A world-first trial to grow Taiwanese lychee super varieties is underway in Central Queensland.

Despite a fortnight of hot, dry weather, Jack Walker's property in Theodore still has hailstones covered by a thin layer of dirt and debris.

A leading science institute finds Queensland must move more quickly towards renewable energy and away from coal-fired power by 2030 to meet its share of the nation's emissions reduction targets.

LIVExchange 2019, an annual live exporters conference and themed 'welfare beyond borders', acknowledges of the public relations problems the trade faces.

An abandoned southern Great Barrier Reef island off the coast of central Queensland, has seen guests visit for the first time in five years.

Tour operators at a Queensland national park fear it will not be long until someone is killed or seriously injured in the quest for the perfect social media photo.

The mayor of Woorabinda, a small Indigenous community in central Queensland, says until their land is converted from a government lease to freehold, it is still like living on a mission.

Following a boom in craft beers comes the new trend, craft gin, with Australian spirits the international flavour of the moment.

Police launch an investigation after a 12-year-old girl said she was tied up and sexually assaulted in bushland on the NSW Central Coast by a man with a knife while on her walk to school.

A team of homeschooled students will this week travel overseas, most of them for the first time, to compete in an international Lego robotics competition in Denmark.

A new report's list of affordable suburbs reveals first home buyers in Sydney and Melbourne need to be searching as much as 100 kilometres from the CBD.

A man who attempted to abduct a woman on the NSW Central Coast on Sunday is believed to be the same person who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl last month.

A new program supporting young innovators in regional Australia is launched by the ABC and the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development.

The father of a young girl who uses medicinal cannabis to treat her severe form of epilepsy vows to continue lobbying for law reform, after being found guilty of charges of possession and cultivation.

A man is charged with possessing a prohibited firearm after police find an MP40 submachine gun, the type of firearm used extensively by Nazi soldiers during World War II, in a car on the NSW Central Coast.

Regional communities are being touted as winners in this year's New South Wales budget, crowned by a Regional Growth Fund of more than $1 billion for projects to promote economic advancement outside of cities.

A year's worth of accumulated wisdom rests easy on the shoulders of current World Surf League ratings leader, Matt Wilkinson.

Police search for two men believed to be involved in a shooting on the New South Wales Central Coast today, in which a 22-year-old man died and another man was injured.

A 28-year-old man is charged with murder of Jayden Mason, who was found unconscious on a road on the NSW Central Coast last month, while two other men are arrested in connection with his death.

A taser is deployed as police seize two vehicles and raid properties after the arrest of three people over a fatal shooting at Wyong on the New South Wales Central Coast yesterday.

A fake doctor working at a Sydney hospital was detected as a fraud but allowed to continue working in the health system, an independent inquiry is told.

A NSW Central Coast man has been donning camouflage to attack girls, one as young as 12, with police describing the clothing worn in one attack as a ghillie suit.

Former Robertson MP Belinda Neal, who once told a fellow parliamentarian her baby would turn into a demon, is expelled from the Labor party over alleged branch stacking.

Dash cam vision shows a man punching a woman in the face in a suspected road rage incident on the New South Wales Central Coast, with the woman posting on social media she "smashed his window" after being hit.

A man is hit and killed by a garbage truck on the NSW Central Coast, with the driver left "significantly traumatised" as the men had become good friends over the years.

A man is charged over a road rage incident, captured on a mobile phone, on the New South Wales Central Coast

Police charge a 21-year-old woman over a road rage incident on the NSW Central Coast, after footage of the assault went viral and a 41-year-old man was also charged.

A man is taken to hospital after crashing an allegedly stolen truck full of donuts and flavoured milk into a family home on the Central Coast.

A third person is charged over a road rage incident on the central coast, which became viral on social media as it showed a man punching a woman in the face.

A private rideshare-style service to move people between their doorstep and the train station will be trialled in Sydney and on the Central Coast, the New South Wales Government announces.

NSW Police charge a man who allegedly wore a camouflage suit as he abducted and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl while she was walking to school on the Central Coast three months ago.

A video posted on social media shows a man getting out of a vehicle, walking towards a woman as she stood next to her ute, and appearing to punch her in the face.

A Newcastle immunologist on trial for abusing dozens of women has argued vaginal and anal examinations he performed on patients were for medical, not sexual reasons.