Lucy Robinson

Hearing "slip, slop, slap" and "no hat, no play" in childhood hasn't kept today's teens and young adults out of the sun. But there is hope social media campaigns can change attitudes about tanning.

The quarantine camp near Toowoomba is finally ready for its first guests — a small group of unvaccinated international travellers who have flown into Brisbane.

Police are treating the death of a 61-year-old woman at Crows Nest, north of Toowoomba, as suspicious.

Some blame COVID panic buying, others the supply chain. Either way, Queensland supermarket shelves are empty again.

Leaders in Queensland's Aboriginal community of Cherbourg are concerned overcrowding in residential homes will contribute to the spread of COVID-19, where nearly 10 per cent of the population has tested positive to the virus.

Most mothers are not offered the option to donate their breastmilk after losing a baby, despite research showing it can assist the grieving process.

Mine owners pledge to meet requirements for final approval but opponents say the expansion fails to address groundwater concerns, among other "deficiencies".

After years of drought, a mouse plague and near-biblical deluges, Australia's wettest November has many wondering what's next for parts of the country already saturated.

The practice of sharing breastmilk is controversial in medical circles, but some mothers and experts are fighting to remove the "stigma" as its popularity grows.

A Goondiwindi pharmacist says there's been a "surge" of vaccine-hesitant people coming forward to get COVID jabs after three locally acquired cases were detected in the town.

The border community of Goondiwindi is on high alert, despite having the state's highest COVID vaccination rate, after recording three cases of community transmission. 

Leaders in the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg are cautiously optimistic a door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination campaign will help it avoid another lockdown.

After drought, bushfire and COVID-19 restrictions, Scenic Rim tourist operators are preparing for an influx of visitors after the region makes the Lonely Planet's hottest destinations to visit in 2022 list.

While some Queensland regions are set to miss their COVID-19 vaccination targets, Goondiwindi is leading the state with almost 80 per cent of people fully vaccinated.

International students will be the first to use the quarantine facility at Wellcamp when they are allowed to return to Queensland to study next year, the government has announced. 

Five female jockeys have made history by winning all seven races on the card at a single meet in Toowoomba.

Leaders in the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg have made a desperate plea for locals to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the town is facing its "last chance" to avoid a potential lockdown.

The BOM says there are "clear signs" that a tornado formed in a Darling Downs town this morning as Queensland's south-east was lashed by a raging storm.

Queensland scientists have helped confirm the discovery of an "extremely unusual" new planet, with temperatures above 2000 degrees,  aluminium rain, and a rare orbit. 

The controversial quarantine facility just outside Toowoomba is beginning to take shape, but will it be needed with home quarantine trials to begin in Queensland next week? 

Experts say a boom in the population of Queensland's feral pigs is driving them into more densely populated areas.

Fire and sleet on a wild day of weather that saw Queensland record its coldest September day in half a decade.

Virtually everyone in Cherbourg has lost a loved one to suicide. Local leaders are doing their best, but they say without better, more tailored services, the tragedies are bound to continue.

Experts have significant concerns about the plague exploding again with mouse numbers reported in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and WA.

Arabella's mum was ready to burst into tears as guest after guest cancelled until there were none. But then it turned out that a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet.