A boy is now in a stable condition after being pulled unresponsive from a pool at the Whistundays

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The state government's given the go-ahead to Glencore's Hail Creek coal mine expansion south-west of Mackay.

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Plus - the BOM is keeping a close eye on a tropical low due to form in the Coral Sea early next week

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Plus - a Bowen man's accused of blowing more than four times the limit

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Plus - Cowboys centre Braiden Burns is off to the NRL judiciary tonight to fight a two match ban

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North Queensland is on Flood watch as that tropical low further North starts filling our gauges.

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Police are investigating a fire that destroyed two stores at the Andergrove shopping village at the weekend.

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Youth offenders convicted of serious crimes including conspiring to murder, assisting suicide and assault occasioning bodily harm will be sentenced as adults - under the third instalment of the government's Adult crime, Adult time laws.

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