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Stuart Cumming is deputy editor at the Sunshine Coast Daily and has held that position since December 2019. He was a reporter for more than a decade and covered a wide range of news in that time. He has been at the Sunshine Coast Daily since 2015.

Stuart Cumming

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Noosa

Kalyn Ponga kicks off the NRL match between Melbourne Storm and Newcastle Knights at Sunshine Coast Stadium.

Crowd packs in for afternoon of top class footy

A large crowd has settled in for an afternoon of first class footy as the Melbourne Storm host the Newcastle Knights at Sunshine Coast Stadium.

Police & Courts

A Kingaroy woman will face court over two alleged serious police assaults after being refused entry on a night out.

Police arrest teenager over suburban stabbing

Police have arrested an 18-year-old man and charged him with unlawful wounding after a man was stabbed in a Sunshine Coast street.

Sunshine Coast

Horse scratched from Coast races after stable raid

Racing stewards have scratched a thoroughbred horse that was set to run on the Sunshine Coast today after a raid on a stable this morning.

Police & Courts

Police investigate the stabbing of a 22-year-old man in Affinity Place at Birtinya.

STAB WITNESS: ‘He was laying on the road, it was frantic’

A witness to a wild suburban street brawl has described how his best mate was “in and out of it” after being stabbed in the chest.

Police & Courts

PLANE CRASH: Danny Fowler was taken to Royal Brisbane Hospital in a stable condition.

Man sustains head injury in early morning fight

A man was charged with a public nuisance offence after paramedics were called to an incident in Alexandra Headland this morning.

Police & Courts

Coast 22-year-old stabbed in fight with party crashers

A 22-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed in the chest during a fight at a Birtinya home early this morning.

Sunshine Coast

Buderim St resident Russell Brown does not want Windansea Surf Club to build a clubhouse at the end of his street. Photo Patrick Woods / Sunshine Coast Daily.

Ocean views not worth potential clubhouse strife

Not even the prospect of renewed ocean views is enough to convince former surf shop owner Russell Brown to support a boardriders club being built at the end of his street.

Sunshine Coast

Happy Windansea Surf Club members Tim Carter, Brad Williams, Terry Landsberg, Tim Hindley and Mark Kemen celebrate with juniors Casey and Ryder Kemen in 2017 after Sunshine Coast Council voted to allow the club to lease a section of public land at Buderim St to build a clubhouse.

Where Windansea court case will be won and lost

Battle lines are drawn for a legal showdown between members of a boardriders club and property owners who don’t want a clubhouse on a beachfront nature reserve.

Sunshine Coast

Buderim St resident Brian Heenan has joined a Planning and Environment Court appeal against the approval of a Windansea Surf Club clubhouse being built at the end of his street. Photo Patrick Woods / Sunshine Coast Daily.

Retired bishop fears surfing club’s ‘frenetic’ impact

A retired Catholic bishop fears his beachfront cul-de-sac will lose its tranquil, safe appeal if a surfing clubhouse is built into the dunes.

Sunshine Coast

David, Ruth and their son Reef Heazlewood believe building a clubhouse for Windansea Surf Club at the eastern end of Buderim St will benefit the community. Photo Patrick Woods / Sunshine Coast Daily.

Family fights for surfing clubhouse reality

Pro surfer Reef Heazlewood says many of the skills he has needed to challenge the best in the world were instilled by the examples set at his boardriding club.

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