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Innisfail director of nursing Michelle Slater in the emergency department and the new ieMR system. Picture: CHHHS

Digital health rolled out

EVERY hospital within the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (CHHHS) has now been converted from paper to digital health records in a significant improvement to

4 June, 2025

Cairns Mayor Amy Eden.

Local News

Getting best deal for city

Cassowary Coast Regional Council is to charge ratepayers $2.25 every six months to post them their rates notices. Picture: CCRC

Cassowary Coast News

Rates postage charge anger

CQU research vice-president for research Grant Stanley and newly-launched Jawun Research Institute director Prof. Yvonne Cadet-James. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

Cairns News

First Nations in essence

Cr Matthew Tiockner and deputy mayor Cr Brett Olds opposed the council's latest reconciliation action plan. Pictures: Cairns Regional Council

Cairns News

Plan causes disharmony

Whitfield budgie breeder Bruce Schiuster with one of his prized birds. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

Manunda News

Budgies swoon aplenty

Cairns Mayor Amy Eden (left), Italian Festival committee member Nerina Tuoto, festival president Claudio Di Bartolomeo, Luigi Tuoto and Member for Leichhardt Matt Smith at the launch of the 2025 Cairns Italian Festival. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

Far North News

Italian Festival offers expanded ‘25 program

Tandem paragliding above Wangetti Beach on the Captain Cook Highway returns in June. Picture: High Adventure Paragliding

Cairns News

Soar high above the beach

Retirement village resident Colleen Duplock leads a chant at a protest of 100 pensioners at the Cairns Regional Council chambers on Wednesday morning. Picture: Nick Dalton

Portsmith News

Rates protest gets rowdy

Episode two leading ladies Sonlia founders Sonya Alba-Miller (left), Liana Haste, You Can’t Do That in the Bush executive producer Laticia Braving, episode one leading men Connor Clarke from Plastic Pirates and Dennis Fay from Salty Monkeys. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

Cairns News

Of course you can do that

Jaxon Corbett and Dakota and Trinity Jones are looking forward to the KidsLIfe Expo. Picture: Supplied

Parramatta Park News

Larger, better expos are all about child’s play

Friday’s fireworks go off with a bang.

Port Douglas News

Carnivale captivates people

Some of the damage at Lake Placid about to be repaired. Pictures: Cairns Regional Council

Caravonica News

$1.1m fix for Lake Placid

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