IT WAS a hotly contested day of club surfing on Saturday, October 11, with Coolum Beach hosting the Queensland leg of the Australian Boardriders Battle (ABB) Regional Series, with North End Boardriders Club taking out the top spot in tricky conditions. The…
NOOSA Council was the victim of a sophisticated and well-organised cyber fraud, with a total loss of $1.9 million in December 2024, and news of the theft was only made public in early October 2025, almost a year since the…
IN RESPONSE to the recent marine life entanglements in shark netting off the coast in South East Queensland, a group of several hundred concerned people gathered in Noosa Heads on Saturday, October 4, to voice their frustration and to call…
AFTER considerable feedback calling for the reinstatement of Council’s Australia Day Awards, Australia Day 2026 is set to be a celebratory affair with the local awards returning. The Australia Day Awards were replaced with the Sunshine Coast Biosphere Community Awards…
CLEAN ENERGY Dear editor, As of late 2024, approximately four million Australian homes had rooftop solar, which is about one-third. As of early 2025, approximately 320,000 homes, representing eight per cent of the total, were also equipped with batteries. With…
WITH the first total fire ban of the season announced only last week, the peak emergency time for our region, which runs from October to April each year, was bang on time, and the upcoming Emergency Expo could save your…
LOCAL community and sporting groups who put in applications for funding via the most recent round of the Gambling Community Benefit Fund were recently presented with their cheques by Ninderry MP Dan Purdie. Mr Purdie said it was a pleasure…
VANESSA HALL Editor A SWIFT call to action was organised on Saturday, September 20, in response to recent whale entanglements in shark netting off the coast at Noosa and Marcoola, with the concerned community members asking the State Government…
PILL TESTING Dear editor, Whatever your viewpoint on contraband substances, the principle of harm reduction is a higher order of morality. The Crisafulli Government’s decision to ban pill testing is outright negligence. Several studies around the world have proved beyond…
IT COULD be the one image that saves your life, and this October, the mobile BreastScreen van is returning to Coolum and will be set up at the top of Jack Morgan Park from October 2-16. The service is free,…