Tim Little is a reporter working with ABC's North West Queensland team in Mount Isa. Before moving west Tim worked as a reporter in Cairns and has a background in marine science.
Cave divers abseil into the abyss searching for signs of Australia's largest carnivorous bat, to save it from going locally extinct in outback Queensland.
A reggae-rock outfit from Queensland's Gulf Country hopes to take its music "worldwide" after opening for one of Australia's biggest acts.
A Gulf of Carpentaria Mayor is calling for a newly repaired airstrip to be relocated to avoid future disasters.
Topic: Rural and Remote Communities
Administrators are appointed to a failed Indigenous housing group and the regular starts an investigation, but for one terminally ill grandmother about to lose her home, the action comes "too late".
A chance and "extremely rare" discovery in an outback fossil pit has uncovered an unknown bird species from more than a hundred million years ago.
Properties owned by an Aboriginal housing corporation caught up in an unpaid-rates saga that left dozens of Mount Isa residents facing an uncertain future are sold.
A major tourist attraction in outback Queensland has been handed back to its traditional owners under a landmark agreement described as a long-awaited "homecoming".
A major outback transport company sidelined over compliance and safety issues is back on the road after the peak heavy vehicle regulator said it had agreed to address its concerns.
Remote grocery prices could surge and more than 70 jobs are at risk after a major Gulf freight company was grounded for compliance and safety issues.
Parents are calling for a long-term solution after a remote school bus service was axed, leaving children without a way to get to school.
Topic: Rural and Remote Communities
The 151 workers who have died at the Mount Isa Mines will finally be honoured after residents have advocated for a memorial for almost 30 years.
Topic: Mining Accidents and Incidents
Police have charged a man in North West Queensland after a shot was allegedly fired at a passing vehicle.
An outback town says it has the land and space for AI infrastructure, but without a connection to the national electricity grid, investment remains on hold.
The first partnership of its kind in Australia is bringing the Royal Flying Doctor Service to a remote Aboriginal Gulf island, providing primary care to in-need residents.
Topic: Rural and Remote Communities
For decades, families of Mount Isa miners killed on the job have waited for a lasting tribute, but after years of campaigning, some fear their loved ones will be forgotten.
Topic: Mining Accidents and Incidents
A Queensland mayor says he won't be swimming at a certain waterhole until authorities determine what caused a dog to die in the area.
Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe joins a fight to stop Indigenous homes being sold in Queensland due to unpaid rates.
Ryowa Group has received a loan for its outback Queensland Phosphate Hill asset as the federal and state governments move to ramp up domestic fertiliser production capability.
A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped fill in a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary history.
Years after losing his sister to a preventable disease, a grieving Gulf of Carpentaria man is demanding urgent action to address a disease found almost exclusively in remote, Indigenous communities.
Giant cargo airships based in outback Queensland are being pitched as a freight solution for remote Australia, but questions remain about how the project will go ahead.
Cases of diphtheria could continue to rise as the number of people affected reaches 220 across the country — the biggest outbreak of the disease since national records began in 1991.
Widespread flooding in north-west Queensland killed more than 90,000 head of livestock this year, but farmers will have to go it alone if they want to rebuild.
Tenants in some Mount Isa homes have endured years without repairs, hot water or proper leases and now one corporation's failures could leave them homeless.
For more than a century, outback students have had to leave home to finish school. Now, a remote Queensland school is changing that.
