Cairns, Australia News

We're getting a sneak peek of the cover of the 2012 Sports Illustrated swim suit issue.

Cyclone Jasmine, which began over a week ago when it formed over Cairns, Australia, has meandered through largely unpopulated ocean areas south of Fiji.

FROM Brisbane to Cairns, motorists have logged on to The Courier-Mail's new Traffic Hot Spots page to report dangerous driving issues.

The importance of clutch goalkicking in Super Rugby's torrid local derbies has put Queensland radar-boot Mike Harris's nose in front in the battle to replace Quade Cooper.

THE Great Barrier Reef is coming soon to Sunday night TV, and Ewen Bell has followed in the footsteps of BBC filmmakers to preview its charms above and below the water.

Super Rugby champions Queensland kicked off their 2012 preseason campaign with a 27-20 trial victory over a willing Brumbies outfit in Cairns.

OK, a few days ago I told you about Astronomy magazine's planned trip to see the June transit of Venus in Hawaii.

Newly appointed Australian Rugby League Commission chairman John Grant fired a shot at AFL on Saturday declaring the rival code will struggle to "take away any turf" from rugby league.

"Massacre" is the word former CSIRO agronomist and now University of Queensland Honorary Research Fellow Dr Mike Foale uses to describe the destruction of coconut trees by Department of Environment and Resource Management rangers on Russell Island in the Frankland group 45km south-east of Cairns in the early 2000s.

LAST WEEK, in memory of the day that North Queensland experienced the biggest cyclone in recorded history, emergency personnel whose assistance bordered on the heroic, and locals who lost homes, cars and their most treasured possessions, gathered in Tully to mark the first anniversary of Cyclone Yasi.

The State Government says Irvinebank's Ibis Dam, south-west of Cairns in far north Queensland, will be transferred to the ownership of Tablelands Regional Council in July next year.

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MANAGING the Cyclone Yasi clean-up was a tough job, but it proved to be one of Russell Gilmour's more rewarding experiences in his 26-year career with the Queensland Government.

Ben Lucas says he and Mike Harris will not be simply warming the seat at fly half for Queensland ahead of Quade Cooper's return from a knee injury in April.

AN AUSTRALIAN gay couple have had their six-year-old son taken from them by child protection authorities in Los Angeles while the FBI and Queensland Police investigate allegations that they are members of an international paedophile ring.

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A 45-year-old man who set fire to a car after being teased has been sentenced to two years in jail in the District Court in Cairns in far north Queensland.

THE AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION in Papua New Guinea has expressed its deepest sympathy to families in who lost loved ones in the sinking of the MV Rabaul Queen .

SYDNEY: Qantas chief Alan Joyce yesterday warned the airline would be forced to slash services and expressed "grave fears" for its future if proposed laws strengthening its ties to Australia went ahead.

Feb. 7 – Auckland International Airport, the country's biggest gateway, flagged monthly gains in both international and domestic passenger numbers in December.