Laura Cocks

Officers are appealing for information as they try to understand how psychologist Frances Crawford, 49, died at her Queensland property.

Queenslanders wake up to frost covering their windscreens and lawns as a cold snap hits the state.

Craig Eddie's love affair with snails started on a Queensland beach when he was five years old. Since then he's turned his passion for the molluscs into a career in ecology. 

The Queensland woman is training her horses to travel 76-kilometres through dust and dirt to retrace the path of Australia's last horse-drawn mail run.

Shannara Cindy Dyball, 26, defrauded a Queensland container refund company of about $95,500, under the noses of her bosses for almost a year, the District Court in Toowoomba has heard.

Benjamin James Nunns, 34, claimed he was suffering from paranoid delusions due to an underlying mental illness when he shot Charles Compton in April 2020. A jury has decided otherwise.

Robert William Brown, 75, died after he was pushed over during a robbery in Toowoomba early last year. A 19-year-old will serve at least three-and-half years in jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Police say Jim Hill, 76, was showing signs of recovering from an assault in his Gatton home before his condition "rapidly deteriorated".

Police have declared a crime scene at bushland in the Toowoomba suburb of Middle Ridge after what they believe to be human bones were discovered by a member of the public. 

A teenager kept his eyes lowered, occasionally glancing up at the screen, as footage of his deadly attack on a 75-year-old man was played to a court.

From helplines to hiring someone to do their paperwork, many of our seniors could use a hand dealing with an increasingly complex aged care system. It "takes a village" to help them too, say advocates, and this is where to start.

The high-security Lockyer Valley Correctional Centre will have no bars on its windows and will focus on prisoner rehabilitation, according to government officials.

Police initially thought a 21-year-old man who was found unconscious when his car hit a fence pole on a rural property died from the crash, but now allege he was shot.

A mood for change has swept through regional Queensland, with voters punishing incumbent mayors in several major cities.  

The mother of a 28-year-old man who went missing in regional Queensland in June 2023 has learnt from media reports that her son has died. 

Dr Ellen Kent Hughes became Queensland's first female politician when she was elected to council in 1923. More than a century later, just over a third of local government candidates are women.

A crime scene has been declared at a home that adjoins a bakery north of Toowoomba after it was destroyed by an early morning fire.

Festivals are drawing crowds of visitors to regional Queensland each year, boosting the state's economy by $850 million, and there are plans to grow that even further.

Specially grown sunflower crops are springing up around Southern Queensland to help meet demand from crowds of visitors keen for a photo. 

Emergency alerts have been issued for parts of the state, where residents are witnessing the all-too-familiar sights of flooded businesses, roads and paddocks.

Families who lost their homes in the destructive Tara bushfire in late 2023 have moved into dongas and caravans while they begin the slow process of rebuilding.

A 33-year-old man will spend the next three days in jail after refusing to give evidence during a committal hearing into an alleged murder in southern Queensland.

Father Christmas is writing back to dozens of children in a Queensland country town and surrounds thanks to a local paramedic, parents and the post office.

The Queensland government received more than 4,000 submissions after unveiling a proposal for the 54km project around Toowoomba in July. Now it's been canned.

Farmers are calling for assistance to rebuild infrastructure and replant crops, with the impact on the supply of fruit and vegetables unclear at the moment.