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Townsville Crocodiles' owners have handed back the NBL club's licence due to crippling financial losses.

Most of the complaints about cosmetic procedures in Queensland over the past six years came from Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the state's far north.

A court has heard a woman took out a domestic violence order against her partner two months before he stabbed her to death in their home at Wishart on Brisbane's southside.

Police are continuing investigations into the discovery of what is believed to be a homemade pipe bomb at a car yard on Queensland's Gold Coast.

The Queensland Government is expanding a pilot program allowing coal mines to discharge excess water into local rivers.

A second inquest into the deaths of two Sydney nurses hears a man cleaned blood from a car at the time the women were reported missing in south-east Queensland in the 1970s.

Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg says the Federal Government has failed to respond to a Senate committee recommendation to restore funding to the state.

A man charged with murder following the discovery of human remains in Cairns in far north Queensland on the weekend has made no application for bail.

The sounds of outback Queensland's Simpson Desert have been recorded for children around the world to hear.

A leading educator on Queensland's Cape York region says Indigenous students from remote areas have more success when they go to boarding school in bigger centres.

Katter's Australian Party (KAP) says the Queensland grazing community is at breaking point and has called for federal and state governments to attend a crisis summit.

North Burnett Mayor Don Waugh says the region in southern Queensland is struggling to meet demand for accommodation in the lead-up to citrus season.

The producer of a $12 million movie project planned for outback Queensland says filming has been pushed back to 2014.

Police say they have found the motorbike used by the killer of an Australian resort manager who was shot dead in an execution-style murder in the Philippines.

Former parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper has been ordered to appear in the ACT Magistrates court next month.

Police are still investigating the theft of a dangerous substance from the Mount Isa Hospital in north-west Queensland.

Health officials in north Queensland say they are monitoring Townsville's first local dengue fever outbreak for the season.

Police are waiting to interview a woman who was badly burnt in a house fire in Rockhampton in central Queensland on the weekend.

Queensland Police Minister Jack Dempsey says he will not rule out mandatory sentencing for police assaults if a mid-year review shows offenders are getting off lightly in courts.

Australia's capacity to respond to marine oil spills will be tested as part of an international conference in far north Queensland this week.