Mount Isa - 4825

Almost 100 kilograms of fireworks are seized by authorities at the Northern Territory-Queensland border, after Territory Day celebrations in the NT that allow them to be used.

Now a ghost town, the community of Mary Kathleen disappeared after the nearby uranium mine closed in 1982. But in its heyday, it was an oasis in outback Queensland.

Ben Olschewsky was heading to the bush for a four-week building maintenance contract. Fourteen years later, he can't imagine living anywhere else.

Alpurrurulam, on the Northern Territory-Queensland border is a long way from anything but not even distance can keep the newly formed girl's footy team from playing.

These players don't have fancy uniforms or special equipment and often train barefoot, but they share one thing in common: an obsession with AFL.

Cattle producers encourage others to open their gates to urban communities to see how life works on remote properties.

Working on a cattle station in one of the most remote parts of Australia, these backpackers say outback life is an opportunity that more young Australians should be taking up.

As police investigate why Ryan Cole allegedly shot his neighbour on a suburban street in Mackay, new details have emerged about Natalie Frahm's frightening final moments and her accused killer's past filled with loss.

It is supposed to be peak tourism season, but locals in small outback tourist towns have never seen it so quiet and are worried businesses won't survive.

A quiet cul-de-sac in Mackay was the scene of a shooting this week that claimed the life of Natalie Frahm — and police still don't know why.

Darren waits "hours and hours and hours" for taxis in Queensland, and hopes self-driving cars might be the answer. But an unpredictable marsupial is standing in the way.

Scurrying down highways and chewing through machinery, rats are already running rampant in outback Queensland — and locals say numbers have already soared past last year's infestation.     

The caravan-buying boom has worn off for outback families, so what options are there? Some are turning to travellers looking for a rural adventure.

There are probably a few things that come to mind when reminiscing about long road trips across Australia between the 1950s and '70s. Things like overheating cars, AM radio and the unmistakable icon of the Golden Fleece. 

Fossilised remains thought to be 100 million years old have been identified as a new species of pterosaur, a powerful flying predator with a wingspan of up to 12 metres.

Families say they are having to visit up to 10 pharmacies to find a key medication used to treat chest infections, whooping cough, and other respiratory issues in children.

More than 40,000 Queenslanders want Castle Law to use lethal force against home intruders, but the law society says existing laws allowing reasonable force have served the community well.

With outback towns stuck in a cycle of workforce shortages and a dire need for childcare, parents are taking care of each other's children so they can keep their jobs.

When intrepid medical couple Ulrich and Sabine Orda arrived in Mount Isa with four young kids in the mid-2000s, they did not expect their short-term adventure would turn into a love affair with the Queensland outback spanning almost two decades.

The state's map is littered with dozens of racist terms steeped in a traumatic history. While authorities have made it easier to change these names, advocates say the wheels of government must turn faster.

Increasing numbers of visitors to Far North Queensland are learning about traditional culture on country. The Indigenous guides showing them around say it goes to the meaning of reconciliation.

In less than six years Queensland Health has been forced to pay out more than $390 million to more than 1,000 people injured as a result medical negligence in public hospitals. Michael Stewart was one of them.

The lawyer of a prominent Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a boy has told the court the claims against his client had been either fabricated or mistaken.

The expansive red dirt plains of north-west Queensland are littered with the skeletons of hundreds of car bodies, but residents may have found a solution.

Bonza workers are told they will remain stood down for at least another two weeks, as administrators scramble to find investors to support the troubled airline.