Port Douglas was treated to one of the highlights of this years Carnivale 2010 when 19 performers gathered at the iconic Sugar Wharf on .       .       . . .  

The iconic Four Mile Beach in Port Douglas came alive on Saturday 29 May from about 8.30am as stall holders, event managers and organisers.   . . . .  

The Sugar Wharf was bursting at the scenes on Thursday night as over 250 people vied for the best spot to view the Carnivale Food Fight  .   . . . 

Zinc Restaurant and bar had a full house for their Domaine Chandon Carnivale 2010 Luncheon on Friday 28 May. Some 120 guests were treated to . . . 

The Port Douglas Waterfront Plan, designed to transform the port village’s waterfront into an expression of the local community, was   . . . .                          

Scarface, one of the two dominant male estuarine crocodiles in the Daintree River, was discovered cautiously returning to his favourite . .   . . . 

According to an article on Travel Today, Princess Cruises will be introducing a new online booking tool for agents in Australia and New Zealand, . . . . . . .                          

We all know (and most of us admit), that the burning of coal and other fossil fuels contributes to the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere .       .       . . .  

The Port Douglas Waterfront Plan, designed to transform the Port Douglas waterfront into an expression of the local community, was . .   . .       . .   

Cairns served an ace on the international tennis circuit when great Australian and former world number one doubles player and seven grand slam   .   . . . 

A great day on Four Mile Beach is planned with a whole mass of activities for all the family. This family Beach day has been a foundation     . . . . . .                          

As part of Carnivale’s action packed Beach Day at Four Mile Beach this Saturday, three events in particular will leave you feeling a little less guilty  .   . . . .  

Virgin Blue has been named best low-cost airline in the Australia-Pacific region at the Skytrax world airline awards. It's the fourth time   . . . . . .   . .       . .   

For the first time Mossman students will receive Cairns Regional Council Mayor’s Youth Achievement Awards Wednesday 26 May. Mayor Val        .   . . . 

Our friends, David and Tyna White from Solar Whisper Daintree River Cruises reported that Fat Albert, the areas dominant male crocodile   . . . . . .                          

For those of you who are on a seafood diet like me (see food and eat it), the 2010 Seafood Extravaganza hosted by Meridien Marina at .       .       . . .  

Around 100 eager competitors took to two of Australia’s finest golf courses to compete in the 2010 Port Douglas Carnivale Golf      Challenge on . . . .                          

The 2010 Exemplar Clipper Cup open class sailing regatta kicked off on Saturday with ten boats in contention. In very light winds the first   .   . . . .  

Hundreds of passengers jumped P&O cruise liner, Pacific Jewel, for a whirlwind visit to explore the wonders of the Port Douglas region . . . . . .   . .       . .   

A meeting involving Cairns Regional Council, Cairns Water, and the Douglas Community Water Reference Group (DCWRG) was held in   . . . . . .                          

Judges Sue Dawson from Paradise Wheels, Sal Streeter from Newsport Daily and Sheryn Blundstone from Pennisula Boutique Hotel .       .       . . .  

In keeping with Carnivale’s vintage theme, The Douglas Shire Historical Society has launched a photographic exhibition at the Port    .   . . . .  

The Highlander Tavern at Julatten is hosting a fundraising dinner with all proceeds going to the Variety, Children's Charity on Friday 4th June . .       . .   

The iconic Mirage Country Club is hosting the inaugural Port Douglas Police and Community Charity Golf Day on Friday 16 July 2010.       .   . . . 

Action packed breaks are becoming increasingly popular as Australians are taking the opportunity to take more frequent, but shorter holidays . . .                          

We are not sure the organisers of Carnivale quite knew what a fast paced rock band they had booked for this Carnivale Club extension of the . . . .                          

In front of a specially invited audience on Sunday morning 23 May, the Rainforest Habitat owners Charles and Pip Woodward and their family .       .       . . .  

A very healthy 700 plus audience came into Rex Smeal Park to enjoy the inaugural Douglas Rock 'n Blues Bonanza organised by Radio Port Douglas.   . . . .  

Approximately 8,000 Port Douglas residents and visitors poured on to the streets to cheer on the parade of floats and performers that made up .       .       . . .  

If you love the idea of a 'pub crawl', the variety of drinks on offer and the new faces at each venue, but battle with the logistics of getting from.   . . . .  

One of Australia's brightest musical discoveries of the new millennium, Katie Noonan returns to the spotlight with an original album, a fresh  . . .       . .   

According to a Council media release received 19 May, keeping license fees at the lowest possible level has been a top priority for Council as the   .   . . . 

Cairns and the Port Douglas region was host to Federal Government Ministers Deputy PM Julia Gillard, Minister for the Environment   . . . . . .                          

