Kirra Grimes

The 53-year-old was charged after officers attended his unit in March amid concerns for his welfare.

Police allege the plaques were taken from gravestones at Sunshine Coast cemeteries in early November and sold to second-hand metal dealers with the names removed.

Peter O'Neill is a man who has well and truly gone the distance, competing in the world's largest Olympic-distance triathlon every year since 1983.

Some parts of Queensland have run out of water, and landholders are paying a heavy price as paddocks become parched.

After a rugged week, Queensland is facing up to a "generational fire season" the state hasn't experienced since the 1950s, according to the rural fire brigade chief.

After an eight-day District Court trial, the jury finds a Sunshine Coast woman guilty of dangerous driving causing the deaths of two young men working on a broken-down bus.

The driver of a car that struck and killed two men on the Sunshine Coast had multiple legal prescription drugs in her system when she got behind the wheel, a court has heard.

Witnesses have told a Sunshine Coast court what they saw on the day a crash killed two young mechanics.