The Port Douglas lagoon feasibility study consultants, Strategic Leisure Group, have recommended a preferred location for the project which . . .
 

Property owners in Port Douglas are being detrimentally affected by the relationship between insurance companies and body corporate . . .
 

The region's business community has been given a forum to tell Council what it wants and needs to succeed. Cairns Regional Council has start. . .
      

Meet the people who Tourism Queensland are pinning their hopes on to spread the word that our State is open for business, and that we're. . .
 

Race 6 of the 2011 Poseidon Sailaway Club Championship was the final race of the Summer Series and seven yachts came to the start line . . . 

Tony McInnes features in the second of our Port Douglas Chamber of Commerce profiles. These profiles allow the business community get. . .
      

Cook MP Jason O'Brien said the Liberal National Party should be ashamed of itself for abandoning its planned Shadow Cabinet meeting in Cair. . . 

A producer of popular travel videos on YouTube has criticised Australia's tourism bodies for over-spending, under-delivering, and lacking accountability.
 

Local musician and songwriter, Omid Master, has released a video to accompany his single 'When I close my eyes'.  Omid said the single was . . .
      

Six of Port Douglas' fittest athletes competed in the Pete’s Bridge Duathlon recently, and all six featured strongly in the placings. Held at Gol. . . 

A number of local organisations have benefited from the latest round of grants from Cairns Regional Council with funding being approved acr. . .
 
 

In the wake of Cyclone Yasi, a group of Julatten residents have taken it upon themselves to ensure the region is better equipped to han. . . 

The unprecedented hype of Oprah Winfrey's visit to Australia and subsequent TV specials has subsided, but the Tourism Australia campai . . .
 
 

In 2011 Cairns Festival will launch its 50th celebration of creativity, community, and cultural identity in the Far North. Cairns Regional Council . . . 

The local Parkinson's support group is organising a 'Party for Parkinson's' this Saturday from 6pm at the Court House Hotel to raise fu   . . . 

Now more than ever it's time for the Port Douglas business community to pull together and plan for a prosperous future. That's why   . . . 

Tourism Queensland has launched its latest campaign 'Million Dollar Memo' in an attempt to lure visitors back to the State. The four year . . .
 

The Minister for Tourism, Martin Ferguson, recently announced funding opportunities for Australia's tourism industry by opening a new prog . . .
      

Earth Hour, the climate change awareness and action initiative which started in Sydney in 2007, is on again this Saturday night and resi . . . 

Cyclone evacuation facilities in Douglas are inadequate. That's the overwhelming message from around 94% of respondents to a poll run . . .
 

Preparation of a Cruise Shipping Industry Strategy for Cairns by the State Government will help shape future tourism trends for the . . . 

The draft community plan established by Cairns Regional Council named 'Imagine Tomorrow – Your Community Plan 2011 – 2031' was en . . .
      

Karnak Playhouse founder Diane Cilento has been forced to make the difficult decision to close the theatre due partly to significant storm dama. . . 
 

The Newsport, Port Douglas' daily online news service has reached another major milestone having achieved 10,000 homepage views in . . .
      

Cairns Airport could see an influx of additional arrivals after a deal between China and Australia allows airlines to sell up to 2,500 extra seats from. . . 
 

Singers across the country will be trading their hairbrush for a microphone and the chance to represent Australia in the world's largest amat . . .
      

Port Fusion will be holding its next networking event on Thursday 24 March from 5pm in the Sunset Lounge and Verandah Bar at the Court Hou . . . 

Tourism Queensland boss, Anthony Hayes, talks of the tourism body's plans to set the Queensland tourism industry on the road to recovery.
 

Tomorrow will mark exactly 100 years since a truly devastating cyclone levelled Port Douglas in which two lives were lost, seven of 57 . . .
 

In 2012 the best and brightest of Australia’s tourism businesses will come to Cairns for the 27th Australian Tourism Awards. The event is the . . . 

Without any doubt, Port Douglas and our region as a whole was extremely lucky that the category five tropical cyclone Yasi, predicted to. . .
 

We all know it, now it has been confirmed through information gathered in a new study from research company TNS.  Tropical North Que . . .
      

Danielle is just one of the many people affected by the closure of Bale Resort Port Douglas. With her wedding less than a month away, she . . . 

Queensland’s tourism industry is officially fighting back from a disastrous summer, with details of the State and Federal Government’s $10 . . .
 

60% of tourism and hospitality employees are worried about their career prospects, a new survey has revealed. The results of the survey which . . . 

An International Visitor Survey released recently reveals that Cairns and Great Barrier Reef has regained the No1 position as the favourite Aust . . .
      

The 5 star Bale Resort Port Douglas has closed effective immediately. Staff have been advised that their employment has been terminated . . .

Volunteers grabbed gloves and bags around Australia on Sunday to clean up their environment, and it was no different in Far North Queensland . . . 

The Port Douglas Community Centre played host to a special occasion on Tuesday evening as around 60 people gathered to celebrate 100 . . .
 

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service marine specialists have returned from their init . . .
 

The winner of a competition run by Tourism Port Douglas and Daintree has scored themselves a $5,500 holiday to Port Douglas. Charmaine    Wood, a 26 year old . . .
 

Cairns Regional Council engineers are finalising options to reinstate a washed out section of the Bloomfield Causeway following damage  . . .
      

The Clink Theatre in Port Douglas will soon host a comedy trio direct from the world renowned Adelaide Fringe Festival. 'Sound and Fury' is  . . . 

According to their media release on Friday, Tiger Airways is once again proving its position as Australia’s only true low fare airline, with $1  . . . .
 

According to a media release from his office, Federal Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch today welcomed the announcement of an extra $2  . . .
 

The Tanks Arts Centre in Cairns will host Katie Noonan and Vince Jones , two of the country’s most highly revered vocalists next Friday night 11 March.
 

P&O Cruises will refund 50% of the Pacific Sun passengers' fees from a voyage that departs Newscastle today. 
 

Port Douglas Yacht Club is pleased to announce that the official launch of this year’s Exemplar Clipper Cup Regatta is to be held at the . . .
      

In 1989, Ian Kiernan inspired 40,000 people to Sydney Harbour to scour its shores and waters for rubbish in what was the very first Clean Up Australian Day.
 

From Port's need for improved infrastructure to your Council rates, Mayor Val Schier talks with The Newsport about some of the hot topics that you've told us matter to you.
 

On Sunday 13 March a group of brave locals  will be shaving their heads at a family day at the Port Douglas Yacht Club to raise money for . . .
 

The nation’s premier art fair for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artwork, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) will relocate in 2011 to the . . .
      

Despite the rain Race 4 of the 2011 Poseidon Sailaway Club Championship Summer Series rewarded those sailors keen to sail as the weather. . . 

Price discounting and a transient workforce have been detrimental to the region according to Tourism Port Douglas and Daintree boss, Doug Ryan.
 

The Port Douglas and Mossman Parkinson's Support Group has received a huge boost thanks to a generous philanthropic gesture from the . . .
 

Motorists are advised that the Department of Transport and Main Roads is starting embankment stabilisation works on a section of Captain . . .
      

If you're one of the many people who have left your home town to live in the tropical paradise of Port Douglas, there's no doubt that you will . . .