Far North Queensland’s premier music festival kicks off tomorrow and runs all this weekend.
The Savannah in the Round festival at Mareeba features a massive bill of world-class artists, including…
Julatten folk, I reckon Christmas has come early if you live up the hill among the rainforest, with news that the Mossman to Mount Molloy Road repairs are pretty much complete… just in time for…
A desperate search for a young Dachshund named Bobby is being embraced by the community of Douglas Shire, and his owners and friends have made a plea to people to not give up hope.
The…
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Momentum is building at BeCHé Estate near Four Mile Beach, where the exclusive 33-lot coastal sanctuary is fast taking shape as a vibrant, living community.
After…
A Douglas Shire man has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for assaulting his former partner in a Port Douglas street.
Cairns District Court heard Bailey James Morrison, 24, chased his…
The state MP for the Douglas Shire region has joined a growing number of industry leaders and politicians to take aim at the Federal Government for planning to introduce working-visa changes that…
Police across Queensland have seized 558 non-compliant e-mobility devices and issued more than 2,400 traffic infringement notices riders in the first three months of statewide Operation Yankee…
Close to three years on from the devastation of Tropical Cyclone Jasper, the end is in sight for the restoration of the Mossman-Mount Molloy Road.
Both lanes on the busy highway up the range are…
The State Government is delivering stronger compliance and enforcement in north Queensland waters, and protecting Queensland’s fisheries for future generations, by investing in a new purpose-built…
Lovers of the former Bally Hooley steam railway will have one last chance to stroll down memory lane next week, with the former depot in Port Douglas holding a clearance and yard sale.
The Bally…
A 37-year-old Mareeba woman has been arrested after a 90-year-old woman’s purse was stolen and her debit card was used four times in one day.
Tablelands CIB detectives arrested the woman yesterday…
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Definitely, easiest way to consult with community ever. Would happily see a staff member paid to monitor, etc, like administrators do for other groups.
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A new audit of Douglas Shire Council by the Queensland Audit Office has found five “deficiencies” in the way staff have dealt with contracts and other business across the past year.
The QAO report…
September in Douglas Shire was filled with sports finals, school formals, falling trees and big events.
Newsport’s photographers were there to capture all the highs and lows of another…
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Just south of the Daintree River ferry, former sugarcane land at McDowell Swamp is being restored as a wildlife corridor through the Daintree Oxbow Project, creating a…
A pair of navy patrol boats are set to be based in Cairns, with the first to be relocated early next year.
The Cairns-based Royal Australian Navy Arafura Class Offshore Patrol Vessels will include…
Rare beachside land in Port Douglas just a stroll to Four Mile Beach is going under the hammer, with the final eight land parcels within BeCHe Estate attracting interest from around Australia.
It…
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With Douglas soon to commemorate 150 years as a Shire, local history is currently quite a hot topic. Bay Villas Resort, a much loved and revisited favourite holiday…
I had an economics teacher who once joked that he set the same exam questions year after year.
It was not a problem, he said, “Because I just change the answers.”
There is a lot of truth…
Quaid’s Road is “worth fighting for” even if a Ministerial response suggests big hurdles remain to get a win, says Member for Cook David Kempton.
Mr Kempton said he’d had numerous queries in…
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