Almost three months after the missing Roma woman's body was found in bushland and five months after she went missing, a coroner will receive details of the investigation.

The effect of the NSW "bomb cyclone" is being felt in parts of the Sunshine State.

Searchers believe they have found the body of a 74-year-old man missing since last week in a dam in Queensland’s South Burnett region.

Nationals leader David Littleproud wants "timely and to standard" mobile service upgrades to be a legal requirement for Telstra after regional Queensland customers lost access to calls, internet, ATMs and EFTPOS for a fortnight.

Endurance athlete Phil Gore has broken the Backyard Ultra world record with a 797-kilometre run at Dead Cow Gully in Queensland.

Not long after 21-year-old Jarib Branfield-Bradshaw started work as a youth officer in Cunnamulla he saw potential in a disused council building. Now it's a thriving hub for the town's young people.

Most "fresh" food travels thousands of kilometres to be sorted, divvied up and, in some cases, sent back to the place it came from — at huge cost to farmers and shoppers. But some new options are starting to sprout.