The Reef Authority is celebrating the work of Reef Traditional Owners who have been actively protecting and monitoring their Sea Country for thousands of years and are now participating in one of…
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Since opening its doors on Grant Street in July 2025, Cosmos Cocktail Lounge has been making waves in Port Douglas with a nightlife experience that’s anything but ordinary,…
Centacare FNQ has marked a decade of helping Far North Queensland families send their children back to school with dignity and confidence, officially launching the 2026 School Savvy season on…
Close to 70 luxury units have been proposed for the long-vacant “Redbacks” site at Wonga Beach as part of a “world class luxury and service resort complex”.
A development application has been…
Emergency warnings have been downgraded for the Port Douglas to Cairns region as a tropical low off the coast continues to track southward towards the Townsville-Bowen region.
Cruise operators,…
Port Douglas’s Four Mile Beach and Mossman Gorge have been closed to the public as a slow-moving tropical low gradually works its way towards the Far North Queensland coast.
The likelihood of the…
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Alister Pike
Darwinism at work.....
Nik Vivien
He's still waiting for his audition for the King Gee commercial.
Corey Seaton
Sorry, but no sympathy for these fools!…
About 40 new homes will be built on the former $300m luxury Fairmont Resort site on Port Douglas Road if plans submitted to Douglas Shire Council late last month are approved for a new estate called…
Rajwinder Singh has filed an appeal against his conviction for the murder of Toyah Cordingley at Wangetti Beach.
Former Innisfail nurse Singh was convicted by a jury of 12 people last month in the…
There is a 45 per cent chance of a monsoonal low currently sitting north of Willis Island off the coast of Port Douglas turning into a cyclone by Friday night, according to the Bureau of…
Newsport has kicked 2026 off with a bang, sharing contributor stories and images including crazy flooded creek crossing attempts, crocs on the move, located locomotives, drowned cars and sunken…
Mareeba Shire Council has rectified a stinky issue after a sinkhole damage its sewage pump station causing wastewater to flow into the Barron River.
A sinkhole which opened up damaged the sewerage…
Mossman’s Goodstart childcare centre will remain closed until at least February despite assurances from the owners in November that it would be reopening at the start of this week.
A Goodstart…
Heartless thieves have stolen a pair of large shade sails from a Wonga Beach playground at the peak of the wet-season-build-up heat.
Both sails were cut down from the Wonga Beach Community Park…
Back in the olden days it seems everything was cheaper. Somehow in the late 80s I could afford to pay the bank 17% interest! That figure would bankrupt the nation these days.
It seems that each…
Two international campaigns celebrating the Great Barrier Reef have earned Tourism Tropical North Queensland the Initiative of the Year in the global Regenerative Travel Impact Awards 2025.
The…
End of year celebrations, beautiful scenery and weather events dominated our December photo galleries, with Newsport photographers out across the district to capture all the people and places that…
Cooktown Police are seeking to find the owner of a number of items located in the Lakefield National Park in October.
A duffle bag was located on Lakefield Road and handed to police. The bag…
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This month, Port Douglas food lovers have a rare chance to experience a taste of Berowra Waters Inn as head chef Jack Brown joins Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort for two…
Detectives from the Mareeba Rural and Stock Crime Squad have appealed to rural communities across their vast Far North patch to stay alert and provide assistance as they work to curb livestock theft…
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