Cooktown Caravan Park owners Leslyn and Paddy Auchterlonie say they are turning away dozens of caravanners looking for a site every day. "It is extremely busy and it is nothing to turn away 30 ...

Cooktown (including Lizard Island) The first true European settlement on Australian soil. Today it is an exotic and distant township with a lazy tropical feel. Located 326 km (by the inland road ...

COOKTOWN’S newest caravan park is experiencing triple the amount of daily inquiries compared with last year, as Far North families look for a safe getaway closer to home.

Ms Steele had worked for Ms Thackeray at Cooktown’s Peninsula Caravan Park for about nine months. She was last seen at the Cooktown IGA on August 2 last year. “It’s like losing a child.

The family was on a three-week holiday on their way to Cooktown and had just stopped at the Lakeland Roadhouse for lunch before the incident. The Brisbane family has been left shaken by the incident.

A WOMAN accused of killing her partner in a Babinda park was allegedly heard by family members saying she would “send you back in a box” after stabbing him repeatedly with a kitchen knife.

NSW man taken by crocodile in Cooktown, Qld. The man was on an interstate holiday with his wife and children when he fell into a river, and is feared to have been taken by a “large” crocodile.

A BRISBANE family has cheated death on an isolated Far North road in a miraculous but terrifying ordeal that has shaken them to their core.

A BRISBANE family has cheated death on an isolated Far North road in a miraculous but terrifying ordeal that has shaken them to their core.

A BRISBANE family has cheated death on an isolated Far North road in a miraculous but terrifying ordeal that has shaken them to their core.