THE Coal Creek Literary Festival will be running a number of writing competitions this year as part of the festival on Sunday, October 8.

“IF we treat her as a corpse, of course she will die.

BASS Coast Specialist School was presented with 15 new iPads recently.

THE Bass Coast Agricultural Show is facing an uncertain future.

Journalists are left to peer over the fence and deploy drones as the World Surf League conducted a "test event" at Kelly Slater's multi-million dollar wave pool.

A 27-year-old Townsville woman who died in a scooter crash in Bali is remembered as a "determined, gentle spirit".

The Aged Care Complaints Commissioner welcomes a 20 per cent increase in complaints, saying it means more people now know about the service.

In Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw, sellers at a morning market give their opinions of Aung San Suu Kyi's speech in which she condemned all human rights violations and said anyone responsible for abuses in troubled Rakhine State woul