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9th February 2025

AM Edition

How Qld can become an international hiking mecca

Keen bushwalkers say Far North Queensland’s rainforest has the potential to become an international hiking mecca among the best in the world. But that will only happen if the state...

Hell and high water: Inside ground zero of North Qld’s flood nightmare

In the dead of night, as most of Ingham slept, a torrent descended. Nothing will ever be the same again. This is the untold story of how the North Qld spirit conquered unimaginable...

‘I love the idea’: Public garbage bin hack catches on at Machans

A grassroots-led and simple idea is has begun diverting bottles and cans from landfill at a Cairns seaside suburbs and its hoped environment friendly trend will catch on throughout...

Horrific find in search for missing fisherman

Police have located human remains inside a crocodile as part of the recovery of a man reported missing from Aurukun.

Air, road, and sea: When fresh groceries will hit Cairns’ shelves

After a days of bare fresh produce shelves reprieve is on the way for shoppers as supermarkets deliver an update on flights, trucks and barges headed north. When fresh fruit and ve...

Tiny town braced for biggest flood in 30 years, set to cut off Bruce Hwy

Residents in a small town southeast of Townsville are braced for its biggest flood in three decades with the region facing another 500mm deluge that’s set to cut off the Bruce High...

‘We can’t fall apart now’: Mud army mobilised for Cardwell clean up

Questions have been raised about how a Far North council has managed a Cardwell flood disaster as residents now start out on the long road to recovery by moving mountains of waterl...