Liam McNally

Music, food and a festive mood are what make a Filipino Christmas Mass unique, according to organisers of a north Queensland Simbang Gabi celebration.

An American equity firm plans to purchase the jewel of the Whitsundays.

What's the difference between a big R2E2, a delicate Honey Gold, and an iconic Kensington Pride? Find out before biting into a mango this season. 

Gold prospectors are being locked out of some fossicking areas by a new law that allows mining companies with pending leases to say no.

Cheese was on track to be a champion when an accident cut his working dog trial career short. A year on from a leg amputation, the border collie is back in the yards and the winner's circle.   

Cheese the border collie was a champion trial dog.

But, when he was badly injured, owner Antony Mulder thought his competition days were behind him.

Story by Liam Mcnally with additional production by Josie Sargent.

It is one of the most recognisable global meat brands, but what defines Angus beef is changing and it means new opportunities for Australian farmers. 

After years of mostly green harvesting, cane farmers around Mackay are reaching for the drip torch this season to get rid of old plantings that could not be harvested last year.

Australian farmers are planting more chickpeas than ever before after India reduced its tariff on the product from 66% to 10%.

Australian growers are planting large crops of chickpeas encouraged by a stabilised trade relationship with India.

European researchers have discovered a process to turn wheat straw and oat husks into textiles, and they're hoping it could be a new source of sustainable clothing. 

The lifting of investment warnings on all Queensland fisheries has recreational anglers hoping new money will flow to innovation and improve sustainability.

More than 20 years after Western Australia mandated seatbelts on all school buses, the rest of the country still allows children to travel unrestrained, often at highway speeds. 

Farmers and their machines line up for a blessing from a priest ahead of the sugarcane harvest.

The owners of the last dairy farm in a Queensland region that once had about 60 say "big business rolls over the top of everything you do", as they prepare to shut down.

Fearing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, farmers are pleading with industry and home gardeners to help them limit the spread of a highly contagious tomato virus.