Cairns, Australia News

Illegal firearms surrendered during the gun amnesty being destroyed by Senior Constable Tony Fishburn, at Loganholme Police Station.

AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER BOB CARR has used his special powers to cancel the 457 visa issued by the Gillard government to an alleged crime boss wanted in Papua New Guinea over the theft of $30 million.

A KILLER strain of mutant drug-resistant tuberculosis has claimed its latest victim in Queensland as health officials investigate reports of malaria and cholera cases in the state's far North.

Police have reassured residents in Cobram and surrounding districts there is little danger to them in the hunt for wanted fugitive Graham Gene Potter.

NURSES are staging protests in North Queensland as they continue to fight what they say is the privatisation of hospitals and health services.

A senior agronomist says the appearance of yellow cane in Mackay in north Queensland might not be disease-related, but could be a result of local environmental problems.

The Federal Government has kept its funding commitment of nearly $25 million to continue a Cape York welfare reform trial.

POLICE are speaking to a man seen with woman before she fell to her death from a hotel in far north Queensland.

A boost in tourism and a weakening Australian dollar may see greater investment in Cairns later in the year, says mayor Bob Manning.

Queensland's coastal lifeline will receive a facelift over the next decade with the Federal Government allocating $4.1 billion for upgrades to the Bruce Highway.

Fourteen people have been arrested in a series of raids across far north Queensland targeting drug trafficking by outlaw motorcycle gangs.

AUSTRALIAN authorities have seized property in north Queensland owned by Papua New Guinean businessman Eremas Wartoto, who is wanted for the alleged misuse of millions of dollars in PNG government funds.

Medical staff at the Cairns Base Hospital in far north Queensland are hoping a proposed name change will help the facility attract more staff and funding.

A man has been jailed for life for raping and murdering an 81-year-old woman in far north Queensland.

FIVE intersections with an appalling crash history will be upgraded at a cost of $14 million being allocated in tomorrow night's Federal budget.

Another round of Indigenous leaders has graduated from Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre Ltd, with 20 participants completing a Certificate II in Indigenous Leadership in Cairns this week.

Cairns MP Gavin King denies the Queensland Government has already made up its mind on how it will change the Youth Justice Act.

TREASURER Wayne Swan will promise a $718 million injection to remove one of Brisbane's worst traffic bottlenecks in tomorrow's Budget as Labor tries to prevent an electoral wipe-out in Queensland.

The convention in meteorology is to report mean temperatures as the average of minimum and maximum temperatures.

The organiser of one of several Cancer Council Queensland's Biggest Morning Tea events in Cairns, Ms Campbell aims to raise $5,000 at Trinity Beach next Tuesday.