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Photo: Stolen car overturnedThe driver of a stolen car that crashed in far north Queensland this morning, critically injuring two of its occupants, is on th...Wednesday 25 January 2017 12:50pm -
Photo: Yoga practiceAn octogenarian yogi volunteers her time to teach yoga practices and techniques to mental health patients at Cairns Hospital.Wednesday 25 January 2017 12:44pm -
Photo: Family violence survivors have published storiesQueensland's community legal centres now help seven times as many people with domestic violence issues as five years ago and are...Wednesday 25 January 2017 7:37am -
Photo: Watermelon production downAn unusually strong agricultural production in 2016 is unlikely to be repeated this year, but Queensland missed out on the bigge...Tuesday 24 January 2017 10:40am -
Photo: Jonas LutkeA far north Queensland man whose passion for adventure landed him in a wheelchair is training for one of the toughest open water...Monday 23 January 2017 4:23pm -
Photo: Investigation announced into 1972 death of Brisbane brothel madamShirley Brifman was born in far north Queensland in 1935 and became embroiled in the corrupt world of police and politics in two...Thursday 19 January 2017 4:18pm -
Photo: Luscious lychees ready to be eatenThe first shipment of Australian lychees into the United States is hailed a major success, despite the exporter losing money on ...Tuesday 17 January 2017 7:02pm -
Photo: Steve Barlow with a morbakka jellyfishA marine creature captured on Queensland's Sunshine Coast that a Facebook user claimed to be a box jellyfish confuses locals not...Tuesday 17 January 2017 3:32pm -
Photo: Angel fishStaff at a Queensland-based commercial aquarium prepare to send sharks, rays and fish from the Great Barrier Reef to a Japanese ...Tuesday 17 January 2017 12:23pm -
Photo: South Bank poolA four-day heatwave will begin on Wednesday, bringing the same kind of conditions that saw more than 200 Queenslanders treated f...Tuesday 17 January 2017 9:03am -
Photo: High hopes for rice industry talks in BruneiThere have been mixed results for Queensland rice plantings following heavy rainfall in the north.Monday 16 January 2017 2:22pm -
Photo: Ancient samples show Great Barrier Reef can recover, study showsThe Great Barrier Reef has teetered on the edge of extinction in the past and recovered, a new study into its history reveals, b...Sunday 15 January 2017 10:15am -
Photo: Constable Alice Turnbull pleaded guilty to drink drivingA Cairns police constable has been fined and convicted after being caught driving at more than three times the legal limit.Thursday 12 January 2017 12:54pm -
Photo: Flooding at InnisfailResidents and visitors to far north Queensland are being urged to stay out of floodwaters following six swift water rescues in t...Tuesday 10 January 2017 2:59pm -
Photo: Runners - generic imageWith New Year's resolutions fresh in their minds, people everywhere hit the gym and pound the pavements, but physiotherapists sa...Tuesday 10 January 2017 11:25am -
Photo: Police investigating dead infantA 43-year-old Cairns woman accused of the death of her newborn baby more than 20 years ago is granted bail.Monday 9 January 2017 8:14am -
Photo: Running for recovery Nepalese girls run every dayThe urge to run is an instinctive reaction in an earthquake, but Cairns-based Nepalese expatriate Som Tamang has taken that one ...Sunday 8 January 2017 11:08am -
Photo: A .22 calibre semi-automatic rifle fitted with a silencing deviceTwo men face a string of charges after police find drugs, jewellery, cash and a gun which posed "a great threat to the community...Friday 6 January 2017 2:36pm -
Photo: Queensland lycheesLight supplies of tropical fruit mean good prices for Australian farmers this summer.Friday 6 January 2017 11:33am -
Photo: Young girl with meningococcal rashQueensland Health confirms a sixth case of meningococcal disease detected in the space of a week, this time in Toowoomba.Friday 6 January 2017 8:23am -
Photo: Search for missing manThe body of a 60-year-old man who was washed off a bridge in far north Queensland while trying to warn motorists of rising water...
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Photo: Floodwaters at TolgaFamily and friends of a far north Queensland man who went missing in floodwaters after trying to warn motorists of the rising wa...
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Photo: Far northern stormHopes are fading for a man last seen being swept away under a rail bridge by floodwaters north of Atherton in far north Queensla...Wednesday 4 January 2017 8:02pm -
Photo: Body in botanic gardensA man could have been dead for several days inside the Cairns Botanic Gardens before an "associate" discovered his body behind a...Wednesday 4 January 2017 4:44pm -
Photo: A Queensland Ambulance logo sits on the side of a Queensland ambulance, November, 2007.Two people appear in court charged with assault after a paramedic is allegedly kicked in the back and spat on in far north Queen...Tuesday 3 January 2017 3:48pm
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