The state’s police have the right to scan anyone in public with a metal detector, with Jack’s Law named after 17-year-old Jack Beasley who was fatally stabbed in 2019. The powers were made permanent ...

The shocking data from Foodbank’s Hunger Report found 22 per cent of households (480,000) in the state were battling severe food insecurity. It was an alarming jump from the 19 per cent last year, ...

A Darling Downs council has been named among the state’s councils with the highest number of complaints in 2024, but is tight-lipped over the basis of the complaints. The Office of the Independent ...

A third report into Queensland’s embattled forensic lab reveals it is on the brink of collapse, with huge delays and thousands of cases needing retesting, leaving violent offenders still at large. The ...

Indica Bradford had dreamt of having her own custom plates since the day she got her licence. “Everyone has personalised plates and I could get my full name because it’s so unique,” she told A Current ...

The number of babies having to be hospitalised in Queensland with respiratory illness is down nearly 70 per cent since a new vaccine was introduced last year. One less infant, under the age of six ...

A dispute between a pair of pro athletes who both use the number 8 has been resolved, thanks to a change in font. Earnhardt and his team have raced before as No. 8; and in 2019, when the team got the ...

A new James Cook University-led study has found an alarming number of cancer hotspots, prompting researchers to push for better education of warning signs. Using the Queensland Cancer Register data ...

Queensland’s residential care system has surged beyond 2000 children for the first time as a scathing review finds a plan meant to halve numbers has made nearly no progress in a year. The Queensland ...