The Latest Breaking News from Qld

Powers to search for knives without reasonable suspicion will be expanded in Queensland after a trial found 197 weapons including machetes and knitting needles.

Activists are calling on the Queensland government to publicly release its assessment of plans to protect the Lake Eyre Basin before Christmas.

An elderly Queensland farmer has survived being trapped in mud for two days after falling from his tractor.

The Queensland government will review whether electricity generators can maintain "system reliability and security" during its planned renewables transition.

Changes to Queensland's environmental laws have been criticised by gas and coal producers as a costly imposition of more "green tape".

Queensland police tasered a woman when she allegedly pulled a knife out as she was being questioned for dangerous driving.

A managing scientist at Forensic and Scientific Services Queensland has again been accused of lying as she returns to a commission of inquiry for a third day.

Queensland has passed laws for courier conditions to be set, parental leave more flexible and domestic violence leave to be extended to casual workers.

Queensland's premier says United Nations inspectors will be allowed to physically visit detained mental health patients under laws being drafted.

The Queensland government has denied hindering UN prison inspectors, saying they were only stopped from visiting some detainees with severe mental illness.

A West Australian coroner remains "concerned" and "troubled" about police use of a physical restraint that has been linked to deaths in custody, recommending even stricter limits as part of findings into the death of Noongar man Roderick Narrier.