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Douglas Shire Council is inviting residents to reflect on the lessons learned from the 2023 floods and take simple steps to prepare for future disasters, with the launch of a new Living Library.
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A renewed push against the high price of beer - always a contentious issue in Port Douglas - has begun, with a series of new petitions attracting more than 8000 signatures calling on the Federal…
Listening to live cello and harp surrounded by the oldest wet tropical rainforest in the world is something many can only dream of - but Far North Queensland locals will soon have the opportunity…
Drivers travelling between Port Douglas and Mossman now have a new reason to pull over at Roharn Pastoral in Killaloe: a brand-new baby donkey has arrived.
Locals and visitors frequently stop on…
This week’s Newsport Print edition is packed with hyperlocal issues that virtually everyone in Douglas Shire and surrounding regions will have an opinion on.
Many in the Shire community have…
A renewed push against the high price of beer - always a contentious issue in Port Douglas - has begun, with a series of new petitions attracting more than 8000 signatures calling on the Federal…
Far North Queensland residents are asked to Leave A Light On tonight in memory of missing persons and to keep in the spotlight their cases in the hope of finding answers for families.
Now in its…
It’s been a sad fortnight for the team at Wildlife Habitat and hundreds of thousands of people who have enjoyed the character in person and online of one of its true characters, Cass the female…
Who gives a fig about nature?
Plenty of people around here still care, judging by the reaction to the latest announcement that the big fig at Rex Smeal has been facing the chop.
Of course, the…
“Today is not a good day for me.”
Douglas Shire Council member Damian Meadows took on the task of telling the community they would lose a local treasure, and the former police sergeant delivered…
A stay of execution for the big fig in Rex Smeal Park has been granted by the Supreme Court of Queensland, with community crusaders Melina Capogreco and Yolanda Passlow winning a stop work order…
Keeping one Far North Queensland’s best strips of sand clean takes commitment, and since 2009, Tangaroa Blue has met that challenge.
Hosting monthly clean-ups on Four Mile Beach, where volunteers…
Tijania DeCaux, 10, is the last child to sit beneath the shade and umbrella protection of the Rex Smeal Park fig tree just as thousands have before her.
The swing sits still… it was not play that…
A warrior-like performance from the Eastern Kuku Yalanji representative side was not enough to overcome the Queensland Italian team in a showcase of rugby league at Mossman Showgrounds on Saturday…
World-leading arborist, Ian Crossman, now retired in Port Douglas for the past 20 years, says the Rex Smeal Park fig tree facing the chop from today is “perfectly healthy” and Douglas Shire Council…
Keeping one Far North Queensland’s best strips of sand clean takes commitment, and since 2009, Tangaroa Blue has met that challenge.
Hosting monthly clean-ups on Four Mile Beach, where volunteers…
A commitment to creating better health outcomes closer to home has put Far North Queensland in the state spotlight, with the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation taking out the Queensland…
A Far North Queensland leadership delegation has had a “series of positive and constructive meetings” with the Federal Home Affairs Minister and an influential Queensland senator as they petition…
The fight to stop the chop of the Rex Smeal Park fig tree at least until the community has had time to understand the process and be sure that all options have been considered started on yesterday…
Mareeba Shire Council is celebrating Seniors Month this October with a series of free Seniors Morning Teas across the Shire, bringing older residents together for connection, entertainment and…
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