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Letea Cavander is a reporter for the Sunshine Coast Daily, with a focus on court and council stories in the Noosa region.

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Biggenden cadet Samson Wykamp checks his footing as he abseils down Mt Ngungun.

Authorities close popular hinterland rock-climbing mountain

Park rangers have closed a Sunshine Coast hinterland peak popular with mountain climbers and abseilers.

OpinionOpinion

‘Shake it off’: Keyboard warriors need to calm down after ruling

For those who have decided the world is ending because of a Queensland native title determination, please take the advice of the great songstress of our time Taylor Swift and calm down, writes Letea Cavander.

Sunshine Coast

140+ FACES: Glitz, glamour at Coolum State High School 2024 formal

All the action from the Coolum State High School 2024 formal has been captured in more than 80 photographs as students graced the red carpet and turned up in hot rides. MEGA GALLERY, VIDEO.

VideoGympie

A land slip at Inskip Point today, June 3, was captured by rangers on drone footage.

WATCH: Rangers capture dramatic landslip in action

Spectacular drone footage by park rangers has captured a sinkhole, or landslip, happening at Inskip Point after another one earlier this year caught campers’ attention.

Police & Courts

The house fire was deemed non suspicious by police.

More details revealed after house destroyed by blaze

Fresh information has emerged about a blaze that destroyed a home and caused massive amounts of smoke in a quiet Bundaberg suburb.

UpdatedSunshine Coast

Man arrested by police at Kawana Shopping World. Picture - Instagram.

WATCH: Man allegedly armed with scissors arrested after kill threats

A man has been arrested at a major Queensland shopping centre after he allegedly emerged from a store with scissors threatening to “kill everyone”. Watch his arrest here.

Bundaberg

Police call for help to locate missing Monto woman Wendy Hansen.

Missing woman mystery deepens as police plead for help

Police have renewed their plea for public help to find a Monto woman missing for almost three months and last seen on the Sunshine Coast.

VideoPolice & Courts

WATCH: Man in mercy dash after car plunges 10m

A man has been flown to a Brisbane hospital and the Bruce Hwy remains closed after a car plunged 10m down an embankment north of Gympie.

Business

This picture taken on November 27, 2019 shows waves hitting the shore in Majuro, the capital city of the Marshall Islands. - More than 200 people have been forced to flee their homes, after they were inundated by freak waves in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro. Swells averaging five metres (16 feet) washed rocks and debris onto roads, temporarily cutting access to the international airport at the peak of the flooding on November 27. (Photo by Hilary HOSIA / AFP)

Developer steps in with $70m seawall to protect remote islands

A Sunshine Coast developer will build a $70m seawall in a remote and low-lying island nation that was once the centre of nuclear arms testing to protect it from rising sea levels.

Gympie

A man has been flown to a Sunshine Coast hospital following a horror crash on the Bruce Hwy at Federal on May 20.

Car flattened by truck in horror highway smash

A man remains in a Sunshine Coast hospital after he was trapped in a car after it was completely flattened by a truck on the Bruce Hwy yesterday. Pictures and details here.

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