Queensland

Insurance claims for damage linked to ex-tropical cyclone Alfred and earlier record flooding in north Queensland have almost reached $1.5 billion, data shows.

A psychiatrist who stopped medicating the man who would become one of Australia's worst mass killers will be questioned at an inquest into the Bondi Junction stabbing massacre.

Emergency services tried in vain to save the life of a young child after a horrific car crash involving a teenage driver in Queensland.

Nearly two years after an army helicopter crash claimed four lives, an inquiry has ended after unearthing concerns about the aircraft and pilot fatigue.

The mother-of-three is being remembered as a ‘beacon of light’.

Specialist police, some in body armour, rushed to the area where an exclusion zone was set up and the highway closed in both directions. 

The army has arrived at the scene, using defence-issued vehicles to block the highway.

A pilot’s complaint that work burdens would ‘ultimately kill me’ went unheard by army aviation’s commander before a helicopter crash killed him and three others, an inquiry has been told.

It is ‘not satisfactory’ that a terrorism suspect was able to evade tracking while on bail and kill two people before police shot him, a coroner says.

Two children have died from their injuries sustained in a suspicious house fire, bringing the death toll to three after the body of a nine-year-old boy was found in the ruins.

Two young sisters, critically injured in the blaze, had their life support switched off overnight.

A neighbour has described the moment he realised someone was still inside a "suspicious" house fire after six people escaped the blaze in the early morning.

An international student accused of murdering his partner and concealing her body in a toolbox for 10 months is expected to give evidence in his own defence, as the Brisbane Supreme Court hears further forensic and witness testimony.

A child body has tragically been discovered inside a burnt out home in Queensland, as a 34-year old woman, along with two other kids, are fighting for life in hospital.

What first seemed like a tragic kayaking accident on a Queensland lake turned into the focus of a ‘complex and lengthy’ murder investigation, with police charging a man more than four years later.