‘Why can’t we use what we’re paying for:’ Ongoing internet outages
Hundreds within Cairns’ northern beaches have endured days-long internet outages since March last year, with the frequency and duration of outages only getting worse.
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Pharmaceuticals and booze stolen in organised spate of ram raids
Cairns glaziers have been struggling to keep on top of an increasing new year workload as young criminals in stolen cars take to ram raiding and forcing entry to shopfronts throughout the city.
Plans revealed for Qld youth offender ‘training village’
Indigenous offenders entangled in the youth justice system could be ferried via barge to a remote “training village” bordered by a croc-infested river, if granted planning approval by a Far North council.
Meet Cairns’ new doctors
The Cairns Hospital and Health Service has welcomed 2025’s cohort of young doctors, strengthening Queensland’s struggling regional health system.
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Albanese criticised for ‘weak reaction’ to anti-Israel sentiment
A Cairns advocacy group has condemned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for “snubbing” the Australian Jewish community following an alleged terror attack, in favour of playing tennis in Perth.
Bluey star opens up about his love for FNQ in new album
Indie rock band Custard frontman Dave McCormack opens up about his love for FNQ ahead of the band’s performance at Edge Hill Tavern this weekend.
‘Nearly swallowed the whole community’: Elders protect communities from future floods
Housing solutions are being led by First Nations elders in southern Cape York as part of a return to country program launched prior to Tropical Cyclone Jasper crossing the coast.
‘Extreme’: How a flood revealed a desperate housing shortage
A flood-hit Far North township’s quest for higher ground has exposed ongoing issues of overcrowding and a lack of housing, the council’s boss says.
‘Predatory’ store clerk sentenced over child sex charge
A Cairns man lured a 15-year-old into the back room of a pool store he worked at with the promise of cigarettes before indecently assaulting her, a court has heard.
‘It changes you forever’: Friends of oldest child killed in massacre speak
It has been a decade since Jade Atkinson and Faith McGreen lost their friend in an unimaginable tragedy. Today they met to remember her, the oldest child killed at 14, and to honour all eight “angels” who lost their lives in one of the most horrific cases in Australian history.
Man shot himself before terrifying meth-fuelled rifle rampage
A man shot himself in the foot before he went on a meth-fuelled rampage with a loaded rifle through the southern suburbs of Cairns, assaulting officers with urine, faeces, and a cup of milo while in hospital.
‘I thought I had the ’good’ cancer – then I Googled it’
An Aussie woman has shared her remarkable story of survival and how she beat the odds.
How do they work? What do experts say? LNP’s new youth crime laws explained
The LNP government’s Making Queensland Safer laws will pass after days of emotional and heated debate in parliament. YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Axed nurse scheme sparks fears over staff shortages
The nurses and midwives union demand to know how the LNP government plans to tackle the critical workforce shortage following the axing of incentives scheme.
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