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1041. Colour of Carnivale captured in print
Date: 22-05-2025
Be prepared to get hit in the face with spectacular colour and all the latest local news about the Port Douglas Carnivale, including the huge Savannah Sounds Port Douglas program this weekend when…
With the Carnivale weekend fast approaching, the annual Go Troppo art event is underway at the iconic Sugar Wharf, with 30 talented local artists showcasing and selling their work until Sunday. …
The excitement is building and with just over 16 weeks to go until the fourth edition of the Port Douglas Gran Fondo Festival, which will be held from September 12 to 14, a new partnership with the…
Amy Sheppard has been touring a lot lately with her band of siblings, but she says she has always been able to find time for Port Douglas. Sheppard, the band, which has done more than 60 gigs…
BUSINESS FEATURE  A fully equipped walk-in walk-out salon in the heart of Mossman is now on the market - a rare opportunity for a hairdresser to step into an established business with loyal…
POLICE are calling for witnesses after reports of someone trespassing on a Chillagoe cattle station and shooting livestock. Detectives from Mareeba Rural and Stock Crime Squad said initial…
Indigenous art is taking a front seat across the Shire for this year’s Port Douglas Carnivale, with 16 Yalanji Arts banners being installed along Port Douglas Road and Front Street at Mossman. The…
1048. Election “demo job” is overstated
Date: 21-05-2025
There has been far too much talk of a “Labor landslide”, a “Liberal demolition”, and a “Green wipe-out”. In fact, fairly modest swings were hugely magnified and amplified by the electoral system…
An election poster of LNP candidate Jeremy Neal lies face up near the second roundabout leading into Port Douglas like some bizarre metaphor for his failed campaign. The discarded corflute is one…
Global travel company Intrepid Travel has announced it will be using Douglas Shire’s own luxury eco-friendly boutique lodge nestled in the Daintree Rainforest as a blueprint to help establish a new…
1051. Walking strong on Indigenous land
Date: 20-05-2025
In our community-focused Douglas Shire, coming together matters - and on Saturday, May 31, that spirit returns as Yalanji Run and Walk (RAW) enters its second year. Held at the Mossman Gorge…
Queensland Police have released vision of the SES responding to a task during the North Queensland floods earlier this year, where they assisted with tarping the roof of a home. The team’s…
Mossman Sharks have moved up to sixth on the ladder after back-to-back wins in the Far North Queensland Rugby League competition. Away to Edmonton Storm on Sunday, the Sharks held off a persistent…
1054. Anxious wait on Mossman Mill bid news
Date: 20-05-2025
Canegrowers in the Douglas Shire are keenly awaiting news if there has been a successful bidder for the Mossman Mill site, with local representative Evelyn Matthews saying industry leaders had met…
CARNIVALE SHOW REVIEW The high energy Maho Magic Bar is well worth a look - you never quite know what’s going on, but that’s all part of the fun. From the moment you are shuffled into an…
Photography fans will be pleased to know the annual Douglas Photographic Society exhibition has launched today and runs for a week. Club president Tracey Jones says she is excited to stage the…
Four teenagers have been arrested after a car was stolen from a Trinity Park home at about 3am on Friday morning. Two boys aged 15 and 16, a 15-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl were charged…
Douglas Shire students are being given a rare opportunity to take part in the prestigious Wakakirri National Story-Dance Festival, a nationwide program designed to boost student engagement and…
Supermarkets across Douglas Shire have been maintaining a two-carton limit on eggs - if you can find any there at all. A Newsport survey in Mossman and Port Douglas last week found all three…
Cane harvest preparations, for what is almost certainly the last local harvest, are well advanced and while it will be a much smaller showing by comparison to the glory days when Mossman Mill was in…