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Cairns children massacre case adjourned

Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday, 38, was charged with eight counts of murder after the four girls and four boys, aged between two and 14 years, were found dead in the Cairns suburb of Manoora in December. She was mother to seven of the victims and an aunt of ... >> view original

Cairns Regional Council to slap supermarkets with fines for abandoned trolleys

DUMPED: Cairns Regional Council is set to introduce a new system of fines that will result in supermarkets being fined for wayward shopping trolleys. PHOTO: MARC MCCORMACK Source: News Limited. CAIRNS Regional Council is preparing to wage war ... >> view original

Gordon Cairns in box seat for next Woolworths chairman

The company has hired Egon Zehnder to find two new candidates for the board and final interviews are still being conducted. Mr Ulmer, who chairs the audit committee, is expected to stay on the board after Mr Cairns's appointment. Mr Cairns served ... >> view original

Steamy weather to continue for Cairns

NO COMPLAINTS: The weather in Cairns has been dreary, with grey skies and the occasional shower, but that's fine with Melbourne visitor Kara Murchie as she takes a walk on the Esplanade with son Noah Murchie, 2, and mother Leanne Murchie. >> view original

Firefighter Cairns continues to pursue kayaking seat at Rio Olympics

While all the New Zealand hype has been about Lisa Carrington winning two gold medals at the world canoeing championships in Milan, Italy, Kiwi Cairns was there too. The Palmerston North firefighter was the sole member of the Samoan team on one of her ... >> view original

Cairns man Nicholas Collins had eyes taped during hammer bashing, court told

Hamish Stewart Murray, nicknamed “Hammer”, bashed Mr Collins and disposed of his corpse in Cairns mangroves in November 2012. The 30-year-old's skeletal remains, including his badly damaged skull, were found five months later. Murray, 39, says he ... >> view original

Lockout laws not neeJded in Cairns, according to the city's councillors

Cairns' Division 5 Councillor Richie Bates said he would move a motion at today's ordinary meeting to formally declare the council's opposition to the plan. “I expect to get my fellow councillors' support,” he said. “We will write to the State ... >> view original

Pop-up Belgian theatre production arrives in time for Cairns Festival

The Cairns Festival's star act Speigelicious begins a five week season in its specially constructed Spiegel Zelt tent tomorrow night. (L-R) Assistant Producer Lucy Carew and Co Producer Jason Coleman and James McPherson at the unique venue, situated at ... >> view original

Marcia Sheard's inspirational story part of our 'greatest generation'

I'd only known Marcia for a few years, but she gave me a bed to sleep in on our way back from the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 2014, and when in Cairns she'd regularly accompany Gordon to our gigs, sitting there with a glass of red and a ... >> view original

Indonesian-Australian Association to host cultural exhibition in Cairns this ...

BRIGHT SMILES: Yuni Boroh and her daughter Sarah, 3, wear traditional costumes from the Toraja region in South Sulawesi in preparation for this week's Indonesian Cultural Exhibition at the Canopy Arts Centre, run by the Cairns Indonesian-Australian ... >> view original