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The Queensland government has doubled its First Home Owner Grant to $30,000 but the incentive won't suit everyone. Here's what you you need to know.

A volunteer on a sleepbus dedicated to vulnerable Sunshine Coast women and children says a night of rest can help people make better decisions.

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

Lachlan Hughes was 36 and expecting his third child when he suddenly died in 2018. His loved ones were devastated, but they found a way to ensure his passion for regenerative farming would never be forgotten.

Unlike on the Gold Coast, researchers say there is little knowledge of how many bull sharks are in the region's canals and waterways, which are often lined with multi-million dollar properties.

Nine Queensland infrastructure projects have been cancelled after a budget blowout on Commonwealth spending. One resident whose property was resumed says he may have lost his beloved home for nothing.

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.

A Queensland jury has been told the father of a woman allegedly raped by a fellow lifesaver confronted the man at his house in an attempt to incite a confession. 

They started out wild, feral and fearful of humans. Now these brumbies are showing just how loyal and capable they can be when given the chance.

At a work conference, in a room filled with hundreds of people, a conversation with a Gooreng Gooreng elder led Maria Suarez to a sister she never knew she had.

Jurors in the murder trial of a man who fatally bashed a homeless person in Tweed Heads hear the chilling and bizarre interviews he gave to police after his arrest.

The man who has overseen large population growth in the Sunshine Coast says he is stepping away to put his family and personal interests first.

Paramedics say it's incredible no one was hurt after two people were winched from a life raft after a light plane crash off the Sunshine Coast.

While "some heat" could leave the market after the Reserve Bank lifted interest rates this week, for now, house prices have surpassed even the post-COVID records of early 2022.

Detectives are investigating an incident on Queensland's Sunshine Coast last night where a man allegedly deliberately struck a pedestrian in a car park on Currie Street in Nambour.

Queensland graziers are being urged to sell their cattle as the state's bushfire emergency exacerbates an already dire national feed shortage.

The first-generation farmers made an ambitious 100-year plan to repair land stripped of vegetation with tree plantings and chemical-free regenerative practices.

The local environmental group has described the spill as a "pollution event of an industrial scale".

Plastic beads have washed onto Sunshine Coast beaches days into turtle nesting season.

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.

Police believe several recent bushfires that threatened homes and residents in Queensland were started on purpose. Motivations for arson can vary but will be key to investigations.

More than 300 people were forced to evacuate when a huge fire ripped through dozens of homes in the southern Queensland community of Tara. Now the residents are coming to grips with the devastation while looking to the future. 

Restoration work on a severely eroded Queensland river is stopping tens of thousands of tonnes of sediment from smothering the Great Barrier Reef.

Authorities give out more than $332 million in fines to speeding drivers in 2022-23 — up 35.7 per cent from the year before — amid heftier penalties.

Seeking a path from from jail cells to inner peace, inmates  — many struggling with PTSD — are finding solace in yoga.