Police say they have charged a 30-year-old man with two counts of accessory after the fact to murder. 

The 17-year-old's devastated mother says memories of time with her daughter help her smile when the world feels unbearable.

Queensland police are offering a $500,000 reward for information about the 1987 murder of Bundaberg taxi driver Bryan Hodgkinson, whose body was found on a rural road after a brutal assault.

Authorities spent a week trying to capture the animal after it was seen in the Maryborough area, about 200 kilometres away from its usual habitat.

A spate of fishermen presenting to a small regional Queensland hospital in agony with gaping wounds sparked an investigation into the spread of a deadly infection.

Rangers on the World Heritage-listed island off Queensland's coast urge visitors to secure their food, bait and rubbish from dingoes.

Hundreds of volunteers on Australia's east coast are braving the cold to catch whales migrating north to warmer waters for an annual whale census.