Townsville, Australia News

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.

Queensland's peak corruption watchdog took too long to wrap up its investigation of a police officer who has since gone missing and is feared to have committed suicide, a review has found.

Sabi found after 14 months Fled during bloody Afghan battle Found by a US soldier Townsville Bulletin: More pics of Sabi SHE survived almost 14 months in the unforgiving Afghan desert after being declared missing in action during a bloody battle with the Taliban.

SNG has also expressed its intention to publish the 33rd America's Cup Notice of Race with immediate effect.

It is feared the closure of the recreational group Sunfish will make it more difficult for anglers to have their say on state policies.

LICENSEES representing 14 pubs and clubs across Queensland will fight to prevent glass being banned at their venues in the Supreme Court in Brisbane today.

The latest in a series of Australian-sponsored Pacific Patrol Boat refits has been completed and the refurbished vessel handed-back to the Federated States of Micronesia at a ceremony at the Rosshaven Marine Shipyard in Townsville QLD today.

In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection is, apparently, prostitution, according to an Australian study published Wednesday.