From thriving businesses to "ghost towns", mainland and K'gari (Fraser Island) tourism — worth $900 million to the local ...

Residents woke up to extraordinary flash flooding after the city copped almost two months of rain in six hours.

Hervey Bay has been smashed by a rain bomb with flash flooding cutting dozens of roads and threatening homes while a woman is trapped in her car in rising waters near the airport.

A lot of water has washed its shores since then. Today paradise goes by the name of Fraser Island, renamed by newcomers after a Scottish sea captain and his wife were famously marooned here among ...