Townsville, Australia News

The two boys, aged just 8 and 10, were playing in a park in Wulguru when they were fired upon by a drunken Townsville soldier wielding an air rifle.

Airline Regional Express Holdings Ltd says the Queensland government has approved it to fly two new routes in the outback of the state.

TWO Queensland police officers who drove over a woman asleep in a north Queensland park are in shock, their union says.

Within an hour, the Aboriginal man was dead. His injuries were later likened to those usually associated with a high-speed car crash.

You don't believe in ghosts? You may change your mind after venturing out on one of Dave Dennis' new tours around Townsville and the surrounding countryside.

Scientists from across the country will gather in north Queensland today for a workshop to finalise the design of a new tropical ocean simulator.

North and central Queensland club managers have been put on notice by the Fair Work ombudsman after employees were found to have been underpaid almost $350,000 in the past two years.

A FAMILY and their dog have escaped a fire that destroyed their house in southeast Queensland.

A serving soldier has been accused of shooting two children in a park in north Queensland.

Sin City, aka Las Vegas, at night. Like thousands of Aussies every year, I'm making the well-worn pilgrimage from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, that mecca of excess, indulgence and bright lights plonked in the middle of Nevada's Mojave desert.

A Crime and Misconduct Commission investigation has found policing strategies in remote communities in Queensland are "poorly developed and piecemeal". A spotlight was put firmly on policing in Queensland's Indigenous communities after a controversial death in custody on Palm Island rocked the state in 2004.

A 15-year-old boy and a young girl are dead and a 16-year-old driver is critically injured after her car went into a power pole.

TWO people have died and another has life-threatening injuries after three crashes in Queensland this weekend.

Australia will pay tribute to the men and women who served in Iraq with a national parade in Canberra on Saturday.

The Crime and Misconduct Commission says a report about the police handling of a north Queensland death in custody is likely to be finished by the end of the year.

FAMILY and friends of Cameron Doomadgee will gather on Palm Island on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of his death in police custody.

The early onset of the mosquito-borne virus this season has authorities desperate to stop the insects breeding.

A QUEENSLAND teenager has been charged with the sexual assault of four women over a three-month period.

They discuss the latest developments in their laboratories in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing.

DENGUE fever has struck again in north and far north Queensland, with authorities confirming three cases in Cairns and one in Townsville.