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Jorina Maureschat is a reporter for the Sunshine Coast region focusing on court, business and property. Jorina completed her cadet year with The Gympie Times in 2022. The masthead won a regional campaign award for the team’s Save Our Sport campaign advocating for sports communities affected by the 2022 floods.

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SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE DISCUSS USE WITH YOUR EDITOR - Coco JB Joyce Bishop-Hewitt has pleaded guilty to assaulting police and another woman.

Court proceedings ramp up after woman’s alleged vicious headbutt

The next steps for a woman charged over an alleged attack on a security guard who stopped breathing and required CPR to be revived have been revealed.

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Vincent Michael Piscioneri leaving Maroochydore Magistrates Court. Picture: Patrick Woods.

Oiled up serial masturbator busted going for gold in retirement home

A 52-year-old man sobbed into his hands after he faced court for having a self-love session for all to see in an aged-care home wearing nothing but women’s underwear and covered in vegetable oil.

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‘I was horrified’: Ritzy neighbourhood’s dune destruction remains unchecked

Ritzy Noosa neighbourhoods continue to claim public beach dunes as their own with an environmental group saying enough is enough after more than a year of pleading with council to do something about it.

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Izac Kane Sefton-Bennett (not pictured) is accused of killing Christella Tan (top right) in an alleged hit and run at Burnside on September 15.

Missing material causes delay in horror fatal crash case

Police are yet to hand over material in a case of a man accused of killing a Sunshine Coast woman with a Mercedes he allegedly stole at gunpoint last year, a court has been told.

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Real estate agent Grant Smith. Picture: Patrick Woods.

WINNER: Sunshine Coast’s top real estate agent revealed

More than 200 readers voted for the best real estate agent on the Sunshine Coast and a passionate agency principal who has spent more than half his life in the industry came out on top.

Sunshine Coast

‘Stop, stop’: ‘Predator’ charged with raping school girl named

A Sunshine Coast man has been arrested and charged with raping a school girl and allegedly had more targets “lined up”. Warning – graphic content

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A man is fighting for life in hospital after a workplace incident in Newspaper Place, Maroochydore. Photo: Jorina Maureschat

Investigation under way as man fights for life after horror workplace fall

An investigation is under way after a man was left fighting for life following a horror fall from a ladder at a Sunshine Coast workplace. He remains in hospital in Brisbane.

Sunshine Coast

Artist render of the $220m residential complex project by Habitat Development Group. Photo: K Architecture

$3m apartments in 200-unit residential towers a step closer

Construction has started on a multimillion waterfront complex which will deliver 200 new apartments to help ease the Sunshine Coast’s escalating housing crisis.

Sunshine Coast

Corporate aircrafts, global expansions: Meet our top tech gurus

The next generation in technology development are shaping the future of the Sunshine Coast through innovative and entrepreneurial business models, community work and, of course, their tech. Meet our brightest stars.

Sunshine Coast

Colin Roy Pearce appeared in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on February 12, 2024.

Next steps revealed as business owner charged over man’s death

A lawyer has detailed what will happen next in the case of a Sunshine Coast business owner charged over the death of a man following a car crash.

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