A MAN has been stabbed three times in the back after trying to intervene in an argument outside a hotel at Rosewood, west of Brisbane, overnight. Police allege the 34-year-old man was attacked...

FIRE saftey experts are investigating Brisbane's Palace backpackers hostel to see if the building meets safety requirements following a fire overnight. A Queensland Fire and Rescue Service spokesman...

THE condition of convicted child killer Valmae Faye Beck, formerly known as Fay Cramb, has improved and it is believed she is out of a coma. The Department of Corrective services said Beck was now...

THIS joey, dubbed Hobart, is the sole survivor of a senseless killing spree at a far north Queensland crocodile farm that police are treating as sabotage. The tiny eight-month-old paddymelon was...

TWO men and two girls involved in a police chase in Brisbane's inner southeast overnight were injured when their car crashed. One man is in a crictical condition. About 2.15am a police officer...

A fire safety officer is investigating Brisbane's Palace backpackers hostel to see if the building meets safety requirements following a fire overnight. A small overnight fire forced up to 200...

New South Wales will secure a super 14 home semi-final if it beats Queensland at Lang Park tonight. Despite the Reds sitting 11th on the ladder with just three wins, Waratahs coach Ewen McKenzie...

A 27-year-old man was killed in a single vehicle crash at Logan Village, south of Brisbane, overnight. Police said initial investigations indicate the man was driving north in a ute on Waterford...

REVILED child killer Valmae Beck has emerged from her coma and is partly coherent - but it could still be days before detectives are able to interview her. The 64-year-old prisoner, who is morbidly...

A Brisbane man who savagely attacked his ex-girlfriend and her family with two samurai swords after she dumped him has been jailed for 15 years. On Wednesday, 26-year-old Benjamine Albert Hester...

Gold Coast was on track to maintain its perfect home record at Skilled Park, holding a 16-10 lead over the Bulldogs at the break in their round 10 NRL clash at Robina this evening. Meanwhile in...

VANDALS armed with a gun have broken into a Queensland wildlife farm and almost wiped out a herd of tame pademelons. Some of the small, kangaroo-like marsupials had tiny joeys which had to be...

Fruit growers says the Queensland Government's decision to stop issuing permits allowing orchardists to shoot flying foxes will mean consumers will pay more for their produce. They say culling...

A Queensland child sex offender described as a "borderline psychopath" who felt no remorse for his crimes is to be allowed to remain in the community. In 2006 an order was made under the Dangerous...

The Queensland Government is asking rural women for help to tackle health, education and employment issues in regional Queensland. Local Government Minister Warren Pitt says the State Government...

Gold Coast Titans coach John Cartwright says tonight's clash with the Bulldogs at Skilled Park is a dangerous game for his team. Cartwright says positions on the premiership table count for little...

Two men will face court in Brisbane today charged over a multi-million dollar offshore tax avoidance scheme.The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will allege the men, a 62-year-old from Samford north...

QUEENSLAND'S Attorney-General Kerry Shine has lost an appeal to have a serial pedophile returned to jail. The Attorney-General argued in the Queensland Court of Appeal that Raymond Yeo, 62, should...

A Meandarra farming family says it will easily beat the world record for wheat planting but needs some rain to get started. The Coggan family want to plant more than 680 hectares of wheat on their...

The Mayor of the South Burnett Regional Council says the Queensland Government is ignoring mainstream communities that live near Indigenous townships. The State Government is negotiating with...

A 34-year-old man is due to face court today charged over an armed robbery south of Brisbane. It is alleged he assaulted and robbed two men, aged 69 and 79, at a unit complex on Kingston Road in...

Police are investigating two overnight armed robberies in Brisbane. A man carrying a syringe robbed a liquor store at Moorooka on Brisbane's southside. The second incident occurred on the northside...

Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef have released more documents which they say shed new information about his arrest and the Federal Government's decision to cancel his visa. The former Gold Coast-based...

A woman was left dazed after an attempted bag snatch on the Gold Coast last night. Superintendent Jim Keogh says the incident happened at Southport about 7:00pm AEST. "The lady was just heading...

