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Medical negligence experts say Queensland Health's system for compensation is flawed and authorities should look across the ditch to New Zealand for a fairer and simpler process.

Drivers are hopeful headaches and honking horns on a notoriously busy stretch of the Bruce Highway will be a thing of the past as the long-awaited Gympie Bypass offers a "magic run".

A regional domestic violence service says the time to rehome women and children has more than doubled since last year amid the national housing crisis.

An urgent care clinic set up by the federal government to relieve pressure on emergency departments has suddenly closed less than a year after it opened in regional Queensland.

Dappled sunlight falls on a collection of potted saplings ready for planting that could change the course of a native species' survival.

A police officer is recovering in hospital after a teenage driver allegedly struck him with a stolen car in the regional Queensland city of Bundaberg.

It has been revealed the 300,000 megalitre dam south-west of Bundaberg will cost at least $4.4 billion to rebuild. However, the dam operator says the cost could go even higher.

Anglers are reeling in plenty of barramundi from a Queensland dam that could lose some prized stock if more rain forces it to spill.

Storms are expected to continue across parts of Queensland this weekend, while a heatwave in the state's north-west could deliver temperatures in the mid-to-high 40s.

A 32-year-old man who was taken to hospital with minor burns has been charged with arson.