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Townsville

November 2024

  • Troy Thompson

    Controversial Townsville mayor Troy Thompson suspended for 12 months

  • Police tape

    Homicide investigation launched after body of woman found in Townsville home

October 2024

  • Screenshot of Townsville mayor Troy Thompson wearing a white shirt

    Controversial Queensland mayor Troy Thompson to challenge government moves to oust him from office

    Townsville mayor says he will fight against removal as investigation into his military service record continues

May 2024

  • Picture of Troy Thompson taken from his Troy Thompson for Mayor Facebook page

    Troy Thompson refuses to resign as Townsville mayor over false military service claims

  • Troy Thompson

    Townsville mayor Troy Thompson’s military service claims under investigation by powerful corruption watchdog

April 2024

  • A man wearing black sunglasses

    Townsville mayor Troy Thompson’s military service claims under investigation by watchdog

  • Composite image of a 5G mobile phone tower, wind turbines, a vapour trail and voters at polling booths with a Queensland flag overlaid

    My Place groups worry about 5G and chemtrails. Some are also taking an interest in Queensland’s council elections

March 2024

  • The 3.9-metre saltwater crocodile captured in north Queensland – video

  • Picture of Troy Thompson taken from his Troy Thompson for Mayor Facebook page

    Backed by 5G truthers, exiled from One Nation, banned from parliament – now Troy Thompson looks set to be Townsville’s mayor

December 2023

  • Forecast map showing Tropical Cyclone Jasper.

    Warnings for 500mm rain, heavy winds as cyclone approaching Queensland expected to become more severe

  • Whitsundays beach

    Tropical cyclone gradually intensifying, with region between Cooktown and Mackay at ‘highest risk’

June 2023

  • Written Off
    Written off: how Queensland's youth justice system is turbocharging reoffending rates – video

    Whistleblowers, judges and youth workers say children are leaving detention scarred, angry and more likely to commit further crime

April 2023

  • View of Townsville toward the sea

    The rural network
    Townsville pushes build-to-rent scheme in bid to address rental crisis

    Experts say there’s little evidence that a privately-owned single landlord development would increase housing affordability

February 2023

  • Hands of a boy holding prison bars.

    Human Rights Act could be critical in divisive Queensland youth bail case

    Palaszczuk government’s 2019 laws to be weighed against underlying principles of human rights

January 2023

  • Ambulance sign in Brisbane, Friday, August 12, 2022. (AAP Image/Russell Freeman) NO ARCHIVING

    ‘Totally survivable medical condition’: parents face manslaughter charge over child’s death in Townsville

    Police allege parents failed to provide care for three-year-old girl’s treatable medical condition

December 2022

  • A child holds bars

    The rural network
    Townsville youth crime needs community-led fix rather than new detention centre, expert says

    Indigenous health service chief says a plan to build new facility might ‘score brownie points’ with voters but won’t solve problem

July 2021

  • Queensland ambulance badge

    ‘Tragic on many levels’: Queensland ambulance service apologises after death of Indigenous man

    Noomba, 39, died in 2018 after being detained outside his Townsville home by police with paramedics in attendance

May 2021

  • Generic image of police tape

    Townsville woman dies after being stabbed in neck with hunting knife

    Police found the 29-year-old on the footpath outside her home severely injured but she later died in hospital

April 2021

  • The port of Townsville

    Townsville’s ‘road to Paris’ moment: the slow greening of an Adani stronghold

    After years of a ‘coal-first’ mentality, the Queensland town is starting to see a future for itself as a green-energy powerhouse

March 2021

  • Danny Griffiths catches a wave at Pedra Branca in Tasmania in 2017 just before he lost his surfboard, and the surfboard, covered in barnacles, found in 2021 by two brothers near Townsville in north Queensland, more than 2,700km away

    Stoked! Surfboard lost in Tasmania turns up 2,700km away in Queensland

    Board belonging to big wave surfer Danny Griffiths believed to have made the journey via New Zealand
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