The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Health-care professionals have recently called on the Queensland government to mandate fluoride in drinking water across the state, where water fluoridation coverage lags behind other Australian states and territories.

Residents battling large influx of rats as numbers boom

A sea of rats has been washing up dead on the beach, with others scurrying across boat ramps into garden sheds and homes

A rat plague has swept through a far north Queensland fishing town, which is looking to the heavens to help solve the growing crisis.

Dwindling youth justice staff numbers ‘major factor’ driving crime and repeat offending, state parliamentary committee told

Queensland's health minister will bring together emergency department bosses to address ambulance ramping after two people died in as many days.

More Queensland women will soon have the option of giving birth at home, bringing the state into line with every Australian state except one.

Environment department questions feasibility of Waratah Coal’s claims about the use of carbon offsets, credits, and capture and storage

"Every dead rat on the road had another three or four rats eating it."

The search is on for three men who escaped from a prison in north Queensland.

Many believe Gold Coast councillor Ryan Bayldon-Lumsden will contest election despite being charged with stepfather’s murder