Hervey Bay and the nearby island K'gari have copped more than 230 millimetres of rain in six hours, triggering flash flooding across the region.

Witnesses say it was heartbreaking to see elderly people pulled from their homes as floodwater lapped at their doorstep on Sunday.

Devastated home and business owners are dealing with the aftermath of the worst flooding to hit Hervey Bay in decades.

Cases of Melioidosis, a bacterial infection found in tropical climates that is sometimes referred to as a 'mudbug', have sharply risen in Australia since the start of this year.Queensland Health recorded 111 melioidosis cases as of March 2,

As a sudden rain bomb smashed through Hervey Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning, many residents were left wondering what had happened – and why they didn’t have more notice of what was to come.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred is dumping heavy rain across south-east Queensland as hundreds of thousands remain without power.

More than 1400 Hervey Bay homes could be without power for days after the city was hit with a wall of water on Sunday that inundated 1600 properties and left countless residents stranded and displaced.

Here is a list of matters listed at Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Today's court listings are published as part of News Corporation's commitment to public interest journalism and are compiled from information made publicly available by the courts in each State and territory.

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.

Prisoners at Maryborough Correctional Centre have been kept bust filling sandbags ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Albert in case of flooding.

Tropical cyclone Alfred is moving away from the Queensland coast, but meterologists predict it will turn back towards Brisbane from Tuesday. It comes amid severe weather warnings for the state’s south, as well as K’gari, and northeast NSW, as high tides, damaging surf, and gale force winds are forecast.

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared an insurance catastrophe for southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales following the impact of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.