A regional council looks set to hand back $1 million in drought funding as the Federal Government concedes it needs to review how it hands out assistance to communities battling dry weather.

Feral pigs capable of leaving behind industrial-looking trails of destruction are posing a threat to one of the world's most significant archaeological sites.

Big business is set to be hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in extra taxes and royalties as the Palaszczuk Government seeks to tap the top end of town to deliver payroll tax relief to small- and medium-sized businesses, in the hope of boosting jobs particularly in regional Queensland.

Not long ago, Aboriginal people in Cherbourg were ruled by a government-appointed "protector". Now the elders are involved in running the courts.

A man who allegedly stabbed a woman in the hand and stole two cars is shot by police on the Bruce Highway on the Sunshine Coast, and is taken from the scene in an ambulance.

A Sunshine Coast mother witnesses the moment alleged car jacker Dylan Matthew Hammond was shot by police and run over by a caravan after a 200-kilometre pursuit that ended on the Bruce Highway yesterday.

Eden Camac, who has a complex disability, broke both hips and his left leg while at a supported accommodation facility. An ambulance was not called until 10 hours after the incident and his family wants to know what went wrong.

Almost 11,000 people sign an online petition demanding the Director of Public Prosecutions appeal the sentence of a Maryborough man who bashed a two-year-old girl, leaving her with a broken back in 2017, with the Queensland Opposition calling on the Palaszczuk Government to act immediately.

From his nursing home in Hervey Bay, 98-year-old Jack Hanson remembers how a few hundred Australians fought off thousands of Japanese troops, in a David and Goliath battle on Timor.

The former mayor of the Fraser Coast Regional Council has been found guilty of using his position to push for his former campaign manager to be appointed his chief-of-staff.

Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who claims he made the world's first "gene-edited" babies by altering human embryos in 2018, is convicted on charges of practising medicine illegally, according to Chinese state media.

After months of uncertainty for canegrowers, German-owned Nordzucker acquires a 70 per cent stake in Mackay Sugar.

Parents living in a mining town with one of the country's lowest unemployment rates are turning down jobs because there is no childcare available.

A second man is extradited to Queensland from New South Wales, charged with murder over the disappearance of Jay Brogden in north Queensland in 2007.

It's a 73-year-old event, but for the first time, wheelchair dancers have taken to the stage at the Mackay Eisteddfod in north Queensland, to the audience's delight.

North Queensland backbencher George Christensen will seek the British Government's permission to meet with the WikiLeaks founder ahead of his extradition hearing next year.

An English tourist has his foot bitten off and his friend suffers serious injuries when they are attacked by a shark while snorkelling in the Whitsundays.

A teenage driver is jailed for running a red light and fatally crashing her car at high speed into an elderly woman in the Perth suburb of Floreat.

Police rule a woman whose body was found on the verge of a road in the Perth suburb of St James died due to a medical condition and say there are no suspicious circumstances.

The husband of a woman found dead at a Nollamara home by family members is charged with murdering his wife sometime between Wednesday and Saturday last week.

A Perth man who viewed violence as an acceptable way to manage his relationships is jailed for life for killing his partner, who had a chronic heart condition, by bashing her to death with his fists and a metal pipe.

The decision to scrap the World Super Six golf tournament in Perth is a major blow to the sport in Western Australia, but a pitch for the Women's Australian Open could be just what the state needs, writes Tom Wildie.

Perth brothers Ambrose and Xavier Clarke, who had their original murder convictions quashed, are given heavier sentences after being found guilty for the second time for killing a business partner.

When Keennan Dickie contacted police for help after her rib was broken in a violent robbery, she was instead arrested and sent to jail for failing to pay traffic fines, a situation branded a "shame on WA".

Attorney-General John Quigley intervenes to order woman's release from prison for murdering her partner after her history as a victim of domestic violence came to light, declaring "now is the time for mercy".

The ACT is in the spotlight right now for marijuana law reform. But years ago another Australian state went down a very similar path in loosening the law when it came to recreational cannabis use.

Fremantle appoints former player and current Collingwood assistant coach Justin Longmuir as head coach after sacking Ross Lyon last month, with Longmuir declaring he has "unfinished business" at the Dockers.

Appointing coaches just because they have played for that club is not always the best strategy, but Justin Longmuir ticks all the boxes for Fremantle. Now he just needs to tick a few more, writes Clint Thomas.

Thinking about going into small business? Matt Godfrey ditched his career as a geologist to sell dumplings from a food truck. His best advice is to find a gap in the market and be realistic about money.

A 22-year-old Perth man accused of using a cigarette lighter and boiling water to deliberately inflict serious burns on a two-year-old girl he was looking after claims she pulled a pot of boiling noodles onto herself.

Low-cost airline Jetstar announces it will start running three flights a week between Melbourne and Busselton in the south-west of WA.

Star midfielder Tim Kelly says having two of his three sons diagnosed with autism while living on the other side of the country from his family was a major factor pushing his trade from Geelong to the West Coast Eagles.

Test all-rounder Mitch Marsh is likely to miss at least the first Test of the season after punching a dressing-room wall during Western Australia's Sheffield Shield draw with Tasmania, breaking his bowling hand.