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Cannon Park race course in Cairns needs urgent upgrades to avoid ongoing ...

AT RISK: Cairns Jockey Club president John Piccone is disappointed Racing Queensland's $1.96 million upgrade of Cannon Park came without the installation of a sufficient irrigation system or proper drainage. PICTURE: ANNA ROGERS Source: News ... >> view original

Police investigate Cairns hit-and-run after 37yo man injured in Parramatta Park

Police are investigating a hit-and-run incident in Cairns, in far north Queensland, overnight. Officers said a 37-year-old man was walking along Severin Street in Parramatta Park about 11:00pm (AEST) when he was hit by a car from behind. Police said ... >> view original

The Cairns Murri Crew have won an award at the National indigenous Music ...

The Cairns Murri Crew – a team of 15 Cairns High School students – won the National Community Clip of the Year at Saturday's 2015 National Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin. The crew wrote, recorded and filmed the video for their song Built to Last, ... >> view original

Newest Taipan Mark Worthington aware of his influence in Cairns

Cairns was buzzing earlier this year when the Taipans recorded their best regular season result (21-7) and first minor premiership, going on to lose the grand final to New Zealand. Worthington is the one big addition to that team, although they are ... >> view original

Cairns Innovation Centre to 'turbo-charge' jobs, economy

With more than 70 per cent of Northern Australia's population residing in Queensland's north, Professor Harding (left) said Cairns had the business, industry and world-class scientific and education assets to drive the major development. “The region ... >> view original

Top Far Northern artists will hold an exhibition at the Cairns RSL to raise ...

“The artists work with all different kinds of media and we thought why not get the cream of Cairns and the district's artists to come together in an exhibition,” she said. The artists will bring multiple works to the one-off exhibition at the RSL sub ... >> view original

Innisfail grandfather released on parole after drug conviction

Former tow-truck driver Earl Robert Onhensorgen, 62, was handed a six-month jail term by Justice Jim Henry after pleading guilty in the Cairns Supreme Court yesterday to 24 counts of drug supply. The court heard police tapped the phone of the ... >> view original

Hockey's junkets to Cairns

Details of Mr Hockey's taxpayer-funded entitlements show he travelled to Cairns as shadow treasurer 13 times and on another two occasions while in government — for a bill of more than $20,000. Both of Mr Hockey's trips to the tropical north when in ... >> view original

Cairns golf junior Sarah Wilson moves to Sunshine Coast to pursue professional ...

IN THE SWING: Cairns golfer Sarah Wilson, 14, will move from Half Moon Bay Golf Club to the Sunshine Coast to pursue her career. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE. Source: News Limited. WHEN Sarah Wilson beat her dad off the stick at Yorkeys Knob Golf ... >> view original

Authorities give all clear in Cairns suburb of Mooroobool after chemical ...

HAZARD: Dozens of homes were evacuated in Mooroobool as authorities worked to contain a chemical leak this afternoon. It has now been resolved. PIC: ISAAC EGAN, THE CAIRNS POST Source: Supplied. AUTHORITIES have left the scene at Lois St in ... >> view original