Category: Featured Story
The 2021 Port Douglas Hot & Steamy Festival Sets The Glittered Bar High
Despite the tropical weather being a little more wet and rainy than hot and steamy, the Port Douglas Hot & Steamy Festival weekend shines bright…
OPINION / Our Threatened Littoral Forests, and Why They are so Important
COUNCIL’S recent actions in permitting quad bike and ATV traffic on Wonga Beach, and the inevitable impacts it will have on our important (and World…
Former Bandidos Enforcer and Port Douglas Identity, Lee Undy, Meets His Maker
Former Port Douglas resident Lee Undy, 49, has been sentenced for the supply of cocaine.
News Free Facebook / Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining
We woke up this morning as flabbergasted with facebook as always, but this particular manoeuvre was quite a doozy!
It is rather sad that we’ve come to depend on facebook for our newsfeeds, so in a sense, this is another silver-lined cloud for us.
We remain absolutely dedicated to providing our community with quality news, views and analysis of issues that affect and inform us in the Douglas Shire.
OCEAN CONSERVATION / The Great Reef Census Needs Five Minutes of Your Time Today
DOUGLASNEWS.NETWORK The Great Reef Census is a world-first citizen science effort to survey the Great Barrier Reef. Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef have collected…
Regenerative Grazing / Increased Production, Resilience, Profits and a Climate Change Solution
IN an Australian first, Wilmot Cattle Company will be paid around half a million dollars for soil carbon credits. They are being paid for sequestering 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into their soil by using regenerative grazing practices.
Why is Douglas Shire Council tendering for a Daintree Ferry?
Douglas Shire Council has put out a tender for an interim Daintree River ferry service The interim service is potentially a five year contract Does…
OPEN LETTER / To Mr Tim Gurner from ‘Protect Our Paradise’
PROTECT OUR PARADISE Reference : Creation Hotel & Residences, Port Douglas Thursday 11 February 2021 Dear Mr Gurner, We respect and appreciate that you love…
DAINTREE RIVER FERRY / Council announces tender for interim contract
Douglas Shire Council has advised that they will be proceeding with a tender for an interim ferry service after negotiations with the existing service provider…
OPINION / Part 2 Breaking Down the Douglas Shire Council’s Draft Economic Development Plan
DOUGLASNEWS.NETWORK Following on from yesterday’s article, we continue to break down the supporting priorities to perhaps offer a glimpse of the deeper thinking behind the…