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Premium Content Subscriber only Sunshine Coast Council has spruiked the benefits of paid parking after mapping out proposed options for public transport and 12 new parking facilities. The draft options analysis mass transit report maps out how public transport could link the Coast in the future. The proposal shows potential mass transit routes, regional rail extensions, high frequency and feeder bus networks and five new Park ‘n’ Ride facilities. A carpark with up to 1000 spaces and bus ...

SEQ weather: Warm change for southeast Qld Weather by Nilsson Jones Premium Content Subscriber only Queenslanders should delay packing away the beach and camping gear this weekend, with glorious clear skies and warmer temperatures returning for a brief encore. Sceptics would struggle to find fault in the forecast weather for the next few days, with sunny skies, light winds and low chances of rain predicted until mid-next week. Weather bureau senior meteor...

Young Henry Hedger entertained the masses at Sippy Downs last week. The youngster relocated from Victoria to the Coast with his parents, Renee and Brooke Hedger, to be closer to Henrys grandmother. Henrys mother, Renee, nominated him in the Dairy Farmers Heres to Good campaign. Henry was chosen from more than 300 nominations and scored $1000 cash for his efforts as well as $1000 to donate to the MS Foundation. The youngster had been taking performing arts lessons since the age of six and ...

Premium Content Subscriber only A 20-year-old man who was caught with more than 2000 images and videos of child pornography has breached the terms of his suspended sentence by failing to report a new Snapchat account on time. Rhys Jaden Friend was sentenced in September last year after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material, the Maroochydore District Court heard on Tuesday. He was sentenced to three years probation for possessing child exploitation material a...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Sippy Downs man has been charged for a string of offences after tyre spikes were used to curb his hours-long spree of alleged dangerous driving actions. The 25-year-old man was arrested and charged on Saturday night after allegedly driving dangerously through Browns Plains. Police first noticed a silver Holden Commodore driving along Browns Plains Road without registration plates at 5.30pm with the vehicle then allegedly performing a burnout and accelerating...

A 25-year-old man has been charged after allegedly driving dangerously through Browns Plains. Around 5.30pm yesterday (May 1), police noticed a silver Holden Commodore driving along Browns Plains Road without registration plates. It will be alleged officers attempted to intercept the vehicle when it performed a burnout, before accelerating away. Polair monitored the car throughout the Logan area. Around 6.30pm, the man allegedly parked the car at a shopping centre in Boronia Heights, before ste...

An intense rain band bringing heavy falls is smashing parts of southeast Queensland with up to 88mm recorded. The rain is set to continue today.

A motorist has been rushed to hospital after rolling the car they were driving on a hilly road in one of three crashes on the Coast.

by Tanya French Premium Content Subscriber only Heavy rainfall and localised flash flooding has lashed the southeast coast with water over roads and more rain on the way. Up to 137mm of rain has fallen in parts of the Sunshine Coast as a coastal trough draws in high rainfall totals. Caloundra has recorded 120mm in the last 24 hours to midday, while Bells Creek South has seen 137mm of falls. Localised flooding in Sandgate and Carseldine has been caused by u...

OPINION: Finally the floodgates have opened and the community is able to have its say on the future of transport in the region, in particular, mass transit and the possibility of a light rail system along the coastal fringe. Its clear from the survey and the Draft Options Analysis Report there is a preferred option the council has its sights set on - light rail. Even the long-awaited CAMCOS heavy rail connection into Maroochydore came under scrutiny in the draft report, in which it was pitted...