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The need for businesses to constantly change and adapt was the clear message from last week’s third annual Cooktown and Cape York Business Conference.

Flights between Cairns and Cooktown will almost double with Hinterland Aviation announcing new flights starting in 2017.

Great suggestions for improvements and revitalisation have come out of the first of two community workshops brainstorming the future direction of the Botanic Gardens and Nature’s PowerHouse precinct.

A second solar farm will be built next year at Lakeland, four times the size of the Conergy project currently under construction in the small town, Lyon Solar announced at the Cooktown and Cape York Business Conference today.

Local emergency services gathered to train at a mock plane crash exercise at the Coen Airport almost got to test their skills with a real emergency earlier this month.

Thoughtless vandals cost ratepayers money and temporarily cut off the popular radio station Rebel FM earlier this month after smashing the radio dish on remote Mount Tully.

A successful Cook Shire Council grant application will bring about better radio services to the Bloomfield Valley following concerns raised at a community meeting in June.

Online access to vital disaster preparation and tracking information will be much easier with a new section to be added to the Cook Shire Council website.

Cook Shire Council’s free rural numbering program has been rolled out across the shire to improve safety for residents.