Cairns, Australia News

THE Bruce Highway was closed for hours and a man airlifted from the scene after a collision between two trucks in north Queensland yesterday.

The Department of Primary Industries will dam and poison five kilometres of a far north Queensland creek to stop an exotic fish pest spreading through the gulf.

Missing 62 -year old expat Scot, Arthur Booker, may have been devoured by a crocodile investigators confirm after human remains were identified inside one of the resident crocodiles in Queensland, Australia.

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Human remains have been discovered inside a crocodile suspected of killing and eating a missing British-born man in Australia.

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Rangers from the Environmental Protection Agency have caught a third crocodile near Cooktown in far north Queensland as part of investigations into last week's disappearance of a 62-year-old man.

THE union which covers paramedics in Queensland has called for ambulance officers to be equipped with capsicum spray.

ONE of two crocodiles captured near Cooktown has been taken to Cairns for scans to determine whether it is responsible for the death of a man who disappeared last week.

A ROGUE three-legged bull crocodile suspected of killing Arthur Booker will be "sent to stud" after being X-rayed for signs of human remains.

POLICE have found a man's watch and sandal in the river where he is believed to have become the victim of a 6m crocodile.

DNA evidence has linked an Adelaide man to a rape in Far North Queensland that happened almost 14 years ago.

'If all my years of traveling taught me anything,' laughed Eric Carlton, 'it is that I loved Australians.

A Scottish-born veteran of the Vietnam war is believed to have been taken by a monster crocodile in far north eastern Australia.

The late Steve Irwin's conservationist father Bob Irwin has urged authorities and the public not to retaliate against crocodiles after a suspected fatal attack on a tourist in Cape York.

A search is being conducted along the banks of the Endeavour River near Cooktown.

QUEENSLAND Environmental Protection Agency staff are taking crocodile traps to a campsite in the state's far north where a man is believed to have been taken by a croc.

POLICE in far north Queensland are searching for an elderly male believed taken by a crocodile near Cooktown early this morning.

Queensland is in northeast Australia, home to the cities of Brisbane and Cairns.

Researchers say alcohol restrictions are helping to curb violence in far north Queensland Indigenous communities.