The proposed auction of the old Halifax police station has angered some community groups. ...

Back in 1945 when George Pemble caught a train across the Burdekin Bridge to go to a party, he never imagined his night would finish in the river with a steer pulling him to safety....

630 ABC North Queensland took a trip down memory lane today at the Townsville Museum to celebrate the launch of Northern Nostalgia. ...

Once "the most splendid house in Townsville", Duncragan House perched on top of Melton Hill in Townsville has been neglected for several years. But now James Cook University and Mission Australia have joined forces to restore the historic mansion as part of a work for the dole program. ...

Yellow 'i''s are beginning to pop up around Home Hill, and they're all pointing to one place: the Burdekin Gateway Information Centre....

Historian David Headon tells the 'real' story of Canberra's King O'Malley....

Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, formerly known as Kath Walker, from Stradbroke Island in South East Queensland, was one of Australia's best-known writers and leaders. What is not commonly remembered is her experience on a hijacked BOAC aircraft in 1974 when Palestinian terrorists ...

As part of their own cricketing tour to England as part of Australia's Indigenous IX team, two Brisbane players retraced the steps of Australia's very first international sporting team - the Aboriginal Cricket team of 1868. Their story has now been made into a documentary. ...

The remarkable life story of Reginald Fleming Johnston, one of the few foreigners to make his way into the inner court of the Qing Dynasty. 1n 1919, in the final turbulent years of British Colonial rule, after the 1911 revolution which saw the abdication of the monarchy, Johnston was appointed ...

Science writer Melvin Bolton from Yeppoon in Queensland tells us as a parable the tale of civilization which extends over three and a half million years to the present era of environmental destruction and waste....