News from Cairns
Households will pocket $3 billion in power-price subsidies over the next four years, with the Queensland Government’s coffers flush with a windfall from coal royalties. The extra cash from coal will significantly increase the $867 million operating surplus that was...
A Paramedic attacked by a drunk French backpacker she was trying to treat has read a powerful victim impact statement to the court telling of her ongoing physical and mental pain. The Cairns Magistrates Court has heard Timothee Rousselle, 21,...
A Cairns tourist operator has dismissed speculation tiny marine stingers could have caused the deaths of two French tourists, maintaining their deaths were a “one-in-a-million” coincidence. Danielle Franck, 74, and Jacques Goron, 76, were pulled from the waters of the...
The staff of a Great Barrier Reef tour operator did all they could to save two French tourists who died after suffering heart attacks while snorkelling together at Michaelmas Cay off Cairns, the company's chief executive has said. Key points:...
A 31-year-old Masters employee has been rushed to Cairns Hospital after he was struck by a vehicle and pinned to a wall at the Kenny Street store. Cairns police District Duty Officer Senior Sergeant John Rhodes said the injuries were...
Tributes are pouring in for a young Malanda man who died in hospital three days after a car crash near Yungaburra. Dean Milligan, 24, and a friend were heading to work early on Saturday morning when their vehicle left the...