PORT Douglas embraced Carnivale weekend with more than 9000 people attending the street parade on Friday night. Glorious sunshine along palm fringed Rex Smeal Park gave the festival a fitting send…
CAIRNS police have hosed down speculation a double fatality on the Captain Cook Highway was caused by the ‘balancing stones’. Commentary on social media has been rife the tragic motorbike crash that…
POLICE have charged a 32-year-old Craiglie man following an alleged incident at a residence early on Saturday morning. A Cairns woman had been socialising with a group of friends in Port Douglas on…
THE party in paradise has officially begun. Enjoy a gallery from the Paradise on a Plate Longest Lunch function taking place right now at Rex Smeal Park, the first of many events over Port Douglas…
FOR local footballer Grant Payne, it has simply ‘come up alright’. For the rest of the Port Douglas community and his teammates, his jumper design for the AFL Cairns Indigenous Round could just be…
THE funeral for tourism pioneer Charles Woodward will be held next Friday June 2. Woodward, the founder of the Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas, passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. …
DOUGLAS Shire Mayor Julia Leu said today no new developer had come forward to construct a retirement village in the shire following last week’s decision by Waks Developments to pull the plug on their…
A 24-year old man has been charged after allegedly strangling a woman in a domestic dispute in Port Douglas. The Port Douglas man, who can’t be identified, was refused bail yesterday and remanded in…
DOUGLAS Shire Council’s local laws team is preparing for regulations of the new Queensland Government dog breeder legislation that comes into effect tomorrow. Under the new legislation, any person…
FROM Niseko to Port Douglas and a cookbook in between. That’s a short description of the recent travels of aspiring chef, writer and business owner Tess Stomski, who will launch her new book Harvest…
