The outlook for the health of the Great Barrier Reef this summer depends greatly on local weather conditions during the coming months, now that a La Niña has formed in the tropical Pacific. Marine…
UPDATE: The 12-year-old girl has now been located safe and well. EARLIER: Police are appealing for the Far North community’s assistance to locate a 12-year-old girl missing from Bayview…
Short-sighted, uncoordinated, resource-misallocating, inequitable, environmentally destructive, ham-fisted and unhealthy are just some of the adjectives that apply to Victoria’s decision to impose a…
A masterplan for the Port Douglas and Mossman sporting grounds will pave the way for local facilities get bold new facelifts while also putting the region on the map in the sports tourism market. …
Conservation group, Daintree Life, have been left devastated after around 400 newly planted trees were destroyed by vandals in the Daintree last month. Daintree Life have been helping to revegetate…
Two Douglas Shire tourism operators have been inducted into Ecotourism Australia’s Hall of Fame in a list of 10 of Australia’s leading nature-based tourism businesses. The Daintree River Cruise…
Why volunteer as a State Emergency Services (SES), first responder? Well, that is an answer that is as individual as each person buttoning up the orange uniform taking action to serve their community…
Fourteen-year-old local teen, Jack Sampson, will represent the region after being selected in the Queensland Country team to compete at the Surf Life Saving Queensland Interbranch Championships in…
It was the news tourism operators in the Douglas Shire had been waiting for, and following the announcement that borders will reopen to all of New South Wales and Victoria from 1 December, airlines,…
Motorists travelling to Cairns can expect up to 20-minute delays from Monday 30 November as slope rehabilitation works are carried out on the Captain Cook Highway at Yule Point. The works are…