A WOMAN almost gave birth in a storeroom at the Gold Coast Hospital last week because the State Government drastically underestimated the demand for maternity beds despite glaring evidence that the...

AIR safety investigators will today examine the wreckage of a light plane which crashed in north Queensland, killing the pilot. Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) spokesman Ian Brokenshire...

A TEENAGE driver has been killed and his 18-year-old male passenger seriously injured when their car hit a tree on Brisbane's southside. Police said the men were driving along Fernvale Road at...

A 33-YEAR-OLD mother of three has denied she had sex with her son's 14-year-old schoolmate, sending her own children to bed to have sex with the boy. The woman, who cannot be named, pleaded not...

TWO boys, one aged just 15, have been charged with the assault of two older youths in a vicious attack in Brisbane's City which resulted in broken bones. About 10pm last night, the two 17-year-olds...

THE death of a north Queensland baby has prompted an urgent state and federal investigation into a widely-used ventilator. Born 17 weeks premature...

QUEENSLAND'S top surgeons are being forced to down scalpels for up to six months to take leave - leaving their patients having to wait even longer for operations. Queensland Health has allowed...

RUGBY league legend Shane Webcke is quitting the Darling Downs land he bought through his successful career with the Brisbane Broncos. His property Summer Hill,...

QUEENSLAND'S rural firefighting service is at risk of becoming unsustainable because of its poor management, training and ageing volunteer workforce. In a damning report tabled in State Parliament...

ELEVEN thousand litres of boiling-hot bitumen transformed a lush suburban garden into a crude roadway yesterday when a runaway tanker crashed into a tree and burst. ...

SHOOTING flying foxes will be illegal in Queensland from September after an eight-year campaign by conservationists. Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara said yesterday that no more permits would...

Brisbane Lions . "We're just trying to recover what we think's owed to us," Bulldogs chief executive Todd Greenberg said yesterday. "It's a last resort." The Bulldogs had first...

The Queensland Government has been condemned for spending $173,000 moving a Labor MP into a new office that is set to be demolished. The southern Brisbane electorate office of MP and former TV...

Seven Queensland pharmacists have been barred from selling medicines after being caught out supplying excessive amounts of pseudoephedrine (PSE) products. The substance is contained in common cold...

A pilot was killed today when his light aircraft ditched into a dry riverbed in far north Queensland. Police are investigating the outback crash. Police and State Emergency Service crews were called...

A TEENAGE hoon with an appalling traffic history today had one of his cars confiscated under Queensland's tough new anti-hooning laws, but is likely to spend less than four months behind bars. ...

after reading the story in the quest newspaper and reading the details I find this story very hard to swallow.( no pun intended) Most people i know that buy chips are eating them long before they get...

A GOLD Coast man accused of what could be Australia's biggest art heist has turned himself in to police after a court issued an arrest warrant. Brett Michael Williams pleaded guilty late last year...

The Brisbane City Council has revealed it has spent $90,000 so far addressing problems with the trees in New Farm Park. The Council today began planting new trees to replace the seven 90-year-old...

There is an event with a difference at this year's Charleville Show in Queensland's south-west. Show president Michelle Omyla says the chainsaw racing competition is already creating a buzz around...

A HOUSE had to be evacuated after 12,000 litres of hot bitumen from an overturned tanker began oozing towards it. The tanker came loose from a trailer and hit a tree in Geebung, Brisbane, about...

FOUR men will appear in court today charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in Brisbane's city centre. Police allege the men, aged 30, 25, 21 and 18, took the girl to a hotel room on May 3 and...

A COUPLE who sold their daughter into prostitution for eight months using the internet to advertise her services should spend twice as long in jail, a court has heard. In what was described as the...

HEALTH Minister Stephen Robertson has shrugged off top-level warnings over the dangerous practice of leaving patients parked in ambulances at Townsville Hospital's emergency department. For three...

The Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) says it is not to blame for 236 long haul passengers waiting on the tarmac at the Brisbane Airport for two-and-a-half hours this morning. Spokeswoman Rebecca...

A pregnant woman was forced to wait in a Gold Coast hospital storeroom because there were no free beds. The Queensland Opposition says poor Government planning is continuing to cause problems in the...