Gold Coast couple Nicole Wilson and Mark Wilson ventured 1600km to marry at the Birdsville music festival

How can it be so easy to fall into a romance based on text messages, internet liaisons and phone calls? An expert says scammers know exactly what their victims want to hear.

A Queensland dairy farmer says the only way the industry will survive is if people pay $1.50 a litre, with production costs skyrocketing in the drought.

The road travelled by many a middle-aged working mum is full of obstacles and few obvious rewards, so running a half-marathon on a Sunday morning is nothing and in a sense everything.

Queensland painter Wayne Malkin claims a record for creating the world's smallest painting on the end of a matchstick, but he won't make it into the record books.

State Emergency Service volunteers from across the Sunshine Coast, Gympie and Noosa are continuing to search for a 14-year-old boy who has been missing for 12 days.

Search crews looking for 14-year-old Michael Ryan, who disappeared a fortnight ago on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, find a body, with police saying it is believed to be the missing teenager.

Why does the Australian Tax Office require people to tick a mental illness box for early access to their superannuation to fund gender transition surgery?

Video released by Queensland police shows the efforts of some officers helping to evacuate the Peregian area during wild bushfires on the Sunshine Coast on Monday.

The dramatic rescue of 94-year-old Andrew Michael from the Peregian Beach firestorm on Monday was captured on video. He's now returned home and says his rescuers did "a very good job".

A 25-year-old man lures two boys to a secluded location and offers to pay them $5 for oral sex, just months after he was given bail for possessing graphic and violent child porn material, a court hears.

Building an artificial reef could be the key to stabilising a popular beach at Queensland's Inskip Point that suffers from repeated landslips, a geotechnical expert says.

Police urge beachgoers and motorists to be considerate of each other after video emerges of a confrontation between a driver and holidaymakers who had set up camp along Rainbow Beach.

A local politician's stab at finding romance on reality television could backfire, as the Noosa Mayor considers a code of conduct probe into Councillor Jess Glasgow.

Chemical experts warn a Queensland council that a plan to dump millions of litres of PFAS-contaminated water into the sea off the Sunshine Coast as "insanity".

Dozens of residents from the Peregian Beach area have evacuated.

It has been three weeks since the NT's last COVID-19 diagnosis and this weekend some Northern Territory parks will reopen.

A 23-year-old man is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a 1.8 metre crocodile while fishing in Arnhem Land. Police say he managed to hold onto mangroves until the croc let go.

Researchers say they've found early signs of a positive impact in the NT and health groups want the measure rolled out around the country, but an alcohol lobby group says the research is inconclusive.

From May 15, Territorians will be able to sweat it out at the gym, dine at a restaurants and get their nails done. And from June 5, they can get a tattoo or head to a nightclub.

Northern Territorians are hitting the roads, pools and sportsgrounds in droves today, for the beginning of one of Australia's largest wind backs of coronavirus restrictions.

Signs urging people to stay 1.5 metres apart mark the entrance to Litchfield National Park, and police patrols ensure the instructions are obeyed.

Lawyers for a former senior NT police officer facing rape allegations can access the identity of a whistleblower who complained about him, an NT Supreme Court judge rules.

There's growing debate about how we get out of this pandemic. Where is the off ramp and what's at the end of the slip road?

New modelling suggests the recurrence of COVID-19 will depend on human immunity to the virus, which remains an open question.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank play a key role in aiding low- and middle-income countries during a pandemic.

At the moment human vaccine trials are testing whether the vaccine is safe, what dose you need to induce a good antibody response and finally whether that antibody response is enough to prevent infection with this coronavirus. All that takes time.

Coronaviruses are well-studied in animals. What lessons does veterinary medicine have for this pandemic?

Australia's next generation $20 banknote design continues to feature a portrait of John Flynn who pioneered the world's first aerial medical service in 1928, now known as the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Innamincka, near the Queensland border, is used to floods of water and tourists and accessing healthcare can be a problem. Now, a new remote "self-service" telehealth clinic aims to change that.

As water supplies run low for towns reliant on the Darling River in western NSW, the Government says it has drought-proofed Broken Hill with a 270-kilometre pipeline from the Murray River.

A farmer at the centre of the Menindee fish kill story has lodged a complaint with police, alleging he felt "intimidated" by a staff member of lobby group Cotton Australia.

A group of shearers tired of losing loved ones to suicide hope that, by sharing their stories, they can spark a broader conversation about mental health in regional areas.

The re-election of the Berejiklian Government for a third term has provided a morale boost for the federal Liberals, but any relief being felt will be tempered by a much bigger problem: what to do about voter discontent in the bush.

Residents in far west New South Wales are calling for a more consistent use of police body cameras following reports from witnesses about the way officers allegedly responded to a teenager who was self-harming.