The Latest Breaking News from Townsville

The youth justice department will conduct an urgent review into how long a 13-year-old boy was held in solitary confinement at a Townsville detention centre.

The Queensland government may have broken its own laws by locking up two 13-year-old boys in their cells for up to 24 hours a day at the troubled Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville.

Fifteen Bluewater State School children being treated by the Townsville Hospital and Health Service have been discharged after eating an unknown substance.

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Fourteen Queensland children are in hospital after they became sick from eating an unknown substance on a school bus in Townsville.

More than a dozen children are in hospital after they became sick from eating an unknown substance on a school bus.

Paramedics were called to Bluewater State School, north of Townsville, just after 10am after 22 children ingested an "unknown substance" which the ABC understands was lollies.

A man who shared videos of himself capturing freshwater crocodiles on social media has been found guilty of 12 counts of taking a protected animal in Townsville.