Looking for a fun weekend of events for the kids? The Cairns Children’s Festival has revealed its 2020 line up with a little something thrown in there for the parents too. Iconic Australian music…
Twenty-eight new Aussies, who now call the Douglas Shire home, were granted their citizenship at a well-attended ceremony in Port Douglas on Australia Day. Around 200 people packed into the Port…
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UPDATE:
The Bureau of Meteorology has cancelled the severe thunderstorm warning issued this morning. The immediate threat of severe thunderstorms has passed, but the situation will continue to…
Netball is back in 2020 and the Douglas Netball Association is calling on all netball lovers to come and give it a go with pre-season training about to get underway. Douglas Netball President…
Schools across the Douglas Shire opened their gates this morning for the first day of term one 2020 and some excited little students were eager to start their very first day. There were no nerves…
Douglas Shire’s most outstanding citizens have been recognised at the 2020 Douglas Shire Australia Day Awards in Port Douglas on Sunday. The day’s top honour, Citizen of the Year, went to founder of…
AFL Queensland is on the hunt for a new coach for its North Queensland representative team after head coach, Brad Cooper, who is also the Senior Coach of the Port Douglas Crocs, stepped down from the…
If you are still giving thought to running in the local government election on 28 March, you may want to take into account the complexity of this decision. Those who have already committed – and…
If the impeachment hearings this week are any guide, it will have to be the court of public opinion, not the court of the Senate, that removes President Donald Trump. Increasingly, though, the…
