In 2004, as a tribute to these mining pioneers, the 149 kilometre road between Mareeba and Chillagoe was named the Wheelbarrow Way. For the past six years, an annual wheelbarrow race brings the ...

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Police are appealing for information on a man who has been missing from Chillagoe, 206km west of Cairns, since early this week. Read Today's Paper Tributes. Rewards. Subscribe for $4.

CHILLAGOE is close to putting the no-vacancy sign out on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with visitors from the Far North flocking to the village on what would have be Chillagoe Festival weekend.

THE people of the Queensland country town of Chillagoe have gone buck naked to save their much-loved rodeo. Jackie Sinnerton. less than 2 min read. November 18, 2012 - 1:00AM.