Road closures south of Cairns due to flooding were anticipated to cause transport issues for the Douglas Shire. Picture: Weather IQ Supermarket shelves are so far the hardest thing hit in the Douglas ...

A 10-week program helps adult migrants learn to swim and enjoy the water on the outskirts of Melbourne, after a spate of ...

North Queenslanders are bracing for “cyclonic levels” of rainfall that could cause more life-threatening flooding, after ...

Thousands of North Queenslanders are being told to take shelter now after a week of torrential rain. The warning was issued ...

Parts of the Far North remain under severe weather alert, as the brunt of the rainfall impacts coastal areas between Cardwell ...

Hinchinbrook Mayor Ramon Jayo has been left disgusted after an entire supply of empty sandbags left out for the public ahead ...

The Esperance Shire will ramp up efforts to stop drownings off its coast by installing fencing and extra warning signs in ...

Queensland is home to many tourist attractions and theme parks that are predominantly based in the southeast corner of the ...

An application by a hard-rock quarry near Mt Etna to increase extraction from 100,000 to one million tonnes annually has been ...

Flinders Shire mayor Kate Peddle says her council doesn’t have an “ideological belief in alternative energy”, but they are happy to diversify our economical gains” with wind farms.

Followed categories will be added to My News. Cook Shire Council will decide whether to keep the tooth saving mineral in its Cooktown tap water at an ordinary meeting next month with councillors ...

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