David Chen

After swapping life in the city for sheep and a vegetable garden, the couple is running a thriving gin distillery. Demographers believe more people in their age bracket could make the move to country areas as lower property prices offer more opportunities.

Senex Energy will build more than 120 new coal seam gas wells in southern Queensland after Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek green-lit the project.

Police say two teenage children, a girl and a boy, were among three people killed after a ute crashed into the rear of the sedan they were travelling in near Dalby on Queensland's Western Downs.

A subsidiary of mining giant Glencore has had its proposal to store carbon in the Great Artesian Basin – which is relied upon by 180,000 people for water – knocked back by the Queensland government.

With 36,945 suspected fire ant reports made since May 2023 and 13,786 of them confirmed as positive, testing is a mammoth task for the governments and departments involved.

Sharon Fowke says her husband was treated like a second-class citizen during his stay at a regional Queensland hospital. Advocates say the case is not surprising.

Inquiry chairman calls for authorities to involve the public and work with farmers and pest control companies to stop the spread of the imported pest.

Police initially thought a 21-year-old man who was found unconscious when his car hit a fence pole on a rural property died from the crash, but now allege he was shot.

There are calls for greater regulation of the data collected by Coles and Woolworths from the millions of transactions that happen in their stores every week.

After struggling to pay rent in Brisbane, Donna Burn and her husband decided to move 300 kilometres west and they're living the dream after buying a house for $150,000.

More than 3,000 hens have been rehomed after a distressing discovery on a property near Toowoomba. A complaint has been made and authorities are investigating.

Emergency alerts have been issued for parts of the state, where residents are witnessing the all-too-familiar sights of flooded businesses, roads and paddocks.

Several people are rescued in the Moreton Bay suburb of Bray Park as some streets are flooded and waist-deep water sweeps through homes. 

A Toowoomba man will face trial at a yet-to-be-set date in the Supreme Court over an alleged murder in 2022.

A 33-year-old man will spend the next three days in jail after refusing to give evidence during a committal hearing into an alleged murder in southern Queensland.

A woman in her 20s is recovering after being bitten in her bed on a rural property in Queensland by what is thought to have been an eastern brown, the world's second most dangerous snake. 

The collapse of a Queensland coal mining company could signal wider problems for the industry as costs increase and commodity prices drop, according to an analyst.

An ATSB interim report reveals traces of cocaine found in Sea World pilot's system after the crash, and that it has issued an industry-wide safety notice about seatbelts on passengers not being fitted correctly on a regular basis.

A global agriculture giant that was founded by Seinfeld actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus's great, great grandfather wants to up its stake in Australia's biggest cotton processor from 17 per cent to 100 per cent ownership.

A southern Queensland school has pleaded guilty over its involvement in the death of 67-year-old James Norton.

A 26-year-old woman, who was assaulted while undergoing surgery to her left arm, is seeking $500,000 in damages. 

Shelly struggled to get her six-year-old to eat more vegies, but a Queensland school program teaching children about growing fruit and vegetables is helping to turn that around.

Alyce Nelligan, from Cambooya south of Toowoomba, is one of thousands of victims of crime in Queensland this year. An ABC analysis has found crime rates are higher per capita in regional and rural areas than metropolitan cities.

Bushfires continue to burn across southern Queensland with 32 homes and more than a dozen other structures destroyed with multiple new fires ignited after storm activity overnight.

Police are preparing a report for the coroner after a body was found following bushfires in the Tara area, west of Toowoomba, on Tuesday.