The long-time nightly newsreader says it was an "instant choice" to leave work as his daughter faced a battle with cancer.

A man and a woman who evaded police for four days will face court over an alleged violent carjacking north of Brisbane.

Fire ant treatments have been suspended on organic farms, and alternatives sought, after baits containing genetically modified soybean oil and corn grit were found to have been unwittingly distributed.

From the search for Daniel Morcombe to a flaming roadside torso, Queensland's top forensics cop deals with some of the state's worst crimes — when she's not identifying fallen Australians on WWI battlefields.

The Lockyer Valley Correctional Centre has opened for business and its first inmates are in their cells.

It's taken more than 15 years and countless failed attempts, but freestyle motocross rider Clinton Moore has landed the "impossible" trick.

A groundbreaking study has revealed the extraordinarily rich biodiversity of Australia's islands and experts say it shows tighter controls are needed to protect the most diverse island of them all.