A RACQ Lifeflight Rescue helicopter conducts a rescue mission of a father and his son in remote northwest Queensland SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 10-year old boy and his father were rescued by helicopter from ...

What would Queensland's "Stack City" be without its smoking stack? By 2030, the outback city of Mount Isa will find out. The famous candy-cane-striped copper smelter, or stack, gave the mining town of ...

Two people from Victoria are rescued after climbing through the window of their car, which was washed away by floodwaters in ...

Cloncurry is facing a massive clean-up, including repairs to its airport runway, after a monsoon system dumped more than ...

Running from April 24 to May 9, the self-drive festival will chart a brand-new route through nine towns from Charleville to Mount Isa, combining live music with road trip adventure. The 2026 program ...

A renewed inquest into the horrific triple murder of three people in the Queensland outback is set to probe a mysterious LandCruiser sighting in the days before greyhound trainers made a grim ...

A plea for lovelorn female "ugly ducklings" to move to a remote Australian mining town to reverse a shortage of eligible women has landed the local mayor in hot water. Mount Isa Mayor John Molony was ...

Facebook page Sht Towns of Australia made a post in early September, poking fun at the town’s “oppressive” heat, the Mount Isa copper smelter, and political figures. “While they’re not busily ...