Shelter Dog Paw On Chain Link Fence
Crime by Grace Mason 24th May 2021 12:44 PM A MAREEBA family has won an 11th hour reprieve to save their dog from death row after it was wrongly accused of attacking another dog. Peppa, a four-year-old Labrador cross staffordshire bull terrier, was deemed a menacing dog by Mareeba Shire Council officers in June last year before a destruction order was given a month later. She had been accused of attacking a small dog named Quinn in May with the owners claiming a black dog had jumped the fence of a Mareeba house and attacked Quinn, who suffered several bites.
Roads shut as rainfall set to break records Cairns Airport is set to break its single-day April rainfall record and several roads have been closed as more heavy rain tumbles down.
Weather 20th Apr 2021 4:47 PM
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Subscriber only CAIRNS Airport is looking likely to break its single-day April rainfall record, currently set in 1984 with 185.8mm. The Bureau of Meteorology advised Cairns Airport had received 194mm between 9am Monday and 8.30am Tuesday, and that it would be hard to suggest the record hadn t already been broken, but the data needed to be confirmed, which could take days. Another 79mm of rain has fallen at the airport in the past six hours, though the day s heaviest falls so far have been at Tully where 128mm has fallen since 9am.
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Premium Content  AN active Mareeba community man has gone too young after he died following a collision with a vehicle on the Kennedy Highway. Cole Wyatt, 19, died on Saturday after he was struck by a vehicle about 11.55am travelling east along the Kennedy Hwy, when he had stepped out of his ute to check on it near the Davies Creek Rd intersection. Tributes have flowed in for the youngest son of Mareeba Shire councillor Lenore Wyatt who is being remembered as happy young adult. Mareeba man Cole Wyatt, 19, died after being struck by a vehicle on the Kennedy Highway, near Mareeba.
News by Arun Singh Mann
Premium Content  AN active Mareeba community man has gone too young after he died following a collision with a vehicle on the Kennedy Highway. Cole Wyatt, 19, died on Saturday after he was struck by a vehicle about 11.55am travelling east along the Kennedy Hwy, when he had stepped out of his ute to check on it near the Davies Creek Rd intersection. Tributes have flowed in for the youngest son of Mareeba Shire councillor Lenore Wyatt who is being remembered as happy young adult. Mareeba man Cole Wyatt, 19, died after being struck by a vehicle on the Kennedy Highway, near Mareeba.
News by Arun Singh Mann
Premium Content  AN active Mareeba community man has gone too young after he died following a collision with a vehicle on the Kennedy Highway. Cole Wyatt, 19, died on Saturday after he was struck by a vehicle about 11.55am travelling east along the Kennedy Hwy, when he had stepped out of his ute to check on it near the Davies Creek Rd intersection. Tributes have flowed in for the youngest son of Mareeba Shire councillor Lenore Wyatt who is being remembered as happy young adult. Mareeba man Cole Wyatt, 19, died after being struck by a vehicle on the Kennedy Highway, near Mareeba.