Christopher Testa

The judge presiding over the trial of Rajwinder Singh, accused of the 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley, is summing up the case before the jury goes out to deliberate.

Rajwinder Singh, 41, is accused of the 24-year-old's 2018 murder. A trial in the Supreme Court in Cairns is entering its final stages.

Former nurse Rajwinder Singh has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley in Far North Queensland in October 2018.

The jury in the former Innisfail nurse's murder trial has heard more than three weeks of evidence.

Citizen science and AI have never been more important to the environment after White House cuts to USAID are felt beneath the waves, a new report says.

The former nurse accused of the 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley was 3.7 billion times more likely than not to have contributed to a DNA sample found on a stick where she was buried, his trial has heard.

The jury has been played a a covert recording of a conversation Rajwinder Singh had with an undercover officer in a police station cell in 2023.

The Supreme Court in Cairns has heard that Rajwinder Singh, who is accused of the 24-year-old's 2018 murder, first came to the attention of police because of his blue car, which they later searched.

A court has heard police asked locals to hand over knives for forensic examination as part of the investigation into the alleged murder of Toyah Cordingley in Far North Queensland.

The sister of the man accused of murdering Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley has told a court she has spoken to her brother "two or three times a week" since his extradition from India.

Mr Singh told his wife he was "going somewhere" when he left home for the last time on the day Ms Cordingley's body was found, a court has heard.

Former Innisfail nurse Rajwinder Singh, 41, is standing trial over the 24-year-old's 2018 murder.

A jury trial of former Innisfail nurse Rajwinder Singh, who is charged with the Far North Queensland woman's 2018 murder, has heard details about Ms Cordingley's phone data from the afternoon she disappeared.

Former Innisfail nurse Rajwinder Singh is charged with the 24-year-old's 2018 death in Far North Queensland. The jury has today been shown photos of her partner Marco Heidenreich's activities on the afternoon she died.

Toyah Cordingley's father has told a jury he paused to rest under a tree during the search for his daughter when he noticed an "odd-shaped mound" at his feet.

Witnesses in the trial of Rajwinder Singh, who is accused of murdering Far North Queensland woman Toyah Cordingley, have begun being questioned as the trial concludes its second day.

Toyah Cordingley was "doing something that she would always do", exercising along a secluded Far North Queensland beach when she was violently killed seven years ago, a court in Cairns has been told.

Many of us dream of an island get away from work – but for Don and Lee Cameron, their work is taking care of a dream tropical island.

They are the new live in caretakers of Low Isles, a coral kay in tropical North Queensland.

Story by Chris Testa and Josie Sargent.

Life as the caretaker of a tropical island includes gardening and plenty of birdwatching, but the job is not all glamorous.

Two new frog species and a banded-patterned gecko are believed to have sheltered among the boulders of Dauan, in the Torres Strait, for millions of years.

The 14-year-old is in a critical but stable condition after emergency surgery at Townsville University Hospital.

Danny Morseu's conviction has been wiped but he says he will struggle to find a job, a home, and a source of income after Queensland's Director of Public Prosecutions decided not to pursue a retrial.

Police and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau are investigating after the helicopter and body of the 27-year-old pilot were found this morning.

Cairns residents are urged to cut down on their water use as multiple infrastructure failures put the city at risk of water shortfalls heading into summer.

Hartwell Champagne's sister and brother are desperate to know what happened to the experienced US mariner whose sailboat was found stuck on a remote Queensland beach without him.