With a focus on boosting the domestic shoulder season, targeted marketing activities helped stabilise visitor numbers to the Douglas Shire last financial year. The 2018-19 Tourism Port Douglas…
UPDATE: Mossman Police have confirmed they attended the sudden death of a man in his mid-40s at the northern end of the Wonga Beach Esplanade. Police were notified after a member of the public…
The driving force behind a renewable and totally green micro-grid project in the Daintree believes a change in elected Council officials will allow for a smoother process. The president of Daintree…
Loss of revenue and a shrinking membership at the Mossman Golf Club are factors impacting a delay in the deck extension at the Douglas Community & Sports Club Inc., or The Tin Shed. Writing in…
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) are monitoring a small vegetation fire burning in Killaloe between Port Douglas and Mossman. QFES said the fire is on top of the hill adjacent to the…
Douglas Shire Council is moving ahead with its strategy to recruit local business leaders to form its Economic Strategic Review Committee. The objective of the committee is to feature broad input…
Douglas Shire Mayor Julia Leu said Council is ensuring that its forward thinking is having a positive effect and will impact future generations. In her message to the 2018-19 annual report, which…
UPDATE: The Department of Environment and Science (DES) has confirmed an off-duty ranger from Heathlands in far north Queensland was attacked by a crocodile late Sunday. It is believed the…
The town has finally come alive with the shining of the lights on Macrossan Street. In what locals and visitors alike are calling a “Lighting Celebration”, the LightUpPort project encompasses…
Labor’s excruciating navel-gazing and entrail-picking review this week of its May election loss makes a couple of good points – Bill Shorten was unpopular and Clive Palmer bought a lot of votes –…
