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VPG youth worker Kayla Gagai celebrates being named the 2025 Australian trainee of the year at the Australian Training Awards in Darwin. Picture: Supplied

Youth worker tops nation

CAIRNS youth worker Kayla Gagai has been named the 2025 Australian trainee of the year, completing a sweep of Far North Queensland, state and national awards.

17 December, 2025

Former CQU uni students Rhanee Casillano and James Brown rekindled their relationship after two years apart and he proposed to his future wife at the CQU Cairns CBD campus. Picture: Supplied

Cairns News

Uni plays role in proposal

Jennifer Spilsbury is the new chief executive officer of Advance Cairns. Picture: Supplied

Cairns News

New top role for journo

Tobias with his mum Katie (surname withheld) are overwhelmed with the support of the community to raise $50,000 for a special vehicle. Picture: Hugh Bohane

Whitfield News

Toddler needs special van

Mayor Amy Eden met Health Minister Mark Butler’s senior adviser Jamie Snashell to push for funds for the COUCH Cancer Hub NQ. Picture: Supplied

Manoora News

Cancer hub’s push for cash

Machans Beach Community Hall will undergo extension works to include an upgraded kitchen, new showers and a separate counselling room. Picture: Cairns Local News

Cairns News

Upgrades for crucial town halls

Mobile barber Jerome Idi with his modified horse trailer. Picture: Supplied

Westcourt News

Barber cut above rest

Guests enjoy last year’s Free Cairns Christmas Day Lunch inside St Augustine’s College dining hall. Picture: Supplied

Parramatta Park News

Lunch for folk alone

Elf Debbie Franklin, Santa David Ince and fairy Glenda Hardiman at the lunch. Picture: Jon Westaway

Palm Cove News

Digging deep yields 350 pressies

Trinity Anglican School’s principal Paul Sjogren (left) with winning students Celia Pramana, Hanako Hamaoka and Hugh Haldane and ‘supercoach’ Patrick Williams. Picture: Trinity Anglican School

Cairns News

TAS maths teams add up

James Cook University vice-chancellor Professor Simon Biggs watches on as traditional owners perform a ceremony at the university’s new health centre – The Yeinie Building. Picture: James Cook University

Cairns News

Smoking ceremony heralds JCU’s The Yeinie Building

The remaining Marist Brothers and other clergy at the St Augustine’s College farewell.

Parramatta Park News

End of holy era at Saints

Colin Sparkes. Picture: Supplied

Palm Cove News

Legend’s final surf patrol

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