The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

National support for a proposal to raise the criminal age from 10 to 12 is still supported by Queensland as the state rushes through tough new youth crime laws.

The Queensland Police Service has approval for 500 international recruits to join the service each year for five years.

NSW's top-order batters failed to fire, leaving Queensland requiring 198 further runs for victory with nine wickets in hand after day 3 at the Gabba.

Watch: "Hannah's law", a law against coercive control, is one step closer to being passed in Queensland three years after the murder of Hannah Clarke and

Queensland has changed the definition of domestic violence to include patterns of behaviour over time ahead of plans to criminalise coercive control.

The changes will expand the definition of domestic and family abuse to include a "pattern of behaviour" and will strengthen the offence of stalking.

WHEN Lime Spiders' frontman Mick Blood steps onto the Wickham Park Hotel stage on Friday night it'll mark an emotional return to Newcastle. The last time he visited the city he almost died. It was 2014 and Blood had just resettled in the harbourside suburb of Stockton, following the breakdown…

Queensland Police will offer a $500,000 reward for information about the disappearance of Christine Maria Fenner in February 1999.

The annual multi-location festival Groovin the Moo has ditched its north Queensland leg in favour of the Sunshine Coast, leaving residents feeling snubbed.

One of Australia's longest-running mining towns is turning 100. Here's how it grew to be among the largest of its outback cities.

Youth detention centres are at the heart of the state government's tactics for dealing with young offenders, but child advocates and youth crime victims say they are failing to rehabilitate juveniles.