Don't miss out on the headlines from Cairns. Followed categories will be added to My News. Thomas West, 23, was killed when the car he was a passenger in crashed into a pole in the early hours of ...

Staff at the Cairns Botanic Gardens have been battling against the tiny Orchidophilus aterrimus, which has been threatening their rare and renowned orchid collection. The weevils damage a plant's ...

We’ve been having a look back through the archives to reproduce snippets from past Christmas and New Year editions of the paper in decades and centuries long past. It kicked off on Christmas Eve with ...

Police have arrested a 27-year-old man after a man in his 20s was found dead on the site of a remote toad in rural Far North Queensland.The man was found dead on Martyville Rd near Innisfail ...

The passenger, a 23-year-old male, died at the scene, while the driver and three other occupants were treated on-sight by Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) before being transported to Cairns ...

Lessons from the 2023 Cairns floods will have nationwide effects on disaster preparation, an expert says. Residents have dropped insurance coverage at "concerning" rates, according to an insurer.