Primary school teacher Peter Matthew Malone is sentenced to four years in jail for touching four girls under their skirts while their work was being marked in the classroom.
A mother discovers workers are allowed to smoke near the sandpit of her daughter's childcare centre and is calling for a loophole in Queensland's anti-smoking laws to be closed.
Data shows Queensland police officers fired their weapons twice as much in the first four months of 2019 compared with the same period in the past two years — police believe they know why.
Scientists are exploring taking crops out of the field and growing them in "speed breeding" warehouses to develop new varieties capable of feeding 10 billion people by 2050.
Two men accused of the gang rape of a woman in Brisbane more than two decades ago are granted bail after being extradited from interstate while a third suspect is remanded in custody.
The Queensland Supreme Court will decide whether to allow a widow to use her dead husband's sperm to give her young son a sibling, as they were planning to do so before he died.
Kelly says the way police handled the investigation into her alleged assault "has been the most devastating part of it" after she was told her rape kit was destroyed and then never existed at all.
A high school teacher who had sex with a 16-year-old student from a North Queensland school is found not guilty of procuring a young person for carnal knowledge.
A south-east Queensland council with more than 700 memorabilia items — the bulk of which is believed to have been bought with ratepayers' money — is asking the community what should be done with the haul.
A new video shows Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch telling a room full of people she has shed tears over the approval of Adani's Carmichael coal mine, while also saying current environmental legislation is flawed.
People undergoing genetic testing will have more certainty about whether the variants in their genes risk causing cancer or are completely harmless, after a new international study.
It's the system they have in London and Chicago, it's being trialled in New York, and soon it will allow people in Cairns, Mackay and Townsville to pay for trains and buses with their credit cards and mobile phones.
A proposed $2 billion Indigenous-led coal-fired power station in Collinsville in North Queensland — developed by Brisbane-based Indigenous company Shine Energy and headed by traditional Biri man Ashley Dodd — is set to revive one of the country's oldest coal towns.
An Indigenous boy with an intellectual impairment was stripped naked inside Brisbane's adult maximum-security police watch house after being deemed a suicide risk, documents reveal.
Queensland Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch's comments at an Indigenous festival reveal Labor is divided on the Adani mine's recent approval, the State Opposition says.
Chrys Barker has been confined to a wheelchair and is in need of 24-hour care since being critically injured in a car accident in 2014. He's now been awarded what is believed to be the biggest single personal injury settlement in Queensland.
A Victorian man is expected to be charged with the manslaughter of his 35-year-old partner Shae Francis, who was last seen when she visited her mother at the Hervey Bay Hospital in October.
NSW makes a massive seven changes for the must-win Origin II in Perth on Sunday, led by the return of James Maloney to the halves — while injury forces two changes for Queensland.
Fifteen-year-old Connor Meldrum, who was badly injured in a cliff accident, will undergo surgery to have fitted to his skull a custom-printed polyethylene material that mimics the properties of living bone.
Australia's working holiday visa will be extended to a third year from July 1, but experts and former backpackers are warning there could be an increased risk of exploitation and abuse.
The Eels make a mess of the Broncos in Parramatta after the Storm ran roughshod over the Knights and the Panthers won a close one against the Rabbitohs.
"Nipple sucker 3,000" and "jug juicer" are terms invented by a group of frustrated mothers, who are fighting Facebook's claim that the items are medical devices after the sale of them was banned under the site's commerce policies.
