Queensland health authorities are on high alert after a mutant, super-spreading strain of COVID-19 was found in Australia.

The cost of private health insurance is about to go up for the second time in six months.

Just weeks after getting up off the canvas when the Queensland border reopened following eight months of devastation, the $28bn a year tourism industry is back on the ropes, following the latest hard border closure.

And women’s sportswear brand Lorna Jane is being sued by the competition regulator for allegedly making false claims that its activewear could stop and eliminate the spread of COVID-19.

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Queensland businesses have been given 72 hours to swap paper-based check ins with QR codes after authorities discovered crucial contact details customers are required to leave when checking-in were illegible.

A crackdown on dodgy foreign investors secretly buying up Australian houses will be boosted by a public tip-off line to help catch crooks.  

We’re being warned to take extra care on our roads, to avoid a horror festive season which has been forecast by Queensland’s top experts.

Power prices are set to plunge across southeast Queensland over the next two years, with an influx of solar and wind generation- saving customers hundreds of dollars.

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Border passes have been reintroduced and hundreds of thousands of Queenslanders are being urged to get tested for coronavirus as an unfolding COVID crisis threatens to wreck Christmas.

Christmas drinks at a local pub ended in tragedy for a young father of two who tried to break-up an argument at a Far North Queensland taxi rank.

A partygoer has died at one of Queensland’s first music festivals since COVID. The man in his 30’s, died from a suspected drug overdose at the Elements dance music festival.

Thousands of school leavers have received their ATAR results, with 30 Queensland students receiving a perfect ATAR score of 99.95.

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Queensland could slam the border shut to Sydney’s Northern Beaches within days as the latest coronavirus cluster in the Harbour City threatens to spiral out of control.

Police have shot and killed a young radicalised ISIS supporter after he allegedly screamed “Allahu Akbar” at officers before lunging at them with a knife.

A Southern Downs farmer has tragically died after desperately trying to save his livestock as a wall of water bore down on his drought-ravaged property.

100 Australian medical experts across various fields will be specially trained to treat mental health patients with party drugs such as MDMA and magic mushrooms.

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Queensland’s economy faces a “potentially devastating” fallout from China’s trade war, which threatens 8 per cent of the state’s annual production.

A renowned Australian immunologist is encouraging mandatory vaccines for employees most at risk of COVID19.

Queensland’s health workers are stressed and burnt out, with two in five in the state’s largest hospital saying their health has suffered in the past year working through the COVID pandemic.

Australian's are being encouraged to avoid using aerosol sunscreens, after research found nine popular sun protection products weren't guarding users against sunburn because to get the right UV protection they need longer to apply.

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Bribie Island is hanging on by its tip, literally, after a week of cyclonic weather accelerated a decade-long erosion problem.

Workers could be forced to have a COVID-19 vaccine or risk losing their jobs, with major employers not ruling out a ‘no jab, no pay’ policy when the vaccine becomes available next year.  

Aspiring teachers will have to sit a tough new English and Maths test before they enrol in a teaching degree at university.

1.3 million Australians forced to work from home during the pandemic do not want to return to the office.  

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A Trans-Tasman travel bubble could be in place in the first few months of next year with New Zealand cabinet agreeing “in principle” to allow quarantine-free travel from Australia in 2021.

Taxpayers have been slugged the accident excess for two Queensland politicians who crashed their private cars, and it’s all by the book.

The Palaszczuk Government has already broken an election promise, pushing back a February deadline to introduce voluntary assisted dying laws to the parliament.

Queensland’s wild weather has upended many interstate tourists long-awaited holiday plans in the Sunshine State.

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Residents from Bundaberg to Northern New South Wales have been warned to brace for more heavy rainfall, damaging winds, the possibility of flash flooding and dangerous surf conditions until Monday night.

It’s been revealed the State Government’s Job Finder Portal to help find unemployed Queenslanders work during the pandemic found just 76 people a job, but cost taxpayers $431,000 thousand dollars.

Hopeful Queensland Police Service recruits will have to fork out over $300 just to apply to join the academy.

Queensland is on track for a $15 billion economic revival. Eased restrictions combined with Christmas has seen tourism and spending for the Sunshine State skyrocket.

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High-profile Australians, including former Prime Ministers, are putting their hands up to get the vaccine against COVID-19 as soon as the first approved jabs arrive on our shores.

Australia has suffered its worst year of shark attacks in nearly a century. There have been eight fatalities so far in 2020- the most number of deaths since 1929.

Brisbane house prices have hit an all-time record high, despite a global pandemic and the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Queenslanders can indulge in their favourite seafood this Christmas for up to half the price. Seafood lovers can snap up a bargain on delicacies such as Lobster as suppliers look to move excess stock previously destined for the export market.

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Undercover cameras catching Queensland motorists illegally using their mobile phones, are set to create a bumper fine haul for the state government equivalent to around four months of land tax revenue.

A comprehensive review of Queensland’s legal justice system will focus on justice for women who are victims of violence.

Mandatory testing of hotel quarantine workers has yet to be implemented in Queensland, despite a promise last month to introduce a weekly testing scheme.  

South East Queensland is bracing for a wet and wild weekend of weather with up to 200mm of rain possible.

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