The Hollywood Gala event at the Sugar Wharf on Thursday night was the official launching place for Carnivale 2010. The friendly vibe between   . .       .       . . .  

Carnivale 2010 is here at last, and locals will join with visitors from all over Australia and abroad to celebrate what is the traditional start to   . .       .       . . .  

Tourism Tropical North Queensland (TTNQ) Chairman, Bill Calderwood, has urged the Member for Leichhardt, Jim Turnour, and Tourism . . . .  

A $35m water theme park on the Captain Cook Highway in Smithfield has finally been given the go ahead, with construction planned to start in . . .       . .   

Latest figures have shown the number of international arrivals into Australia increased 3% in the year to 2010 following an upward trend .   . . . 

Queensland would be the biggest winner in terms of jobs growth if our politicians took climate change seriously by acting without delay to reduce   . . . . . .                          

Cook MP Jason O’Brien today welcomed a decision by the Mossman Liquor Accord to extend its trial period to six months. Mr O'Brien said, . .       .       . . .  

Stephen Timms son of local Solicitor Arthur Timms and ex Port Douglas cricketer is studying the Science of Sports Fitness Training and Psychology   . . . .  

Eighteen performers congregated at the Tin Shed, Combined Club in Port Douglas on Tuesday 18 May to fight for the right to progress to this   . . . . . .                          

Fat Albert, the dominant mature crocodile on the Daintree River has been seen a lot down at our end of his extensive territory.  He is trying to . . . .       . .   

A new domestic tourism marketing campaign, is urging Aussies to put winter on ice and head north to defrost in Queensland's Tropical North .   . . . 

SkySafari Chief Pilot Bradley King was the winner of the Newsport Mothers Day Competition.  Bradley won a case of Corona for his . . . . . . . 

If you want to enter the Port Shorts competition, "Dream the Theme 2010", today is the day!  This is your last chance to select the theme that 2010   . . . .  

Here’s a reminder to all you photographers out there that entries for the Cairns Underwater Photo Competition close on 30 June, 2010 . . . . .       . .   

Local tourist attraction and iconic personality 'Grub' from Grub’s Personalised Trike Tours recently returned from a fruitful trip to Brisbane to collect  . .   . .   . . . 

Tourism Australia has seen a late surge in the number of entries on its 'Nothing Like Australia' website during the last 24 hours of the competition   . . . . . .                          

The seemingly tireless energy of local community legend, James Watson, has seen his work in the running for the 2010 Cairns Regional Council’s. . . . .                          

This Sunday, 23 of May is a landmark day for The Rainforest Habitat.  Known as one of the must do experiences for visitors to Port . . . . . .   . .   . . . 

Last week in Newsport we reported that the three year nomorecalls scheme (to stop most unwanted telemarketing phone calls) was to be . . . . .                          

Sea Temple Resort and Golf Club played host to French Chef, Manu Feildel (of My Kitchen Rules fame), last Thursday and Friday, giving locals a.       . . .  

Held in the Ballroom at the Port Douglas Rydges Resort, the Port Douglas Miss Carnivale 2010 contest   reached it's climax with all seven  . . . . .  

Long time Douglas Shire artist Gail Shaw launched an exhibition of her Reef and Rainforest Watercolours on Friday evening at the iconic Karnak  . . . . .   

The Port Douglas Tennis Club will be holding their Carnivale Cup this coming Sunday, 23 May from 12 noon   . The round robin event will see . .   . . . 

The Federal Government’s latest budget has dealt Tourism Australia a blow with funding well below expectations According to the Tourism . . . . . .                          

2010 Port Douglas Carnivale Street Parade will explode in a ball of hi-octane street entertainment designed to turn the evening into a true street     . . .  

These two cheeky Miss Carnivale 2010 contestants teamed up on Wednesday evening at The Court House Hotel in Port Douglas to organise    . . . . .  

The only dolphin unique to Australia is in real danger of becoming extinct due to the ever present threat from fishing nets, boats, and coastal   . . . . .   

Cairns region is to have a fresh, innovative planning scheme reflecting Council’s vision for the city and surrounding environs.  Mayor Val Schier   . . .   . . . 

What is your perception of Generation Y (those born between 1976 and 1990)? Some of the harsher critics of this group often use adjectives. . . . . . .                          

Calling All cricketers !  This Saturday, May 15, sees the start of the Carnivale Beach cricket competition.  We are looking for 8 teams to compete this      . . .  

The first of the Plantation Resort Tri-Port SuperSprint Series kicks off at the Rydges pool at 10am this Saturday.  Participants will face a 200m     . . . . .  

The regions’ golfers will have their day in the sun with the Mayor of the Cairns Regional Council, Val Schier, to raise money for the community. . . . .   

