New balanced budget for new council

Earlier this morning the new Tablelands Regional Council (TRC) has handed down its first budget for the 2020–21 financial year. TRC Mayor...

Hepatitis C outbreak across FNQ

Health authorities are blaming unsafe needle sharing amongst prisoners at Lotus Glen Correctional centre for a spike in Hepatitis C in the...

School choir to sing on the big screen

THE Mareeba State School (MSS) Auslan Choir has been given the chance to get back on the big screen after they recently...

Tablelands Better Beef Open Day 2020 Official Guide

Green cane fields are turning white.

Green cane fields across the Tablelands are turning white as some farmers start to experiment with growing cotton as either a rotation...

56 year media career comes to an end.

After 56 years as a local journalist, 4AM newsreader Barry Simpson is about to call it a day. Barry began his career...

The Express Newspaper 29th July 2020

Bob Katter officially opens new Mareeba office

Even though the doors have been open for a few weeks, due to social distancing and conflicting schedules the official opening of...

Golf club turned tourist park

Visiting tourists with an itch for golf will be able to get that and more after the Ravenshoe Millstream Country Club applied...

Another horror weekend on Far North roads

It was another horror weekend on Far North roads with several accidents requiring the Cairns rescue helicopter.   Paramedics were called to...