Don't miss out on the headlines from Townsville. Followed categories will be added to My News. Police have revealed they are scouring a “massive” search area for a 35-year-old man who went missing ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is being literally chipped away at to build private aquariums. Now conservationists are raising the alarm. Fishing boats in Portsmith, a suburb of Cairns in Far North ...

Investment warnings meant commercial fishers and other investors struggled to get capital or loans. In some cases, the warnings had been in place for decades, with the industry lobbying various state ...

The move by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority last year to expand no-fishing “green” zones from 4% to 33% of the reef won plaudits from scientists and conservationists, but few friends in ...

Between October 18 – 22 and November 17-21 coral reef fin fish will be closed to fishos across Queensland as they get down to replenish critical fish stocks. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority ...