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Cairns Hospital Board Chair quits

Chair of the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Board Bob Norman suddenly resigned from his role on Thursday, following months of community angst over services and hospital ramping issues. Health Minister Cameron Dick flew to Cairns on ... >> view original

Cairns woman tells of the moment she walked into driveway and saw two pipe bombs

A Cairns woman says she walked “right past” two potentially deadly pipe bombs after she slept through the emergency evacuation of her apartment complex. Police evacuated the Short Street, Redlynch, complex and declared an emergent situation under the ... >> view original

Pipe bombs found in Cairns driveway trigger manhunt

Police are still searching for those responsible for sparking a bomb scare in Cairns yesterday. A two-square kilometre exclusion zone was set up in Redlynch after two homemade pipe bombs were found on a driveway outside a Short Street unit complex. >> view original

Cairns teen accused of spending $12000 of pensioner's stolen money on drugs ...

ALL SMILES: Jahlil Oxenford Pryce, 17 allegedly took ice for three days to stay awake so he could hide from detectives hunting him, while allegedly spending $12,000 stolen from 77-year-old Woree woman Carmela Berizia. PICTURE: ANNA ROGERS ... >> view original

Cairns' Dale Treanor bucks skin cancer to play for AFL Queensland Masters in ...

STILL TICKING ALONG: Thomas Fricker, Peter Harben, Stephen Turner and Dale Treanor limber up old muscles and get ready for a run ahead of the National Masters AFL Championships in Tasmania. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE Source: News Corp ... >> view original

Health authorities given mid-November deadline for plan to fix Cairns Hospital ...

Health authorities in far north Queensland have been given until mid-November to finalise a plan to tackle Cairns Hospital's ongoing ramping problems. State Health Minister Cameron Dick held a roundtable with hospital management, union representatives ... >> view original

Cowboys and Broncos jerseys 'flying off the shelves' in Cairns

FOOTY FEVER: Cairns Sportscene has been extremely busy this week as Cowboys and Broncos fans snap up merchandise, with floor staff Brandon Yang and Kalika Struber getting in on the grand final excitement. Picture: MARC MCCORMACK Source: ... >> view original

Shark sighted in Cairns after girl bitten in water

A seven-year-old girl is recovering after apparently being attacked by a shark off Russell Island, near Cairns. The girl was bitten on the leg late on Saturday afternoon. Paramedics said witnesses reported seeing a shark swimming away before the girl's ... >> view original

Expert says Cairns' tour operators must embrace social media

Mr Blocksidge is one of the keynote speakers at the News Corp Tourism Innovation conference in Cairns in November. He said he was looking forward to sharing his personal experiences of how easy it was for tourism operators, both large and small, ... >> view original

Tourism Tropical North Queensland part of new campaign to market FNQ

Tourism Tropical North Queensland chief executive Alex de Waal said the marketing body had been “working quietly behind the scenes” with Tourism Australia on the filming of Cairns and Great Barrier Reef and rainforest components of a television ... >> view original