Cairns has missed out on thousands of industrial jobs as businesses eager to expand are either denied the opportunity or take ...

A map of the proposed Cairns South State Development Area south of Wrights Creek at Gordonvale. PICTURE: SUPPLIED The SDA, spanning privately-held freehold rural land, was approved by the ...

Cairns Regional Council advises residents in the Bartle Frere area that a recent power outage briefly impacted part of the ...

Gold fossickers visiting Mount Morgan are one step closer to having a dedicated area to extract the precious metal.

Currently located 470km east northeast of Cairns, the low is likely to become ... The Bureau of Meteorology's cyclone track map. Senior meteorologist Angus Hines said considerable uncertainty ...

The last tropical cyclone to make landfall in the region was ex-Tropical Cyclone Zoe in 1974 ... Cyclone Alfred formed nine days ago in the Coral Sea, 900 kilometres north east of Cairns, then headed ...

Western Bay community boards have hit back at a proposal to merge, with one saying it would be “eroding a democracy”. At an ...

Rare Category 2 storm nears Australian coast as millions face ‘worst-case scenario’ - Queensland premier warns residents to prepare now for 'extremely rare event' ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says emergency generators will be deployed in communities without power once it is safe to do ...

Mulgrave MP Terry James says “the timing is right” for the “activation” of the Cairns South State Development Area. The gazetted zone of privately and publicly-held farm land near Wrights ...

The state government believes “the timing is right” for privately-held land in Cairns to be converted for industrial use, but fell short of acknowledging compulsory acquisition. Mulgrave MP ...