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The 12-year-old girl, who has been placed on a support plan under the National Disability Insurance Scheme after being recently diagnosed with autism, is facing charges of deprivation of liberty and the assault of a 13-year-old girl.

The defence tells a Queensland District Court that Yohannes Abate Faris "honestly believed" the encounter was consensual as the jury retires to consider its verdict.

Researchers believe they have recorded one of the world's most unusually coloured dolphins for the first time in Australian waters.

Suellyn Lott's Sunshine Coast social housing apartment has no air conditioning.

The firefighters union is demanding the aviation regulator takes action after five Boeing 737s and a further 59 planes arrived at Sunshine Coast Airport with too few firefighters working in the past two months.

The business a young couple crowdfunded to grow a head-turning array of tasty, colourful fungi closes as failing machinery and crop losses due to constant rain prove too much to overcome.

It started as a war-time snack that reduced waste during food scarcity, but now tallow is making Australia one of the most significant players in biofuel exports.

A basic internet search that would have revealed the criminal convictions of paedophile Dean Carelse was never done when he was screened for a job as a children's lifeguard at a UK family fun park, the ABC has confirmed.

Residents of this regional town say it feels like they are stuck in the "Middle Ages," with the area still experiencing constant power losses.

Sixty-eight-year-old Suellyn Lott's Sunshine Coast apartment complex was officially opened less than 12 months ago, but she says living there is unbearable when the temperature spikes.

A court has heard a woman made it known she did not want to have sexual intercourse with Yohannes Abate Faris, who is accused of raping her on their first date in Maroochydore during early 2022.

An ABC investigation tracks former Sunshine Coast teacher and coach Dean Carelse to a family holiday park in south-west England. 

Julia and Matthew Mooney thought they'd be celebrating the new year in their new unit on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Instead, they're back to square one in their property search.

Queensland’s state-owned power grid quietly forced almost 170,000 air-conditioners in homes and businesses into low-power mode six times over summer.

Many Australian bowls clubs are battling to stay open, but one establishment has bucked the trend by offering camping in the hope of developing a national trail for tourists.

Eighth-generation farmer Peter Wise, whose family had been working land on the Sunshine Coast since 1901, has passed away after a short stay in hospital at the age of 82.

South Australians will argue it's a fritter, while Victorians tend to call it a potato cake — hence the backlash over the Queensland-born opposition leader's post on Sunday where he didn't call it a scallop.

From sandbags to generators, this is what you need to know ahead of a tropical cyclone forecast to make landfall in north Queensland between Cardwell and Bowen.

The slow-moving system is still gathering moisture over the Coral Sea, meaning it will bring rain to a broad area once it crosses over land. 

Future Tropical Cyclone Kirrily is expected to cross the Queensland coast on Thursday as a severe system.

When Chris Pyatt found out his small business had been listed as "permanently closed" on Apple Maps, with the pin in the wrong location, he realised he had a costly problem on his hands.

Silent films started screening at the Majestic Theatre almost by accident. Thirty-five years later, they are still rolling — and they still come with musical accompaniment.

The man who raped and murdered two young girls, Patricia Leedie and Leanne Oliver, in 1995 has been barred from making any parole bid for at least another eight years.

A 55-year-old man has been taken into custody after the death of a 53-year-old in a Sunshine Coast residence.

Queensland Premier Steven Miles says the major supermarkets have agreed to participate in the inquiry. It comes after he met with supermarket executives yesterday.