Rachael Merritt

Program: PM Presented by North Queensland whale watching tours are celebrating the best season for humpback sightings in two decades.

By Rachael Merritt ABC North Qld Topic: Animals A pair of "bold" cassowaries has been pestering campers in north Queensland.

In short: Parts of Queensland's Magnetic Island have been without phone or internet services for days, after damage to the connection line.

In short: A 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 39-year-old woman on Palm Island. Police allege the man and woman were known to each other.

When it comes to country music, there's a reason why Slim Dusty is known as "The King".

Mark Herron told his wife of 35 years he loved her as she ended her life through voluntary assisted dying.

Within hours of a trap being set in a popular Queensland waterway a crocodile has taken the bait.

Police have told a coronial inquest they did not believe the death of a young Indigenous man who drowned while escaping arrest in Townsville could have been prevented.

Parts of South Australia have been warned to prepare for catastrophic fire conditions tomorrow as the state swelters through a burst of early summer season heat, with neighbouring regions in Victoria also on high alert.

An inquest has heard a father who killed his baby daughter at the Whispering Wall spoke about taking her to the site months before the murder-suicide.