Category: Cairns News


$30k Yorkeys Knob Road rampage

A MAN’S late-night rampage behind the wheel of a truck through Yorkeys Knob caused almost $30,000 worth of damage and prompted a magistrate to describe it as the worst driving behaviour he had ever heard of.

SCIENTISTS are taking to the sky to try to work out what parts of the Great Barrier Reef whales find the most romantic.

IT’S an upbeat reggae tune that will strike a chord with locals, especially if it helps Cairns score a world record. If you have any musical ability at all, organisers of the Cairns Ukulele Festival would like to hear from you.

WORK has officially started for Cairns’ new political leaders who must now tackle the delivery of campaign promises that saw them elected in sweeping victories recently.

Cruel blow for Tarzali home owner

IT is every home owner’s nightmare.

The new-look Tablelands Regional Council was officially sworn in at a ceremony at Atherton yesterday.

BUSINESS owners and residents of Atherton say they are "fed up" with what they describe as a lack of local police presence.

A POLICE-led campaign has helped almost 30 people living on the streets of Cairns return to their home communities on Cape York.

FAR Northern farmers who suffer crop losses because of bats say they will apply for kill permits, despite a backlash by animal welfare advocates. 

A MAREEBA man shot dead his ex-wife and her 14-year-old daughter within hours of a magistrate issuing him with a domestic violence order that was intended to protect the pair, a court has heard.

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