The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Lismore council says waste will be transferred to a quarry site identified by state government near Teven

The Queensland premier has defended flood mitigation releases from Wivenhoe Dam, but says there will be an independent review of the disaster.

The death toll from the east coast floods across New South Wales and Queensland has risen to 21

Flood warnings stretched across Australia's east coast on Tuesday and tens of thousands of Sydney residents fled their homes as torrential rains again pummeled the country's largest city, flooding several big suburbs. Australia's eastern rivers were already near capacity following record downpours in several parts of Queensland and New South…

A coronial inquest into the death of Queensland woman Doreen Langham hears that a police officer who attended her property before it was set on fire could have checked the history of the man believed to be responsible for her death.

The BOM says a wind change looks set to bring atmospheric instability and more storms before easing by early on Thursday, as the heatwave continues in the state's north.

Queensland Corrective Services have confirmed that a 57-year-old man has died in his cell at Townsville Correctional Centre.

The Queensland government is investigating after three women reportedly were sent home by a remote northwest hospital and died of rheumatic heart disease.

Another five people have died with COVID-19 in Queensland as the state records 4397 new cases, but hospitalisations have fallen to less than 270.

Experts are telling parents to be alert, but not alarmed, about community transmission of the mosquito-borne disease Japanese encephalitis, after it was found in Queensland.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles said more than 15,000 property damage assessments had now been conducted across south-east Queensland and 1,778 had "severe" damage.