaberg and Hervey Bay as a dive site and tourist attraction.

The latest chapter in the Billy Gordon saga can be read in two parts: personal and parliamentary.

Farmers in Queensland's Mary Valley report total crop losses after the region was battered by a series of violent storms.

An Indigenous activist wins part of his racial discrimination suit against the Queensland Government and Police Commissioner over their handling of the 2004 riots on Palm Island, with a court finding police acted with "impunity".

The popular Kensington Pride variety will be in short supply, but consumers will still be able to get their summer mango fix.

A Queensland avocado farm becomes the first acquisition by a new joint venture between the Costa Group and Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management.

Social enterprise the Spice Exchange helps refugee and migrant women gain employment and foster community spirit through cooking.

Townsville will be the regional headquarters of Adani's newly approved $22-billion Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin.

A woman linked to a fatal shooting on the Gold Coast has presented to police and been charged with a motor vehicle offence.

Scientists from across the country carry out the biggest biological stocktake ever completed on Fraser Island.

A community linen drive provides more than 18 cubic metres of linen to villagers in some of PNG's most remote areas.

Fashion companies experimenting with wool has helped drive prices to their highest levels in five years.

Text messages that are supposed to warn Brisbane residents of incoming destructive storms were sent out too late on Saturday due to a technical fault.

For many of us, the passing of time is marked by photographs, families, and world events, but for 99-year-old Bill Bruce, time is measured in prose.

US golfer Harold Varner III powers home with a wet sail to win the Australian PGA Championship, while drawcard Adam Scott finished third.

Two homes in south-east Queensland were destroyed by fire during yesterday's super cell storms, which also overturned caravans and saw a teenager struck by lightning.

Every Wednesday and Friday night at 7:00pm, an unusual grouping of Christians, Muslims, doctors and award-winning laundromat operators turn a car park at Woodridge, south of Brisbane into a one-stop shop for those experiencing difficult lives.

An unusual grouping of Christians, Muslims, doctors and award-winning laundromat operators are turning a car park by a busy roadside at Logan into a one-stop shop for those experiencing difficult lives.