The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will provide A$8 million ($5 million) to technology firm Licella for a study ...

The heavy rain and flooding that caused so much damage in north Queensland has now cleared, but in its wake stirs a deadly ...

The British company Oxitec, in partnership with Australia's CSIRO, has announced plans to release genetically modified (GM) ...

Queensland, in northeastern Australia, experienced heavy flooding after storms dumped more than 1.5 metres (59 inches) of ...

A rare soil-borne disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in northern Queensland, amid a surge in cases since the start of ...

A highly unpredictable tropical cyclone is set to “intensify” to a category three system on Wednesday night, as it creeps closer toward central and southern Queensland.

The deaths of 12 people in north Queensland in a “record breaking” outbreak of a rare bacterial disease has medical ...

Seven people have now died from melioidosis in flood-ravaged north Queensland this year. Dozens of cases have been reported ...

A judge has jailed 14 members of a fringe Australian religious group over the "slow and painful" death of an eight-year-old ...

Hundreds of people were displaced and thousands more impacted, especially in working-class areas, as the result of record ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is intensifying as it continues to travel through the Coral Sea after forming on Sunday, but updated ...

One of the few remaining Queensland councils to offer fluoridated water has voted to stop adding the tooth-strengthening ...