Rockhampton, Australia News

THE grandmother of a Top End girl taken by a crocodile is learning how to wrangle the reptiles in the hope of teaching other people about the dangers of the salties.

Robert Martinez, 26, and Chantal Barnett, 27, were last seen more than two months ago in the Rockhampton and Yeppoon areas.

The Court of Appeal has ruled the owners of a central Queensland motel did not discriminate against a sex worker who was banned from the premises.

Owner Craig Melville decided to put Dusty to task for the expo's 10th anniversary, along with his usual vintage Chevy tours of the cemetery.

EMILY BOURKE: Queensland authorities have launched four separate inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death of an unborn baby after the mother was turned away from a regional hospital.

Queensland's coastal lifeline will receive a facelift over the next decade with the Federal Government allocating $4.1 billion for upgrades to the Bruce Highway.

Scientists from Brisbane and central Queensland will meet in Rockhampton today to consider the future of the koala since last year's declaration as a threatened species.

The newly merged Glencore-Xstrata group has been developing plans for a coal terminal on Balaclava Island at the mouth of the Fitzroy River, near Rockhampton.

Queensland Rail says further investigations are needed on a proposed new rail service in the state's central region.

A central Queensland conservation group says an environmental impact statement for a proposed coal mine in the Galilee Basin does not address concerns about the effects on the Bimblebox Nature Reserve.

The Queensland Resources Council says Xstrata's merger with Glencore does not threaten jobs in the state's coal mines.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard addressed thousands of union members who took part in a Labour Day rally in Brisbane's CBD this morning.

AN Irish tourist who "belly-flopped" into a Fraser Island waterhole and was rendered a partial quadriplegic will receive substantial damages from the State Government because it failed to adequately warn of the dangers.

SOBER sailors have finally had enough of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's repeated use of the insulting phrase "spending like drunken sailors". Royal Australian Navy staff from Admirals in the corridors of power in Canberra to seamen on mess decks around the nation are sick and tired of Mr Abbott repeatedly comparing Labor's fiscal policy to a ... (more)

It follows a trial over the past year with 67 adult volunteers across Playford Council, in Adelaide, who are considered at risk of financial crisis.

Australia's environment minister said he never saw advice that a proposed coal port posed "extreme" risks - including threats to endangered turtles and a species of dolphin - at the Great Barrier Reef.

Drive inland from Brisbane, Rockhampton or Townsville and you will cross the Great Dividing Range and discover a vast sun-baked land.

Aerobic activity can beat the blues! A study published online in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport April 22, demonstrates that supervised aerobic exercise performed three times per week at a moderate intensity for a nine week minimum can be helpful in treating depression .

Prime Minister Julia Gillard will not meet with Queensland Premier Campbell Newman during a two-day trip to the state.

Northern Grampians Shire Council is calling on both the state and federal governments to make important changes to prevent communities like Stawell from falling further behind.