On Saturday, 10 July you’ll have the chance to see in action a number of former Wallabies (and a former All Black) who have accepted an . . .   . . . 

This is the ominous warning from Ahmed Dhoghlaf, the executive-secretary of the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity.  Extinction rates of the . . . . . . .                          

Stephen Walsh, founder of Jungle Surfing Canopy Tours in Cape Tribulation and an inspiration to all who met him, was tragically killed in a car    . . .  

Yet again, the amazing Port Douglas community has rallied together for a great cause, this time to save the Carnivale 2010 Fireworks.  Due   . . .  

Organisers of the inaugural Douglas Rock 'n' Blues Bonanza, Radio Port Douglas, have just announced UK’s Bex Marshall will take to the stage   . . . . .  

As a warm up to the NRL State of Origin, Queensland's Tourism Minister is urging Queenslanders to get to the number one spot in the     . . . . . . . . . .   

Now in it's sixth year, the Zinc's Domaine Chandon Carnivale Lunch in association with Moet Hennessy and Domaine Chandon is . . .  

Scientists have discovered the platypus makes antimicrobials that may kill drug-resistant superbugs. The platypus once ridiculed for it's . . . . .  

Are you struggling to make friends and influence people?  Then the fundraising initiatives by Miss Carnivale 2010 entrants  . . . . . . . . . .   

The Farmer swapped his combine harvester for a wife over the weekend at The Clink Theatre and will repeat the process next weekend  . . . . .                          

This year the Douglas Songwriter's competition brought to you by Livewire Music has three exciting heats before the finals on Saturday . . .  

We've all passed them on the road, or pulled over to take a happy snap when the kids demanded to see one of these iconic big things. . . . . .   

Miss Carnivale 2010 candidate, Sophie Stevenson from LJ Hooker had a little help from her friends on Friday down at Calypso Cafe on the   . .   . . . 

We have just received notification that the government is once again circulating their latest attempt to put an end to those   .   . . .                                                            

Port Douglas lover and celebrated Melbourne based comedienne, Miss K is getting all hot and bothered as she makes final preparations for her 2   . . . . .  

The most prestigious festival in Australia for luthiers (guitar makers) is going to have a new kid in town over the weekend . . . . . . . . . 

Adult female and the latest mum, Elizabeth is being very clucky this year and still looking after three of her hatchlings. Yesterday, cruisers were lucky      . . . . . . . .   

The Queensland government says proposed, high impact earthworks in Great Barrier Reef catchment wetlands will now be assessed under   .     .   . . .                                                            

Miss Carnivale 2010 candidate Sophie Stevenson is presenting Pieday, Friday in association with Calypso Cafe down on the corner of Warner . . . . .  

What an experience for Port Douglas local, 'Sharky' Shane Down when he spotted a sperm whale carcass floating in the Great Barrier Reef off Port Douglas.    

Long time local, Ant Verburgt opened up the first part of his online mail order fashion business in April this year with bikinisonline.com.au  .   . . . . . . . .   

The Beach Cricket Competition for Carnivale 2010 on Four Mile Beach is only two weekends away!  This year it’s starting two weeks out on May . . .   . . . 

Of course you have, and now here's your opportunity to tell her just how wonderful she is and how much you love her and you will go   . . .   .     .   . . .                                                            

The country's tourism operators may soon be able to give their green credentials the tick of approval. A 12 month trial of this Green Tourism . . . . . . .                          

Tourism Port Douglas & Daintree would like to remind members to upload their MAY Hot Deals. With Carnivale coming up don't forget to use these services wisely.
  

The Port Douglas Carnivale Street Parade organisers are excited to announce that The Spinnsters (aka The Spinn Sisters) – Hoopnatize   .   . . . . . . . .   

The latest joey from the environmentally vulnerable species of Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo has just emerged from its mother’s pouch at The     . . .   .     .                                                            

The 2nd annual Cairns Blues Festival over the May long weekend was another hit for music lovers in the north. Over 1000 music fans    . . . . . . . .                          

The competition is really hotting up for the coveted crown of Miss Carnivale 2010.  Melanie Boon put on quite a show at the Central Hotal . . . . . .  

Qantas domestic passengers will now be able to check in to their flight at the airport by using their mobile phone. After checking in online .   . . . .   

Amongst peaceful doves and under the watchful eye of the resident nesting pair of Osprey, David Anderson and the team at Thala Beach Resort . . . 

Tourism Australia’s latest campaign created to 'set the record straight’ on Aussie stereotypes is being hailed as a huge success after . . .   .     .   . . .                                                            

Yes, Port Shorts is back!  2010 will mark the Seventh Annual Port Shorts Film Festival in Port Douglas and this year organisers are giving you . . . .