Grounding of affordable air services to the Torres Strait has forced travellers to make perilous trips in open boats for months while Skytrans submits flight data to prove routes are safe. Skytrans has been conducting safety tests to prove to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority that commercial flights with full payloads can safely resume on … [Read more…]
The site of a demolished servo could be home to the Far North’s newest fast food restaurant if given the green light by council. All the details of the 24-hour drive-through restaurant. The fast food chain is bringing back the iconic burger after a years-long campaign. Developer Hamdig Pty Ltd – a consortium including businessmen … [Read more…]
A major Cairns shopping centre has changed hands for the first time in 23 years after hitting the market only four months ago. Smithfield Shopping Centre has been snapped up by Alceon and CPRAM Investments for a reported $140m. The new owners are Sydney-based. National property group Lendlease took over management of the centre in … [Read more…]
Shock reform to create a 800km gillnet free zone throughout the northern third of the Great Barrier Reef will cripple Queensland’s wild caught seafood industry, according to commercial fishers. Cairns Professional Game Fishing spokesman Daniel McCarthy says the Palaszczuk government’s fishing limit on Spanish mackerels in north Queensland is impacting “hardworking Queenslanders”. More $160m will … [Read more…]
New evidence has come to light that could prove a 15-year-old St Helens girl did not die by suicide – as long held by Tasmanian authorities – but in fact was murdered. VIDEO > Eden Westbrook, 15, was deemed to have died by suicide in the Tasmanian east coast township of St Helens during 2015. … [Read more…]