Ciara Jones is a multi-platform journalist and producer in the ABC Brisbane newsroom. Before joining the ABC in 2021, Ciara worked as a commercial TV news reporter and chief of staff in regional Queensland. She tweets at @CiaraEJones
Townsville's queer culture is less visible than other aspects, but that is changing as more people are creating the communities they once had to leave regional Queensland to find.
A Queensland town has sweated through 39 consecutive days above 36 degrees Celsius and has recorded its highest-ever November temperature.
Relatives of two siblings have expressed shock after one was found dead and the other critically injured in a Far North Queensland home.
Construction has begun on more than 100 new terrace homes and units in the Gold Coast, and the state government has stepped up to help make it happen.
The 250-home scheme joins substantial landholdings in NSW and Queensland, with the $3.4-billion collapse entering a new phase...
Property & Real Estate
The mining and agriculture magnate and majority owner of the famed Kidman portfolio is reshaping her vast holdings to focus on higher-value beef.
Tim Callanan has worked as a reporter and presenter for ABC Radio and TV since 1998. He began his career in Queensland as a radio producer and presenter. Tim worked for Sky News UK in London from 2003 to 2008. He has worked in the Melbourne newsroom since 2008 as a reporter, radio newsreader and dig...
Red witchweed was first discovered in Habana in 2013 and remains the only known infestation in the country.
More than 80,000 households were left without power after south-east Queensland thunderstorms downed more than 400 powerlines.
Building & Construction
The nation's peak body for major builders has thrown its weight behind recommendations for a strict new Queensland construction code,
Stephen Clarke is a journalist with ABC News in Brisbane and Ipswich. He was previously a senior reporter at the National Indigenous Radio Service.
Drama enrolments in Queensland high schools have plummeted so precipitously that 42 fewer schools offered the senior subjects this year compared to before ATAR started.
A computer analyst told the jury Robert Crawford's phone was unlocked five times between 1:09am and 3:20am on the night his wife died.
Could you be the long-lost owner of a 16m by 60cm strip of land in south-east Queensland, whose last known owner was August Thorsborne, a 19th-century businessman who died more than 100 years ago? The Department of Transport and Main Roads needs to know.
Queensland researchers are observing how fire spreads through ceiling compartments to aid the development of safer timber buildings.
A mountain retreat made famous by the hit TV show Grand Designs Australia is now for sale, complete with seven acres of lush private land.
A new Queensland company has purchased its fourth Bowen Basin coal mine, employing 275 workers to reopen a coalmine.