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Families can look forward to using the new Port Douglas Splash Park during the Term 3 school holidays, with the $4.75 million project due for completion in time for the September ...
Full Throttle Tropics will bring various luxury and high speed cars into Port Douglas. Picture: Thunderbolt Run A prestige car rally is making its way into our Shire this weekend as part of a coastal ...
Malaria has impacted Boigu Island on the Torres Strait with one local resident on the most northern island of Australia contracting the mosquito-borne disease. Torres and Cape Hos ...
Big ships are big news for Port Douglas and Newsport Daily’s latest Free Print edition out today has the news on a bold plan to reboot a shipping industry in the Shire. Some heavyweights have thrown ...
A 35-year-old Cooktown woman has been arrested after a truck ramraided a Yorkeys Knob service station. Police raided a Clifton Beach home yesterday (Wednesday, June 4) and charged the woman with two ...
In what is sure to be a welcome Christmas time boost for Cairns and Far North Queensland tourism, award-winning airline ...
A Tablelands farmer has started a petition to expand Mareeba's croc-exclusion zone. A Mareeba farmer has launched a petition calling for the removal of salt-water crocodiles from more parts of that ...
A 43-year-old inmate is still on the run after using a red tractor to escape from Lotus Glen Low Custody Correctional Centre ...
Many Port Douglas residents across Four Mile Beach and Port Gardens lost power this afternoon at about 3pm. A powerline broke ...
A prominent First Nations organisation and enthusiastic local primary school students are teaming up to transform a recently removed tree into a traditional canoe, in a unique cultural and educational ...
Harvesters are firing up across the Tablelands district this week to begin Queensland’s 2025 sugarcane crush. It marks the ...