Every year for the past two decades, the tiny Queensland town of Weengallon has played host to huge crowds of women dressed in pink who gather for a good cause.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk visits drought-ravaged Granite Belt, where dam levels are so low water could run out by December. She vows she will not allow that to happen but needs a written request for help from council.

Hayfa Adi was abducted by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, held for more than two years and repeatedly raped, beaten and traded like livestock. Now living in Australia, she is trying to find out what happened to her husband.

Ballandean rural firefighter Aaron Cox whose viral photo captured the hearts of Queenslanders following a horror bushfire emergency says he's glad the image gave people an avenue to thank the wider firefighting community.

As Queensland's Darling Downs continues to experience one of its worst droughts on record, a scientist and a horticulturalist have developed a recycled watering system to keep their garden alive.

Another Queensland dairy farmer forced to send his herd to the meatworks says it may not have come to that if major supermarkets had passed on milk price increases.

Over half a century, the Roma Saleyards in southern Queensland have become more than just a place to sell and buy livestock. They're a meeting point, a social occasion and even an unlikely tourist destination.

At least one home is destroyed and there are fears for several others as fire crews deal with a bushfire emergency at Laidley in Queensland's Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane.

The blaze, which is now contained but still smouldering, had prompted a warning for locals in nearby Marburg to evacuate. The warning has been lifted but authorities are still fighting about 30 fires across the state.

The 36-year-old's family were preparing to embark on a new chapter in their lives, moving closer to friends and community. Now they're preparing the husband and father's funeral.

The battle between Turkey and Syria may be 13,000 kilometres from Toowoomba, but the effect of the war is being anxiously felt by the Queensland city's new Kurdish community.

A company working on the Shell-owned Queensland Gas Corporation project tells job applicants they will not be accepted until they submit to blood tests to check if they are at risk of heart attack, high cholesterol and other conditions.

The simple genetic "heel-prick" test for newborns is saving the lives of children in New South Wales and the ACT, but elsewhere parents say their children aren't being afforded the same chance of survival in the face of rare diseases like Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

One year ago, Tanya Wittmann couldn't swim. Today she is qualified in swift water rescue and hopes to encourage other women to join the SES.

Demons footballer Michael Hibberd makes an emotional tribute to his older brother, who went missing while fishing earlier this week.

Like anyone at the end of their working life, when Matilda the Commonwealth Games mascot retired she had one thing in mind travel. Curious Brisbane tracks her adventures these past 36 years, and reveals where she can be found today.

Red-and-yellow flags are now planted on beaches up and down the coast, but surf lifesaving in Queensland originated from a need to watch over people in the Brisbane River.

A Queensland grazier turns to donkeys to ward off wild dogs and says he hasn't lost a calf in a paddock patrolled by the feisty guardian asses.

A blogger makes legal history by successfully suing a sitting politician senator Malcolm Roberts over the 2016 dual-citizenshipsaga.

A Sunshine Coast man has been charged with rape and secretly recording a number of his female flatmates using hidden cameras, over the course of five years.

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

A Queensland medieval festival has marked a milestone anniversary with huge crowds gathering to be immersed in 1,000 years of history, from the battleground to the bedroom.

Pip the dog was found wandering alone on the Birdsville Track, but a series of lucky breaks have led her to be reunited with her owner more than 220km away.

The threat of flooding to Australia's coastal areas due to climate change is very real for some with the luxury seaside shire of Noosa in Queensland formally declaring a "climate emergency".

Safety versus spying: the legalities of using hidden cameras in a world were technology allows you to protect your home remotely.

Researchers are puzzled by the discovery of a nest of loggerhead turtle eggs in Queensland. The find seems to indicate that the creatures have been unseasonably frisky, which should be impossible.

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 23-year-old Wide Bay man is charged with dozens of offences, after allegedly leading police on a 200-kilometre pursuit, carjacking several people, and stabbing a woman earlier this month.