A pair of Gold Coast hospitality businessmen have received a temporary stay of the administration of companies linked to them after it was recommended they be liquidated, with debts totalling $2.2m.
Mayor Tom Tate says the Gold Coast will win the race to get Queensland’s first beach bar, telling ‘pale-faced’ opponents to ‘go back to the mountains’. Read where he expects it to be built – and when.
They’re a diverse bunch all with their own backstories and former careers, but these eight new Gold Coast first year constables are united by one thing: a desire to serve. Here’s your opportunity to meet some of them.
The Gold Coast has positioned itself as southeast Queensland’s recycling leader with a $90m purchase, marking the first step in a $1.6bn waste revolution. FULL DETAILS
A new venue is taking over the vacant space left by an eight-year-old cafe, offering southern Gold Coasters Asian and Mediterranean treats to accompany their walks along the Tweed river.
A transport funding update has cast new light on long-held ambitions to extend the Gold Coast’s heavy rail line to the airport. FULL DETAILS
Fifteen years ago when she left the Gold Coast to pursue a career as a writer, Maria Lewis couldn’t have imagined it would become the best place in the world to fulfil those dreams.
Some ratepayers have been left fuming after being whacked with huge rate bills, but new council data paints a different picture. See the winners and losers here:
Some ratepayers have been left fuming after being whacked with huge rate bills, but new council data paints a different picture. See the winners and losers here:
A Russian couple accused of running a money laundering syndicate – via hundreds of small transactions – have been committed for trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court.
Neighbours have shared their horror after a woman’s body was found floating in a Gold Coast creek on Wednesday afternoon. LATEST UPDATES
The Gold Coast’s biggest development fight is where to fit one million people. The choices made will have lasting consequences, writes Paul Weston.
The NSW housing crisis has seen desperate renters happy to fork out a huge amount per week for a backyard shed converted into a “gorgeous solo glamping cabin” with an outside shower and toilet.
Affluent Jefferson Lane has an effluent problem, after a building contractor at an “ultra-luxury” tower project unintentionally filled a gravity sewer main with concrete during site works.
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