Charlize Zmuda was swimming at Woorim Beach when she was fatally injured on Monday. 

A Queensland MP says claims of a major cost blowout on a long-awaited Sunshine Coast rail upgrade are in stark contrast to every briefing he has had on the project.

A man who killed his wife while in a drug-induced psychosis in a Sunshine Coast hotel room has been jailed for 12 years.

Campers at a popular Queensland campsite are being warned to stay off the beach following a "credible" crocodile sighting.

The Bureau of Meteorology is warning more than 200 millimetres could still fall on Townsville, Ingham and surrounds.

An outbreak of the world's deadliest bee parasite, varroa destructor mite, has been found less than 5 kilometres from the Queensland border — the closest detection to date.

The statue was found on the outskirts of Gympie in 1966 as a farmer ploughed his field and historians have been trying to work out the story of its past ever since.