What city leaders think of fluoride in Coast water
GOLD Coast city leaders have revealed what they think about fluoride in the water supply five years after they were given the choice to remove it.
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Moment that brought a powerlifter to tears
A Gold Coast powerlifter suffering from crippling pain for more than a year — unable to sit, sleep or walk — has finally gotten his life back after one ‘tiny’, revolutionary operation.
Hospital patients slam treatment wait times
MORE than 70 per cent of patients requiring emergency treatment say they have been made to wait too long at the Gold Coast’s hospitals. But health bosses have hit back.
Why we are ditching private health insurance
GOLD Coast residents are asking if the cost of private health insurance is really worth the expense, with new data revealing how many people are considering dumping it.
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Minister backs calls for Coast whale festival
A NEW winter Gold Coast festival celebrating the annual migration of humpback whales could be on the way. And it has the backing of a leading tourism boss. HERE’S WHAT THEY HAVE PLANNED.
The secret to saving Coast’s koala population
A LEADING Gold Coast conservation figure has revealed a surprising solution to our declining koala population, which comes straight from some of the world’s oldest cities.
The secret to saving Coast’s green space
THE Gold Coast is the nation’s development hotspot, but plans are afoot to preserve the city’s green space and bolster our environmental credentials. Here’s how the Gold Coast’s Golden Age will leave other city’s green with envy.
How this man turned a cow paddock into an oasis
IT’S an environmental secret kept under wraps until now. For the past four years a Gold Coast conservationist has watched in amazement as a tired old cow paddock on the northern end of the city has transformed into a wetland oasis.
Police are ‘moving with the times’: Commissioner
POLICE are more capable and more mobile than ever before, writes Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart. The latest technology has made sure of that, meaning we will continually become better at fighting crime.
Why Coast needs dedicated drug squad
A LEADING local criminologist says the key thing the Gold Coast is missing when it comes to the future of policing is a dedicated drug squad. Here’s why.
The new ways cops will be catching criminals
POLICING on the Gold Coast is getting a shake up as the massive Arundel site moves ones step closer to being built and new ways to combat crime are being dished out. Here’s how our cops will be catching the criminals.
‘Youth crims have taken over my shop’
BUSINESS owners say youth crime has overtaken their shops as they arrive in the morning to find timber strewn everywhere, items urinated on and bottles thrown around the yard by unruly Gold Coast youth gangs.
Shocking reality inside Coast’s children’s court
LEVEL three of the Southport Courthouse is full, with young people milling about dressed in the latest fashions, girls with baggy hoodies covering midriff tops and boys always wearing a cap. They should be worried about facing a magistrate, instead it’s all a big joke
Push for Coast’s own Supreme Court
LAWYERS are pushing for a Supreme Court to be placed permanently on the Gold Coast as the amount of cases needing to be heard in Brisbane dramatically increases.
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