Five people — including three children — have been taken to hospital after a car crashed into livestock on a rural road in the Atherton Tablelands, killing one cow and leaving another to be euthanized.
Free lung cancer screening is now available in Cairns for the first time. Check whether you qualify for the new national program designed to catch Australia’s deadliest cancer early.
Chants of “strong in spirit, bold in fight” echoed through Cairns streets on Friday as Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders marched through the city as part of NAIDOC Week celebrations. SEE WHO ATTENDED
A community program that gets dozens of kids off the streets playing sport and providing after school meals is in doubt after funding for the successful project ran out.
Whether you’re a budding triathlete, run club enthusiast or keen cheerleader, anyone can get involved in this Cairns sporting event making a difference for cancer patients.
Questions are being asked of a local government’s ferry maintenance schedule after an embarrassing failure of the beleaguered Cape York barge just days after hull repairs.
Two men have died on remote Far North roads in a series of unrelated crashes on Saturday.
The state’s new Connecting Queensland aviation fund isn’t high on the agenda of QantasLink’s boss, but the chief executive says taxpayer support is essential to regional aviation.
Passengers travelling on one of the national carrier’s newly arrived regional aircraft will have the chance to fly in a plane blessed by water resembling a mother’s womb.
A recent Cairns Hospital patient has joined calls for improved parking after his wife feared getting a parking fine as staff saved his life.
A Cairns trawler worker targeted a man he knew had just been robbed, extorting him for money in return for the recovery of the stolen goods, a Cairns court has heard.
The Tablelands community is calling for the public to get behind a fundraiser, after a Ravenshoe volunteer firefighter lost his home in a blaze while undergoing cancer treatment. Watch the video
Urgent repairs to a ramshackle jetty at one of Queensland’s most popular island getaways are being called for with tourism leaders flagging serious concerns for the safety of visitors and vessels.
With an average of one police officer a day walking away from their roles, the Queensland union president has raised fears they will never come back to the force.
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