The Latest Breaking News from Cape York

Parts of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula have been nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list, a move described as a "monumental" step.

The Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance festival passes ‘these skills, stories and culture down to the next generation’

The first joint native title claim from traditional owners on the Australian mainland and in the Torres Strait will cover land and more than 2 million hectares of water.

US president hails midterm results as ‘a good day for democracy’. And a 51-year-old Indigenous man has died in a watch house in Cape York.

The Queensland government has formally handed over a vast area of land to three Indigenous peoples in the northern Cape York Peninsula.

All national parks in the cape are now in the hands of First Nations people after Wednesday’s ceremony

There are believed to be fewer than 1,500 golden-shouldered parrots left in a small parcel of Cape York in far north Queensland — the only place they are found in the world.

In humid savanna on Cape York Peninsula, February 5, 1922, a man was on the hunt with a local Indigenous guide. They had just heard their quarry calling among the tall grass – a low “oomm, oomm, oomm” – before it burst into view with a flurry of wingbeats. A…