The Latest Breaking News from Townsville

Youth workers in this Queensland city warn homeless teens fleeing abusive family lives are ending up on the street, with nowhere safe to shelter.

The Matildas will play New Zealand in regional Queensland on April 8, with Townsville to host a women's international for the first time.

Temperatures didn't drop below a record 28.9 degrees in Townsville overnight, while Charters Towers experienced its hottest March day in history.

A manhunt is underway after a prisoner serving time for assaulting police escaped from a low security area of Townsville Correctional Centre.

A woman has been left with a laceration to her arm after she was bitten by a freshwater crocodile while canoeing with her family in north Queensland's Ross River.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has compared the current floodwater effects to those of a cyclone. “At the moment, what we have is similar to like Cyclone Debbie or Cyclone Oswald or a monsoonal trough that we saw in Townsville, where it’s just sitting over the entire south-east of our state.”

The body of an 18-year-old man who apparently entered a Townsville river after a police pursuit has been found.

Police say the 18-year-old entered the Ross River in Townsville after being stopped with others in an allegedly stolen car.

Queensland's Minister for Children intervenes to stem the growing tide of complaints from foster carers, who say the government is ignoring their fears for at-risk children.

Up to 80 per cent of legal aid work in Queensland is done by outside firms, and lawyers who work in the legal aid system say their declining rate of pay is leading to "huge injustices in the legal system".

A farm double the size of Moreton Island near Townsville has been bought by the state government, with a big chunk of US funding, after two years of negotiations with a grazier.