The Latest Breaking News from Normanton

Police believe remains are of Izabela Zablocka, from Normanton, and have launched murder investigation

A murder investigation has been launched following the discovery

Acknowledgement: we would like to extend our thanks to the Gkuthaarn and Kukatj People who invited us to work on this sensitive project through the lens of truth-telling – particularly Phillip George, Richie Bee and Francine George – whose insights have formed a key pillar of the work.

Located less than ten miles from Nottingham is Normanton-on-the-Wolds, a peaceful village between the A52 and A46

Residents cut off by major floods in parts of the Gulf of Carpentaria are facing another month without work while businesses grapple with mass cancellations for the tourist season.

Supplies are being flown, trucked and shipped thousands of kilometres across the state to remote communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria isolated by flood. But as waters continue to rise, operations are becoming more complicated.

With fuel supplies dwindling and phone lines down in some communities, emergency services are bracing for even more rainfall expected later this week.

Residents are basking in the big wet after a monsoon trough has brought heavy rainfall to north-west Queensland. Several communities will be cut off for weeks after the strongest start to the wet season in a decade.

Normanton's new Indigenous-owned supermarket can outlast cyclones, runs on solar energy and has been created to ensure the survival of some of the most remote communities in northern Queensland.