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The two top Port Douglas Muddies cricket teams have qualified for home finals after finishing top and second in their respective leagues. The Muddies 2nd Grade team finished more than two wins…
There were 220 men who went to World War I with strong connections to Douglas Shire, a new study has revealed. These included remarkable Diggers such as Jack Crees, who signed the Kitchener of…
In Mossman and the greater Cairns region, the Skills to Enable People and Communities (STEPS) program helps people gain jobs through skills training and education, with local newspapers like…
Known as the ‘skin queens’ of Port Douglas, Tik White and Joyce Coyle, two passionate women in business, have built a thriving enterprise together, empowering and uplifting their clients along the…
The second week of the Toyah Cordingley murder trial has concluded with a probe into the movements of several other people known to frequent Wangetti Beach or who were there on the day of the…
A pair of legends of the Australian rock music scene and a top-line Indie-pop trio will be the headline acts for the Savannah Sounds music festival coming to Port Douglas in May. Indie-pop band…
The Savannah Sounds first band line-up announcement will be made at 9am today. Savannah Sounds is a new weekend-long music festival coming to Port Douglas Carnivale from May 23-25. Friday night…
Douglas Shire Council has responded to an urgent call for assistance from communities affected by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, with members of Council’s Disaster Management Unit (DMU) to complete a…
As a journalist for more than 30 years, I have interviewed hundreds of people hailed as heroes for saving the lives of others… firefighters, cops, family members who acted in the right way at the…
A Mowbray father and son have been convicted for a series of drug-trafficking-related offences. Paul Micheal Heidke, 45, was sentenced in Cairns Supreme Court to nine years and three months in…
Wonga Beach artist Kassandra Savage is part of the  20th year of You & Me, a celebration of First Nations artists across Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait. UMI Arts will…
BUSINESS FEATURE Ray White Port Douglas is making a real difference by sponsoring the Douglas Heat Basketball Club, the Junior Crocs, and the Mossman Sharkettes. For Junior Crocs AFL players Ava…
Free urgent care, fully bulk billed, without waiting hours in a busy hospital emergency department, will be a reality in Northern Cairns if the Albanese Labor Government is re-elected. Labor has…
READ THE STORY Sarah Jane Gladigau Sadly the retaining sea wall will be so high that it will obscure half of palm cove so we as residents spend millions to build a wall to obscure a view that…
Daintree River tour operators are overjoyed about a recent influx of crocodile hatchlings, with a host of babies emerging from their eggs for the first time in three seasons providing a treat for…
Are you as keen as us to find out who the headline acts are for Savannah Sounds? Well, it seems we only have a few more days to wait for the first announcement.  The festival organisers…
BUSINESS FEATURE Nadia Sinkovich is the face of the national operation Behaviour Boost the Douglas Shire local has built from the ground up. Nadia did her primary schooling at St Augustines and…
Thousands of cardiac patients in remote parts of Cape York and the Torres Strait will have better  outcomes because cyclists rode their bikes to Cooktown.  More than $147,000 worth of…
BUSINESS FEATURE Local basketball is growing in the Douglas Shire, and for Douglas Heat U14 players Piper Saxon and Gemma Cocks, the sport is a big part of their lives. With strong community…
Former Port Douglas dive instructor Jess McQueen has been killed in a car crash in northern Western Australia. Ms McQueen, 27, was involved in a single-car rollover on the outskirts of the WA town…