The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

As the east coast deals with the latest round of tropical rain after a thoroughly wet season, the big question is if this is all going to end sometime soon.

Large parts of Tropical North Queensland and the central coast are expecting a further drenching as a severe weather system moves toward the coast, dumping record rain.

Hundreds of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia walk off the job in a stand for better pay and work conditions, but South Australian aged care staff remained diligently at work after the Fair Work Commission put off their strike until the day after the federal election.

A Queensland man who provided the getaway car for a 2018 Father's Day fatal shooting has received a suspended jail term in Brisbane Supreme Court.

Anxiety and sleep disorders were some reasons given for prescriptions despite lack of evidence for cannabis treatment, researchers find

Truckloads of low-grade avocados left to rot in Atherton as farmers react to tight margins and oversupply

The offence should be codified into law by 2023.

Once the toast of the town, avocados in the state's far north are being dumped and left to rot.

A Queensland royal commission will probe police responses to domestic violence with the government also allocating funds to justice, support and education.