When Sunshine Coast mother Deborah Butler found out she had stage four melanoma, she instantly thought of her young twins “I was devastated because I had two gorgeous six-year-old daughters and I didn’t want them to grow up without a mother,” Mrs Butler says. “They were too young to watch me die,...

Rangers are working to track down the person who mowed down a flock of shorebirds on Bribie Island. Department of Environment and Science (DES) officers found 11 dead and two injured crested terns on Ocean Beach, on the eastern side of the island, last Wednesday, May 5. It's though the birds were...

A significant spike in cases of the bacterial disease leptospirosis in Queensland has prompted a warning to practise good hygiene, particularly for farmers. Leptospirosis is a disease spread from animals, such as rats, mice, cattle, pigs and dogs, to humans usually through urine. So far this year, Queensland has recorded 78 cases...