Youths charged after alleged hotel car theft
An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy have been charged following an alleged vehicle theft from a Cairns hotel on the weekend.
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An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy have been charged following an alleged vehicle theft from a Cairns hotel on the weekend.
Part of the Bruce Hwy was temporarily closed, and one person has been rushed to hospital, following a two-vehicle crash south of Cairns.
Officers have taken a man into custody who police allege is at the centre of a horrific knife attack on another man at known Cairns North itinerant hotspot.
Central Queensland University celebrated its biggest-ever graduation event in Cairns.
A Cairns court has heard how, in an extreme act of Kuranda Range road rage, a man exited his vehicle while it was in reverse causing it to total another car while he punched its driver in the face.
Labor has lashed state MPs in response to a hit job of the ALP’s Leichhardt candidate from the floor of the Qld parliament in a high stakes battle for the north described as being especially dirty in 2025.
Stakeholders have issued an urgent plea to Leichhardt candidates to commit to funding a Cairns cancer centre ahead of the federal election on Saturday.
Three teens, two aged 15 and a 16 year old, accused of a vile home invasion and rape at knifepoint have had their matters heard in the Cairns Childrens Court.
Farmers in the Far North’s food bowl have posed heated questions on climate change and net zero emissions targets to candidates for Kennedy as contenders make their final stump speeches to undecided voters.
The deaths of James Jeffrey Nichols, Donald Fredrick Ruthenberg and Janice Claire Hinchy have been announced in the The Cairns Post’s My Tributes. Read the latest death notices here.
Funerals for Colin Frederick John Roberts, John Sebastian Lizzio and Agnes Betty Knoll will be held in in Cairns this week. Read the latest funeral notices here.
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Here is a list of District Court sittings at Cairns on May 2
During the first day of a specialist deployment to the Far North 24 people have been charged including one teen who police allege bashed a homeowner and demanded car keys before taking off.
A group of 16 people including a young baby have been saved by a ship crew after being stranded without food or water on a remote Torres Strait islet. Here’s how the rescue unfolded.
Police have provided an update on a missing Cairns North man who was last seen on April 28.
A police mental health charity will set up in Cairns this week to confront the often difficult to broach topic of mental health, before beading off on a 9000km Queensland road trip.
Authorities have confirmed that a disturbing voice message sent to the LNP’s two Far North candidates is under investigation with both political aspirants vowing to hold firm in the lead up to election day.
A former Far North MP facing court on assault and stalking charges after police alleged he was involved in a brawl that left a 32-year-old man in hospital has had his matters heard in Cairns Court.
Cairns voters will cast their ballots this week without a pre-election promise from Labor to invest in critical infrastructure to ease the city’s disastrous housing crisis.
A “world-class” exhibition complete with 450 items handmade by the Egyptian government’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will open in Cairns next month. SNEAK PEEK
Mossman detectives have charged a man with the torching of a converted retail premises on the main street of a historic Far North mining town.
Cape York tourism businesses are bracing for a “financial disaster” at yet another closure of the beleaguered Jardine River Ferry that may not open as planned due to extreme river levels.
Cairns mayor Amy Eden has refused to answer questions regarding a ratepayer-funded training course she attended in Brisbane during the federal election campaign.
A Daintree local is over the moon at the surprise unveiling of a new bridge built to replace the old crossing that was washed away by the horrendous deluge that followed Cyclone Jasper.
The King of the North has ushered in a new era in Queensland rugby league with NRL legend Johnathan Thurston joining calls for Sport Minister Tim Mander to match a $15m federal commitment to build a state-of-the-art centre of excellence in Cairns.
Major party candidates for Leichhardt have refused to commit to funding a vital Cairns cancer centre as a councillor urges them to “put aside the politics” and consider the health of residents.
A popular Cairns hairdresser has been ordered to pay more than $700 to a client who lodged a claim over a dye job she described as “devastating” and not the balayage she asked for.
Cairns will play a critical role in the growth of women’s rugby league with a top administrator confident a new elite training facility can take the game to another level on-and-off the field.
The young woman whose brother is accused of murdering her boyfriend in Far North Queensland has told a court she struggles to think about the night when “chaos” and “hell broke out”.
Accusations that Labor supporters defaced campaign signs for a rival candidate around Cairns have been strongly denied by the ALP’s candidate for Leichhardt, Matt Smith.
A re-elected Labor Government will match the LNP’s commitment to build a $15m high performance centre, paving the way for the city’s first national women’s sports team to take the field in 2027.
A cat has been diagnosed with a deadly bacterial disease which has claimed the lives of 11 Far North Queenslanders this year. His road to recovery.
Tempers have flared at a pre-polling booth in Cairns with a Far North LNP powerbroker walking through a TV interview with senator Larissa Waters — then attempting to do so again a second time.
Charmaine Thomas, 21, was caught on security camera last year when she threw a flaming lighter through a broken window one night shortly after another man tossed petrol into the lounge room, causing an explosion that significantly damaged a Mount Sheridan house.
A 21-year-old’s family home was “wracked wtih serious family violence” when he allegedly stabbed his sister’s boyfriend five times with a steak knife after playing Call of Duty, a court has been told.
Cairns Regional Council leveraging support of the Coalition has now leaned on Labor to support construction of critically needed trunk infrastructure within the south Cairns growth corridor.
The family of a little boy “beautiful in every way” has donated his heart after he tragically died following a medical incident at a Cairns childcare.