Christopher Testa

Police are urgently scouring surveillance footage as they investigate a "horrific" rock-throwing incident on a tourist train that seriously injured a young boy.

A woman who tried to murder her mother by slashing her throat with a box cutter has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

A Liberal National Party candidate in Far North Queensland hopes voters forgive her for a Nazi-related social media gaffe but admits it may cost her votes in the state election.

Two more teenagers have been granted bail, accused of being involved in a rock throwing incident that left a five-year-old boy with a fractured skull.

A court has ordered a former Queensland state MP to pay more than $150,000 for defaming a local government executive whom he likened to a fictional intergalactic crime boss.

Hundreds more Australians stranded in Vanuatu after devastating earthquakes will be flown back home on RAAF flights early this evening.

Scientists have calculated the cost after flooding and landslides pushed debris over inshore coral reefs in Far North Queensland.

It has been a decade since the tragic deaths of eight children in a suburban home in Far North Queensland.

Thomas Herridge has achieved his goal of getting his young family home for Christmas, a year after waist-high water went through their house in post-cyclone Jasper floods in far north Queensland.

A banana farm worker charged over a Christmas Day hit-and-run collision that killed a man in his 20s has been granted bail.