The mayor of Cairns has been told to apologise to her community after admitting to three acts of misconduct.

Floodwaters brought by northern Australia’s heaviest rain in decades left a number of families stranded on rooftops overnight — and even swept a crocodile into one town — as weather forecasters ...

The best and toughest bull riders in Australia have faced off at the Cairns Convention Centre at the weekend to chase $50,000 ...

Relationships Australia, which operates the Cairns Domestic and Family Violence Co-Responder team, has had its contract ...

As the home port to one Armidale class patrol boat, two Cape class patrol boats, two Leeuwin class Hydrographic Survey Ships and two Paluma class Survey Motor Launches, the city also has a crucial ...

Police are still working to identify a helicopter pilot killed when the aircraft hit a luxury hotel and burst into flames during an “unauthorized flight” in the early hours of Monday in Cairns, ...

Only a handful of prestige rainforest or beachfront properties trade hands each year within the surrounding suburbs of Cairns and the neighboring high-end holiday hub of Port Douglas in Australia. A ...

When the Australia–PNG Emerging Leaders Dialogue convened in Cairns in May 2026, the delegates from Port Moresby had a shorter flight than those from Brisbane. That small fact of geography captures ...

Klaus Andres was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 after he was found guilty of murdering his 42-year-old wife Li Ping Cao.