A young sailor is being remembered for his stinging bouncers, his adventurous spirit and the way he looked out for his mates after his tragic death in a Christmas Eve car crash in the state’s north.
Queensland’s road shame over Christmas has been revealed, though there are plans to stop the rot.
Five people have been hospitalised after emergency services responded to a series of crashes across Far North Queensland on Boxing Day. Find out more here.
Edmonton man, Dennis Mark Livingstone Koowootha, 34, has been sentenced to two years jail for striking his partner with a metal bar then burning her clothes in what police have described as a ‘deplorable act of domestic violence’.
After a four-year fight, the Atherton Arboretum will now be officially protected under state legislation but hopes landowners would be ordered to replant cleared trees have been dashed.
A convicted murderer “cynically and wickedly manipulated” his son into a Lotus Glen drug smuggling trade as he collected 10 times the asking street price for the drug, a court has heard.
Snap inspections by the independent workplace regulator has revealed the majority of Cairns cheap eats venues investigated were in breach of workplace laws.
A massive online black market drug trade on websites and social media is continuing to grow amidst an increase in steroid use in Cairns.
Amid the horrors of the Vietnam War, a young Alexander Robert MacDonald learned to shut off his emotions and do what needed to be done – whether that be murdering a man in cold blood to steal his identity, or aiming a sawn-off shotgun at an innocent bank teller in Port Douglas.
Warts and all cane toad couture proudly made in Far North Queensland could one day grace the catwalks of Milan, Paris and London while eliminating a poisonous pest in the process.
A campaign to help the family of a Far North croc victim has now raised an unprecedented amount in less than 24 hours as police review their position on what the Newcastle doctor was doing when he fell into the river.
From repurposed train carriages and tropical retreats to futuristic homes straight out of a Bond movie, the Far North is host to a range of quirky and unique holiday accommodations.
A Far Northern social enterprise has partnered with a Cairns brewery to launch its latest product towards fulfilling its mission of “profits for purpose.”
An experienced crocodile handler believes if it weren’t for people feeding the animal, it would be “unnatural” for a croc to be hanging out in the spot a NSW doctor was attacked and killed. Read his reasons why.
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