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.
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 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.
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 $15 million first stage of a city parkland, which will become the Gold Coast’s ‘crown jewels’, will begin construction this year. And there are plans for it to become even larger.
BURLEIGH business owners are split on the route of the light rail. They say there’s a fine line between getting it right, and destroying the beachside suburb completely.
LIGHT rail is coming to central Burleigh Heads and long-term plans reveal when locals are likely to see the golden and blue trams arriving. Here’s how long you will be waiting.
THE GOLD Coast’s next train station will be built between two of the city’s busiest suburbs, with the new link costing more than $100 million to build. Here’s how the rail extension will transform the area.
DEBATE rages over where the Gold Coast light rail should go after Burleigh Heads and what effect it will have on the Gold Coast. Two of the Coast’s leading figures reveal what it will mean for you.
THE Spit should be preserved and restored, writes Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who says it has the potential to be for the Gold Coast what Central Park is for New York City.
NEW data reveals what Gold Coasters want to see happen on The Spit in the future and whether they see high-rise towers as critical to it remaining a drawcard for locals and tourists in the future.
THE Spit should be renamed to reflect its new place as the Gold Coast’s central park under a bold proposal to give stewardship of its land over to the community.
GOLD Coast school populations are growing, some at a rate of over 350 per cent in just five years. SEE HOW YOUR SCHOOL RATES
GOLD Coast principal John Thornberry shares how his school went from 300 to 1300 students, and the future of education.
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