An extensive air and sea search ends after police locate the body of Trista Applebee, who went on a half-hour scenic flight for her birthday in conditions described as perfect.

Police divers find the body of missing toddler Ruben Scott in a dam on his family's Cape York property. He had been missing since Tuesday afternoon.

There was an inconvenient truth that Al Gore and Annastacia Palaszczuk both avoided in Brisbane today. At a function devoted to discussing Australia's climate future, neither mentioned Queensland's Adani coal project.

Controversy surrounds prostate cancer testing guidelines, with doctors moving away from rectal exams and instead relying on a blood test.

When the AFP entered the ABC with a warrant, media around the world were shocked. We answer some of the questions raised about press freedom and protection of sources.

Detectives use cameras hidden in trees to film members of a network allegedly burying drugs on properties on Brisbane's outskirts and with link to the Comanchero bikie gang.

A Melbourne woman who posed as a Home and Away star to stalk women online is sentenced after her victims give emotional statements in court, telling their tormentor they still suffer sleepless nights, panic attacks and depression.

A magistrate finds former Ipswich mayor Andrew Antoniolli guilty of using council money to buy items at charity auctions over a 12-year period, labelling his testimony "largely self-serving and significantly contrived".

Authorities retrieve the body of pilot Marcel van Hattem from the wreckage of his Yak 52 airplane, which was located off South Stradbroke Island on the Gold Coast on Thursday afternoon.

A private company has unveiled its plans to build a major off-stream dam in the Northern Territory — so who is NT Water Pty Ltd?

Police hold grave fears for two-year-old Ruben Scott who went missing on a Far North Queensland cattle station two days ago. Divers have searched a lagoon and river near the remote property.

Industry figures say unstable weather, a lack of infrastructure investment and poor international prices are hampering sugar sector confidence as mills open for crushing.

Last year, more than 800 people in Queensland took their own lives, a shocking statistic the State Government is hoping to address by devoting $62 million in next week's state Budget to suicide prevention.

Gemma Cosgrave and Steven Arthur, from the north Queensland beach town of Bingil Bay, are named as the couple who died in a fiery crash at Cardwell, while their baby was rescued from the wreckage.

Wreckage has been spotted in the ocean off the Gold Coast by emergency services searching for a Yak 52 aircraft carrying two people that went missing early on Wednesday afternoon.

Reality television contestant Sam Wallace was left with a bullet in his thigh after Anthony Yoon Sun Soong opened fire into his car on the Gold Coast, believing he was his ex-lover's new partner.

SES crews, police and mustering helicopters fail to locate a two-year-old boy missing from a property in Far North Queensland, with the search called off for the night.

Jimmy Considine and his wife Kay have a home dedicated to the Queensland State of Origin team — their collection of memorabilia gives the paraplegic man reason to get out of bed each day.

Renowned Australian artist Ben Quilty brings Margaret Olley back to life in a massive mural-style painting on the walls of Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art, where the two artists will soon share billing in a retrospective-style exhibition.

Queensland's Privacy Commissioner says the public deserves to know their images and data are being captured at a string of major public venues, after the technology is switched on without warning.

A baby is orphaned after a double fatality on the Bruce Highway near Cardwell claimed the life of the boy's parents. A quick-thinking truck driver pulled the baby from the burning wreckage on Tuesday afternoon.

Gold Coast's Mayor proposes exhuming bodies from overcrowded cemeteries to then rebury them stacked on top each other — the current policy of new burial plot purchases.

Australian cricketer Joe Burns is diagnosed with a fatigue disorder but the batsman should recover in time for the Ashes series, if selected.

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