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Port Douglas local Pete Gilmour, owner of Sportspower, is loving life in his favourite role yet: first-time dad to his 14-month-old daughter, Islay.
Pete is used to helping locals gear up for an…
Douglas Shire artists now have a dedicated space to showcase their talents following Tuesday night’s official opening of a revamped pop-up gallery in the foyer of the Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort…
Last Saturday’s Western Australian by-election in the state seat of Secret Bay was worse than diabolical for Labor.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that Labor’s rating in opinion polls at 28 per…
An abandoned four-wheel drive car buried almost up to its windscreen has been dug out of the sand by Douglas Shire Council and Queensland National Parks workers after sitting on the beach for four…
Douglas Shire residents have been led down the garden - or bicycle - path on promised projects never completed, says Cooya resident Josie Muller.
Ms Muller has delved into the plans for the FNQ…
Mossman State High School’s Indoor Sports Centre was bustling on Tuesday evening, 25 August, as a large crowd of students and parents turned out for the annual Subject and Careers’ Expo.
The event…
A local birdwatcher has issued a warning to Douglas Shire residents to stay right away from dead birds, and keep their pets away as well, saying about 10 dead and sick seabirds have been discovered…
The first Mossman Sharks junior league team to make a grand final in a decade is aiming to go one better this Saturday in Cairns against Edmonton Storm.
The Sharks Under-14 boys beat the Kangaroos…
Should smart glasses be banned?
Don’t ask me how the government is going to achieve it, and what it might create on the flipside with illegal trade (think chop chop tobacco), but I support saying…
A 20,000-kilometre solo motorbike ride around Australia lands in Port Douglas this Wednesday, 2 September, as rider Nigel Howard arrives for a special event at Crystalbrook Marina’s Boat House Venue…
A woman in her 60s who was rushed from a boat 60km off the coast to Cairns hospital via Port Douglas last Wednesday after a snorkelling incident has died.
A Queensland Ambulance Service…
The Copperlode Falls Dam Early Warning System will be live tested on Thursday, September 3 between 10am and midday.
The test will involve the simultaneous activation of nine outdoor warning sirens…
The pausing of the issuing of working visas for people from a host of countries is expected to hit Douglas Shire as hard as any region across Australia.
Temporary workers from countries including…
Far North Queensland’s premier tourism body has made an impassioned plea to the Federal Government to reconsider changes to the working-visa system, saying the impacts are being felt already with…
If you’ve seen Nicky G’s toad-racing show at Chilly’s pizza restaurant, you know it’s a lot of fun.
So much fun, in fact, that it’s starting to attract a national TV audience.
Earlier this…
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It will put Port Douglas on the map as the go to place for mariners both local and international for maintenance and repairs on any boat or size. It will add a huge…
Much-loved Aussie musician Missy Higgins has been announced as one of the headline acts of the Savannah in the Round festival in Mareeba in October.
In the final act announcement of the festival,…
Tablelands adrenaline junkie Zepp Maxfield ticked off a bucket list waterfall cliff jump last week when he threw himself off Millaa Millaa Falls to the shallows more than 18m below… and has got on…
Far North-based track designers World Trail Company and Contour Works are set to start building the next section of the multimillion-dollar Wangetti Trail between Ellis Beach and Wangetti, but the…
Kuranda Range road was closed in both directions this morning after a serious crash near the bottom of the road.
The road, which is one of only two main roads into Douglas Shire from Cairns, was…
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