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An ambulance spokesman says the students reportedly ingested an unknown substance from a bag, and paramedics arrived to find one of the teens vomiting.

Townsville police allege the man became verbally aggressive and hit a piece of timber against the windscreen of a clean-up vehicle, and tried to kick and punch the 65-year-old male worker inside.

Two are dead after three separate shootings in Queensland overnight, including a man in his 20s who was shot by police in Townsville.

Tropical Cyclone Kirrily has been downgraded to a category one system as it crosses the Queensland coast, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

The cyclone is currently a category one but is expected to cross the coast as a category two system on Thursday night, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. 

Police say an e-scooter rider, who suffered serious head injuries, had been speeding away from a police vehicle in the moments before the crash in Townsville's city centre.

The popularity of homeschooling is surging to unprecedented heights in Queensland, with official registrations increasing from 3,411 in 2019 to 10,048 in 2023, and thousands more believed to be flying under the radar.

In response to a recent crime wave in Townsville, the Queensland government has ordered a dedicated police chopper and digitally encrypted radios meant to stop criminals intercepting communications. 

Leslie Ball was 71 years old when he went missing in 1993. More than 30 years later, police are urging anyone with information to help them bring closure to his family.

Amid the rubble of Ukrainian buildings destroyed by Russian attacks, Australian builders Manfred Hin and Hamish Stirling have put their lives on hold, picked up their tools and gotten to work. 

As another group of Australian soldiers prepares to head to Ukraine to train its military recruits, other Australians are volunteering to help with the reconstruction effort by rebuilding homes in the war torn country.

Police say a man who threatened them with a knife outside a hotel in Bowen this morning has been shot dead.

The 48-year-old social worker feared she would be killed when she was repeatedly rammed and chased by teenagers in an allegedly stolen car through streets in Townsville.

Dozens of extra officers have been deployed to the North Queensland city after a shocking spate of crimes, mostly committed by minors, that residents say have left them traumatised.

Vision shows the defence force evacuating four people from one of the world's most remote weather stations in the middle of the Coral Sea, which has found itself in the path of Cyclone Jasper. 

In a beaten-up ute, David Rowe is a familiar sight in the Queensland town of Lucinda, where he splashes colour and humour onto roadside canvases one power pole at a time. 

As Australians track the path of Severe Tropical Cyclone Jasper, we look back at the state's recent history of cyclones and the destruction they left behind.

With forecasts predicting Cyclone Jasper to intensify to a category five overnight tonight, a city in the cyclone's track, Mackay, is scrambling to get its weather radar back up and running.

As director Baz Luhrmann prepares to release his new TV series Faraway Downs, an extended cut of his 2008 epic Australia, the small Queensland community at the centre of it all reflects on when Hollywood came to town.

Police allege the three inmates walked out of the low-security Townsville facility and stole a ute, which was later found dumped and burnt out.

Yellow crazy ants are one of the world's worst invasive species, and authorities are fighting on the ground and in the air to stop them spreading in north Queensland where they're at risk of devastating communities and ecosystems.

Police are seeking dashcam footage and CCTV as they investigate a crash involving a car and a motorised wheelchair that killed an 85-year-old man in the Townsville suburb of Aitkenvale.

Psoriasis affects an estimated 2 to 4 per cent of Australians, and its physical, mental and financial toll can be devastating.

The Bureau of Meteorology says there's a 75 per cent chance of cyclone development off the coast of North Queensland on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.

The Bureau of Meteorology is closely monitoring a storm system that could develop into an October cyclone in the Coral Sea for the first time on record.