The Latest Breaking News from Cairns

Wayward Saints fall to Power in Cairns

St Kilda coach Brett Ratten rues his team's wasted opportunities within range as he prepares to play unbeaten Melbourne after an agonising one-point defeat.

AAP · Apr 30, 2022

Power surge to pip St Kilda in Cairns

Port Adelaide have found a way to beat St Kilda by a point after trailing for most of a slogging AFL game in heavy, slippery conditions in north Queensland.

AAP · Apr 30, 2022

Federal election: Leaders clash over cost of living as record inflation becomes key election issue

Record inflation and cost-of-living pressures continued to dominate the campaign trail, as the major parties took their election pitches to Sydney and Cairns.

ABC News · Apr 27, 2022

Qld man charged with woman's murder

A Queensland man has been charged with the murder of a woman in Cairns.

AAP · Apr 9, 2022

Getting down with Didg – Queensland’s Deaf Indigenous Dance Group

The Cairns-based troupe provide a safe space for dancers to express their culture and communicate freely

The Guardian - AU · Apr 8, 2022

Qld woman's death treated as suspicious

A possible domestic violence link is forming part of a police investigation into the death of a woman in the driveway of a vacant Cairns unit.

AAP · Apr 8, 2022

Cairns inquest hears from police who failed to find missing woman Ms Bernard since 2013

The family of a woman who went missing nine years ago in north Queensland want answers as to why she was never found.

ABC News · Apr 3, 2022

Taipans ruin Phoenix's NBL finals push

South East Melbourne's NBL play-off hopes are in tatters after Cairns Taipans upset the Phoenix in a thriller.

AAP · Apr 2, 2022

Midnight Oil cancels Darwin, Cairns concerts after frontman Peter Garrett tests positive for COVID

The iconic Australian band says it is "profoundly disappointed" to cancel two shows in the group's final tour.

ABC News · Apr 2, 2022

Queensland's growing COVID-19 outbreak of BA.2 Omicron sub-variant puts health system under pressure

The number of hospitals and ambulances workers isolating or quarantining with COVID doubles in a week and a half, with Brisbane's northside, the Gold Coast, Cairns and the Darling Downs hardest hit.

ABC News · Apr 1, 2022