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A Queensland school community is in mourning after a teacher was killed in a road crash while travelling to work on the last day of school for Year 12 students.

A wildlife ranger who wrestled himself free from the jaws of a saltwater crocodile by poking it in the eyes says the reptile was particularly cunning and devious after "stalking" him while he was fishing.

A group of volunteer rural firefighters all aged over 70 challenge the retiree stereotype, donning firefighting gear and helping put out blazes near Woodgate during the bushfire emergency in southern Queensland.

An aluminium shed is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a Hindu temple, but that is exactly where the Hindu community of North Queensland are now able to worship.

An aluminium shed is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a Hindu temple, but that is exactly where the Hindu community of North Queensland are now able to worship.

Helicopter vision captures the moment a man and woman are arrested after the car they allegedly stole at gunpoint flipped during a police chase on Queensland's Bruce Highway.

Two years after buying iconic Toowoomba ice cream brand Weis, Unilever announces it will close the brand's original 60-year-old Queensland factory and move manufacturing interstate.

Declining levels of genetic diversity caused by inbreeding are making the Gold Coast's koala population more vulnerable to future bushfires and dry weather.

Experts are concerned that fire services do not have enough large aircraft to deal with the unprecedented magnitude of fires.

Ground crews and waterbombing aircraft are working to control a dangerous and fast-moving bushfire that has flared again to threaten two towns on the Darling Downs, west of Brisbane.

Experts are concerned that fire services do not have enough large-scale aircraft to deal with the unprecedented magnitude of fires Australia is now facing.

After a short-lived reprieve in conditions, authorities are bracing for the fire threat to again intensify in parts of Queensland, with the warmer weather expected to persist over the weekend.

Twenty-three former fire and emergency leaders say they tried for months to warn PM Scott Morrison that Australia needed more water-bombers to tackle increasingly severe bushfires.

Hundreds of men and women are working on the frontlines battling fires across Queensland, but behind every worker in the field is another person back at base making sure crews are fed, rested and supported.

Fed up with the daily attacks, Ryan Priestley stopped riding to work for two months in the hope the bird might forget him. But he decided to take his chances again after getting a new bike for his birthday.

The financial woes of a mining company in north-west Queensland have former employees and contractors out of pocket and the local council cutting back in certain areas because of unpaid rates.

As bushfires blazed in early September, Inspector for Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, Andrew Sturgess, said that the high fire danger ratings at that time of year were historically high. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.