The men were doing shifts at the above-ground Mount Isa Mines copper smelter in Queensland's remote northwest when a vent unexpectedly opened next to them and shot out scalding steam at 4.19pm on ...

who spend time at Mount Isa’s ‘dinner camp’; a congregation on the banks of the Leichhardt River. Congregation is apt, because the Catholic Church feeds the group and the Riverbed Action ...

The second spinifex fire is burning near Lake Julius, east of Mount Isa. The location of the two grass fires, which are burning through dry and combustible spinifex. Motorists travelling along the ...