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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.

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Sunshine Coast

Emergency crews are on their way to a crash on Rainbow Beach Road, where two people are believed to be trapped.

Desperate efforts to save man after group rescued from rip

Efforts to revive a man were ongoing as paramedics rushed him to hospital from the scene of an ocean rescue at an unpatrolled Sunshine Coast beach.

Sunshine Coast

Richard Brooking and his nephew Mason Harnell commemorate Anzac Day at Buderim.

IN PICTURES: Crowd pauses to honour Anzacs

A crowd of hundreds listened to a moving ceremony at Buderim on Sunday in honour of servicemen and women from battles past and present.

Sunshine Coast

Buderim residents Gordon and Louise Steven as well as Mudjimba resident Chris Drabsch and Ashleigh Cooper commemorated Anzac Day at Buderim.

Service stirs vivid memories of mates lost to war

Vietnam War veteran Gordon Steven struggled for words when asked about the significance of Anzac Day given the tremendous loss he has endured for more than 50 years.

Sunshine Coast

Noosa Heads members William, Kym, Grace and Mitchell Floyd at at The Aussies on Saturday.

GALLERY: Crowd lines the shore for The Aussies last day

A big crowd lined the shore at Alexandra Headland and Maroochydore for the last day of competition at this year’s national surf life saving titles. SEE THE PICS

Sport

Maroochydore team members celebrate winning the u-19 surfboat final at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships on Saturday.

Jubilation as Coast teens win national surfboat title

Ecstatic rowers hugged on the sand as their proud clubmates swarmed after watching them take out a national surfboat title by a very slim margin.

Sunshine Coast

An aerial view shows the site where Life Church wants to build a new church on Tanawha Tourist Drive at Mons.

‘Pray for no objectors’: Church bid reaches critical point

A Coast church wants its worshippers to pray no objections arise to its proposed new hub as it instructs them how to best support the project.

Community News

Lots of photos: Epic surf contest draws eager crowd

Plenty of onlookers lined the shore at Moffat Beach as heats started for the Pa and Ma Bendall Memorial Surfing Contest.

Sunshine Coast

Buderim dentists Rene Nobrega and Sara Merritt are inspiring community spirit by calling on people to help each other. Picture: Stuart Cumming

Dentists’ bright gift inspires community spirit

Buderim dentists are brightening more than just smiles with an initiative that has coincidentally helped raise spirits during the past week of COVID drama.

Sunshine Coast

The intersection of Razorback Road and Main Street at Montville. Picture: Google Maps

Worker’s $456k payday four years after Sunshine Coast crash

A worker seriously injured when a car crashed into the back of the car he was driving as he waited at a Sunshine Coast intersection has been awarded $456k.

Police & Courts

Sunshine Coast detectives uncovered about 500gram bags with a significant amount of cannabis at a Bli Bli address this morning.

Man arrested after raid uncovers 44 cryovac bags of weed

A raid on a Coast home has allegedly uncovered a large amount of marijuana that had been packed into cryovac bags.

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