Rockhampton, Australia News

Worse to come ... Queensland - already devastated by gales and flooding - is braced for the most ferocious storm yet.

Australia and the Pacific Islands are facing epidemics of malaria and dengue fever because of global warming, a report has claimed.

PARENTS are flooding childcare centres with applications as the Federal Government pledges $22 million to keep ABC Learning alive until the new year.

Canada's Waratah Coal Inc listed on the Australian stock exchange on Monday as it continues its legal battle to go ahead with a $5.3 billion coal development in central Queensland.

AMAQ president Dr Chris Davis says hospital performance is not improving enough.

RESIDENTS of Yeppoon and surrounds have been warned to boil their drinking water because the pipeline to its reservoir may have been contaminated.

RURAL property worth more than $450 million is on the market across northern Australia.

Police say a woman will face court in Queensland tomorrow after she abused a pilot when she refused to turn off electrical equipment.

The resources sector says the Federal Government needs to invest in water, rail and port projects now, to ensure it remains competitive on the global market.

A DISABLED pensioner found dead in his central Queensland apartment had been murdered, police say.

AN original artwork by psychopathic serial killer Leonard John Fraser has been withdrawn after being posted for sale on internet auction site eBay.

THE Singapore military's latest battle tank, the Leopard 2A4, provides a smoother ride than a car over Australia's rugged outback.

THE awesome firepower of the Singapore military's latest armour, the Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks, was demonstrated in their first major overseas exercise on Saturday.

Waiting for my dodgy microwave meal to heat last night, I wandered into the lounge room to watch whatever my housemate on had on TV, while my dinner cooked.

QUEENSLAND prison guards walked off the job because colleagues were forced to keep urine-soaked uniforms on until police arrived to investigate an inmate's death, Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence says.

A runaway schoolgirl in northern Australia who made world headlines for hiding in a cupboard for nearly five years while her parents believed she had been murdered, has married her 'captor'. Natasha Ryan, then ...

No rationale ... experts says motorists are being ripped off to the tune of 20 cents a litre by big oil companies.

Many of us will remember with affection the conventional vessels operated by British companies involved in the New Zealand trade.

A New Zealander accused of murdering his father and his stepmother in Queensland had failed to live up to his father's expectations, his mother told a court.

The Shoalwater Bay Protection Society is hoping the Australian Defence Force will tell it more about next year's joint military exercises with the United States.