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3221. March News Bites from Ordinary Council Meeting
Date: 31-03-2022
Douglas Shire Council will champion a push to get a mail delivery service for residents living in Cooya Beach and Newell Beach. Council will ask Australia Post to do a survey at the beachside…
3222. $12.4m to improve safety on Mossman-Daintree Road
Date: 30-03-2022
Douglas Shire Council has welcomed the $12.4 million investment by the Department of Transport and Main Roads to improve road safety on the Mossman-Daintree Road. Starting early next month, the…
3223. Council leads drive for mail delivery to Cooya & Newell Beach
Date: 30-03-2022
By Howard Salkow and Jamie Jansen Douglas Shire Council councillors today voted unanimously at an open session of Council to get behind Cooya and Newell Beach in their quest to receive mail delivery…
3224. Is Douglas being stung at the bowser?
Date: 30-03-2022
Port Douglas and Mossman residents are currently paying similar if not just marginally just a few cents more at the bowser than those filling up in neighbouring Cairns. Over the past 15 days the…
3225. Council: Once-in-a-generation wave park gets the go-ahead
Date: 29-03-2022
Reported by Howard Salkow and Jamie Jansen A once-in-a-generation $317 million wave park to be situated on the outskirts of the Mowbray Valley and near the entrance to Trezise Road off the Captain…
3226. BREAKING...NorthBreak development passes Council vote
Date: 29-03-2022
The Douglas Shire can look forward to a $317 million wave park after Councillors voting unanimously this morning to endorse the town planners' recommendation to move ahead with the project. There…
3227. Yearly option could become common practice
Date: 29-03-2022
A leading Far North pharmaceutical expert believes having the option to receive a yearly COVID-19 booster will be as common as getting your recommended yearly flu shot. As is stands worldwide health…
3228. Fatal crash in Douglas Shire last night
Date: 29-03-2022
A man has died following a single vehicle traffic crash in Douglas last night. Initial investigations indicate approximately 9.50pm a car travelling along Cape Tribulation Road in Diwan has crashed…
3229. Sharks pile on the pain
Date: 28-03-2022
Mossman/Port Douglas has sent an ominous warning to rival clubs after smashing Yarrabah by 60 points to consign the home side to one of its heaviest losses in recent memory. In an astonishing…
3230. Artist Stephanie Elizabeth: “we were welcomed with open arms”
Date: 27-03-2022
Meet Stephanie Elizabeth Artwork from SEA Gallery. From the Port Douglas Sunday Markets to opening a gallery on Macrossan Street, in the latest video from Do It In Douglas, Steph takes us behind…
3231. Kerr supports national housing strategy
Date: 27-03-2022
Douglas Shire Mayor Michael Kerr said today that a national housing strategy needs to be implemented in light of the housing shortage in the state. This comes in light of 11 of the state’s peak…
3232. 20-year-old male lucky, survives single-vehicle highway accident
Date: 27-03-2022
A stable male patient in his 20s with minor injuries was transported to Cairns Hospital after a single-vehicle rollover on the Captain Cook Highway near Thala Beach Nature Reserve and the Oak Beach…
3233. COUNCIL: Town planners’ green light for wave park
Date: 27-03-2022
Douglas Shire Council’s town planners have advised the councillors to endorse their recommendation to move ahead with the $317 million wave park which is scheduled to be constructed on the outskirts…
3234. QAS Morning Round-up - Sunday, 27 March 2022
Date: 27-03-2022
Upper Caboolture – single-vehicle crash Paramedics, including Critical Care, are assessing a male patient at the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Caboolture River Road at 6.14am. Note: This…
3235. Hundreds of drivers being caught every day on their mobile phones
Date: 26-03-2022
In just under two weeks (25 January – 7 February), nearly 500 people were caught a day for not wearing a seatbelt or using their phone behind the wheel. Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey…
3236. Citizen Scientists snap coastal changes
Date: 26-03-2022
A COMMUNITY beach monitoring project will help scientists better understand and forecast how coastlines will change at five popular beaches in Douglas Shire. Coast Snap encourages residents and…
3237. Newsport’s Events Guide: tune into this weekend’s live gigs
Date: 25-03-2022
There’s live music to your heart’s desire this weekend – just sit back, grab a beer, and enjoy the tunes. Friday 25 March Sunset Ragga at The Central Hotel Justin Wellington and his band are the…
3238. QAS Morning Round-up - Friday, 25 March 2022
Date: 25-03-2022
Coolum Beach – single-vehicle crash Paramedics transported a male in his 20s to Nambour Hospital in a stable condition as a precaution after a single-vehicle crash down an embankment on Quanda Road…
3239. Salsa soil super juice
Date: 25-03-2022
Popular Port Douglas restaurant Salsa has not only found a way to get rid of their food waste but help our environment through their ‘Salsa’s Soil Super Juice’. The germ of an idea started in 2019…
3240. GBR best managed reef in world, says Entsch
Date: 24-03-2022
A research briefing titled “In hot water: Climate change, Marine heatwaves and coral bleaching”, is claiming that Australia’s reefs and marine ecosystems are at grave risk of mass bleachings and…