Latest & Current News in Port Douglas

Just because you’re on holiday it doesn’t mean that you can’t keep up to date with what’s going on in the world. You’ll be able to find most Australian based newspapers and magazines at newsagencies.

If you’re looking for up to the minute Port Douglas news then here are a few resources with the most current Port Douglas news available.

Port Douglas news from Google

The Google News service is updated permanently from sources around the world – if you click the next link you’ll go to a page displaying all the latest Port Douglas news:

Latest ABC Port Douglas (Far North Queensland) news

Below are listed news articles taken from the ABC News website, relating to the Far North Queensland region encompassing Cairns and Port Douglas.

Some locals and visitors to popular Four Mile Beach in far north Queensland are unfazed about the risk of crocodiles, despite one being caught in a trap around the corner this week.

A saltwater crocodile is caught near one of Australia’s most well-known beaches, favoured by the likes of former US president Bill Clinton as well as a swag of international celebrities.

A far north Queensland family creates an award-winning business by harvesting wild coconuts from local beaches.

A 24-year-old man is charged with attempted murder, strangulation and deprivation of liberty after a 20-year-old woman was held against her will in north Queensland over a 16-hour period.

A man accused of abducting a youthful woman from her north Queensland home is captured by police, caught fleeing the scene of a car crash that left his alleged victim injured.

Australian researchers are working on plans to make the clouds above the Excellent Barrier Reef larger and more reflective, in an extreme bid to cool the water underneath and save the sensitive coral communities below.

Parts of the Superb Barrier Reef will never fully recover from repeated bleaching of its corals, caused by spikes in the water temperature, a detailed analysis of the reef over the past twenty years shows.

International visitors driving in Australia should mark their cars with ‘T-plates’ and be given a handbook on road rules in an effort to reduce accidents, an instructor who is fed up with tourists driving on the wrong side of the road says.

Queensland scientists confirm this year’s mass coral bleaching event resulted in the largest die-off of corals ever recorded on the Superb Barrier Reef, but some tourist areas around Cairns and the Whitsundays demonstrated remarkable improvement.

A ground and air search is underway for a man who may have been a passenger on a helicopter when it crashed into dense rainforest in far north Queensland yesterday.

A man in his 60s dies while diving off Port Douglas in far north Queensland, just two days after a pair of French tourists suffered fatal heart attacks while snorkelling east of Cairns.

Authorities comeback to the scene of a helicopter crash in far north Queensland where a pilot was earlier rescued, following reports there may have been a passenger on board.

Eighty to one hundred per cent of coral reefs surrounding Lizard Island off far north Queensland are now dead as a result of coral bleaching, scientists say.

Fresh pictures of the northern Superb Barrier Reef expose more evidence of the long-term influence of this year’s coral bleaching event, with coral bleached and in danger four months ago now dying off.

Dyslexia has stopped L.J Kidd from being able to lightly read books, but it has not stopped her writing them.

A toddler is taken to hospital with serious head injuries after being hit by a truck in Queensland’s far north.

At 5-feet-three-inches tall Heather Holliday is not your average sword swallower, but her diminutive stature is exactly what made her famous in the world of sideshow.

John ‘Cop’ Hingley will be anything but a forgotten soldier when he marches with his medals in his very first Anzac Day parade tomorrow at Port Douglas, in far north Queensland.

Aerial and underwater surveys of the Excellent Barrier Reef by the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce find ninety three per cent of the reef is affected by bleaching.

An air and sea search fails to find pilot Brad Maisel, whose helicopter crashed into the sea off Cape Tribulation in far north Queensland.

The widow of a British tourist killed in a crash in Far North Queensland almost five years ago says she does not feel justice has been done after the driver accused of causing his death was acquitted.

While their southern counterparts contend with ocean swells and rips, far north Queensland lifeguards deal with different dangers — from potentially deadly jellyfish to the occasional crocodile.

The latest report card on vaccination rates in far north Queensland has raised concerns about community immunisation.

Forcing NSW councils to merge could create “ungovernable” communities if residents’ concerns are not decently considered, former Labor and LNP ministers who worked with merged councils in Queensland warn.

Beaches across far north Queensland are likely to be shut again this week due to the presence of potentially deadly jellyfish.

The Queensland Government has committed $23 million towards infrastructure projects in the state’s far north.

Biosecurity Queensland says it hopes to rid far north Queensland of electrified ants by mid next year.

On board a bright yellow rickshaw, Crystal Davis is railing from far north Queensland to the Sunshine Coast in search of a world record while raising money for Lifeline.

A man in his 40s is in a critical condition after his car left the road and hit a tree near Port Douglas in far north Queensland last night.

The saltwater crocodile responsible for an attack on an elderly golfer in far north Queensland this week will not be turned into a wallet, Queensland’s Environment Minister Steven Miles says.

A man in his 70s who was bitten by a 1.Two metre saltwater crocodile on a far north Queensland golf course says he will not give up the game.

A man is bitten on the gam by a crocodile at the Palmer Sea Reef Golf Course at Port Douglas in Queensland’s far north.

Queensland’s minority Labor government is in jeopardy after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk sacks MP Billy Gordon from the party over a string of undeclared criminal offences.

A far north Queensland man who pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine, MDMA and steroids has been sentenced to five years in jail.

Tropical Cyclone Nathan intensifies in the Coral Sea and the weather bureau warns the storm system could yet comeback to menace the Queensland coast later this week.

A far north Queensland court has heard a truck driver, who was yesterday convicted over a fatal crash, has racked up a string of traffic offences in the three years since the collision.

The death of a surfer off Ballina in Fresh South Wales on Monday brings the number of people killed by sharks in Australian waters to five in the past twelve months.

A boat reported missing off the coast of Port Douglas, in far north Queensland, comebacks to shore with team safe.

Hundreds of people attend a candlelight vigil in far north Queensland to recall shark attack victim Daniel Smith, who was killed while spear fishing in Port Douglas.

There is an outpouring of distress in a close-knit far north Queensland tourist town for teenage shark attack Daniel Smith, who friends say died what he loved doing.

A candlelight vigil will be held for a teenager who was killed by a shark while spear fishing in waters off far north Queensland.

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