A local footy club, built on a reclaimed rubbish dump, has been kicked out of its home grounds for two years while a bayside ...

Far North Queensland is grappling with a dangerous surge in melioidosis cases - a deadly consequence of extreme wet weather ...

Health officials are searching for answers as to why there’s been a sharp increase of a deadly disease in the Far North, ...

Authorities are concerned about the death toll caused by a disease linked with heavy rain, with the number of cases rising in ...

A Far North public health service says four people have died from melioidosis since New Year's Day and an investigation is ...

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health reported ... making it particularly dangerous to Far Northerners cleaning or working in muddy conditions during severe weather events.

At the headwaters of the Amazon in Columbia, 200 villagers greeted them at the river's edge. Devan Long, 6-4, a former ...

Heavy rains are set to continue in central and north Queensland after near-record flooding that inundated towns and required ...

Fast-moving floodwaters rose Monday in northeastern Australia after forcing many to flee, blacking out homes, and sweeping ...