Emily Dobson

A couple, aged in their 50s, have been rescued after their four-wheel drive was washed away in crocodile-infested floodwaters in north-west Queensland.

Never short of a soundbite, the MP has gone from country kid to Bjelke-Petersen-era Queensland, to federal parliament. 

An outback surveying business owner says he can't commit to contracts in a region where his skills are desperately needed.

Do you know what happens when a business enters voluntary administration? We asked an expert to explain in simple terms. 

The Office of the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor has laid charges over the deaths of Dylan Langridge and Trevor Davis at an underground zinc mine in Queensland.

After nearly 10,000 races, industry legend Keith Ballard says it's time to get out while he’s still in one piece. He'll be farewelled at his home racetrack in Mount Isa this weekend.

The Bureau of Meteorology has recorded 146 kilometre per hour gusts at the Julia Creek airport as a ferocious storm has torn through the region.

An Aboriginal elder who forks out more than 80 per cent of her income on groceries hopes the government can further subsidise the cost of transporting goods to her Gulf island community.

Underground in a mine deeper than the height of the world's tallest building, this outback couple got engaged and they're believed to be the first to do so at the busy worksite.

Residents are told they should monitor as a quick-moving blaze approaches Cloncurry in north-west Queensland.

As the mercury continues to rise, crews are on stand-by to tackle worsening conditions. 

The cost of living and a downturn in ticket sales have led to the collapse of the board that runs the famed Mount Isa rodeo.

Miley is the first baby to be delivered via altruistic surrogacy in the North West Queensland outback, where healthcare with a reputation as hard to access has brought a family's dreams to life.

Crippling doctor shortages have been an age-old burden in the outback, but a unique partnership hopes taking to the sky could be the solution.

While city slickers complain about long commutes to work, bush students travelling a 240km round trip to school each day are enjoying the ride.

Each year chef Jan Slottje packs up her home in Brisbane to spend eight months running this remote outback kitchen, and her sweet delicacies have tourists drooling.

The financial burden on rural Queensland healthcare patients is growing with inflation and advocates say they need relief at the October state election.  

The project, near the Queensland town of Hughenden, would see one of the biggest wind farms in the country built in the state's north west. 

Embattled airlines aren’t new for regional Australia, but an aviation pioneer says it is possible to service remote communities without going bust. 

Forensic testing is being carried out on human remains found on the outskirts of Camooweal, a small township 190 kilometres north-west of Mount Isa, with police believing they belong to the one person.

Police will allege a 47-year-old north Queensland man assaulted six women and children known to him between 1998 and 2023.

Cattle on a property in the outback are mustered by drones while the pilot sits far away on the Gold Coast during a world-first demonstration for graziers.

The expansive red dirt plains of north-west Queensland are littered with the skeletons of hundreds of car bodies, but residents may have found a solution.

It is said that good things come in threes, but not for the Wilsons. They've been battered by three floods in less than a year, forced to raise their roadhouse by three metres, and now face a $3 million damage bill.

When Bradley Luke was playing golf earlier this year he was hoping for a hole in one, not life-threatening holes in his leg. He's one of several outback residents to have survived a deadly snake bite in recent months as reptile numbers soar.