Water supply has been a hot topic in the Douglas Shire over the last few years with ever-increasing water restrictions being applied during the dryer months of the year. After a particularly dry…
Netflix has announced it has commissioned its first Australian Netflix Original documentary, Microworlds: Reef, with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen…
The big questions this week are: what do governments do and why do they do them? This week’s budget was an abdication of the fundamental reason for government: to do the things that must be done…
The latest edition of the Port Douglas Magazine is now in market with a focus on the region’s recovery.
In its 31st issue, Newsport’s sister publication is reflecting on the great resilience of the…
Port Douglas’ Port Shorts Film Festival will be among the first in the world to produce a simultaneous virtual and live event when it kicks off next weekend. The 2020 Port Shorts Film Festival will…
Douglas Shire Mayor Michael Kerr was full of praise for the Port Douglas Reef Raiders rugby union team who won the 2020 premiership after defeating Wanderers 29-24 in this A-Grade final at Barlow…
Douglas Shire Council has received a welcome boost following the Queensland Audit Office giving Council’s latest Annual Financial Statements a clean bill of health. Council tabled the 2019-20…
Queensland will head to the polls on October 31 to decide the 2020 State Election. There are eight candidates who have put their hand up to run for the state electorate of Cook which stretches from…
The Covid-19 pandemic has hurt the local economy, but the real estate market is buoyant ending a 17-year drought of properties sold sight unseen. For the first time since 2003, four properties…
A world-first citizen science project has kicked off on the Great Barrier Reef today with a flotilla of research vessels, tourism boats, private boats, and superyachts deployed to key sites to…
