Sunshine Coast rejects $1 billion hotel complex and other top stories

Sunshine Coast rejects $1 billion hotel complex

The Sunshine Coast Council has rejected a proposal for a $1 billion five-star hotel and serviced apartments complex. Developers Sekisui House wanted to build more than 2200 owner-residential apartments, 250 hotel rooms and 150 serviced apartments in a ... >> view original

Coast cops it: Strong winds mix with 200mm of rain

Sunshine Coast disaster coordinators are keeping a watching brief ahead of expected heavy rain over the next three days but do not expect falls experienced during Cyclone Marcia two months ago. Neither Noosa nor Sunshine Coast Council plan to open ... >> view original

Bali Nine: Palmer in legal bid to stop more executions

SUNSHINE Coast MP Clive Palmer says he will push for new laws to make it an offence for police or public officials to contribute to the execution of Australians overseas. Mr Palmer said he would introduce a private members bill to bring in the Foreign ... >> view original

Health guru backs Run Sunshine Coast

PASSIONATE health and fitness advocate Nikki Fogden-Moore will join ironman Pete Jacobs as 2015 ambassadors for Run Sunshine Coast. Ms Fogden-Moore is taking time out from her work with Women's Health and Fitness magazine and The Vitality ... >> view original

Racist tirade befouls Anzac spirit at dawn service

A SUNSHINE Coast family with a proud tradition of military service has been rocked by a racist attack on their daughter-in-law at an Anzac Day dawn service. Vietnam veteran Ray Marx and his wife, Robyn Deane, are struggling to come to terms with the ... >> view original

OPINION: Sekisui legacy leaves the town plan looking shaky

SO AFTER so much emotion, energy, financial cost and disruption of focus, Sunshine Coast Council has stuck firm to its town plan. What just went on there? How did we get ourselves into such a pickle so soon after such an extensive five-year exercise of ... >> view original

Aiming to connect business

Maroochydore Chamber of Commerce has replaced its annual Sunshine Coast Business Expo, touted as the Coast's biggest business party, with the conference-style Connect 2015. Yesterday the chamber announced a stellar line-up of speakers for the July ... >> view original

Palmview closer to housing 16000 new people

And the good news is Sunshine Coast ratepayers won't have to bear the financial cost of the major development, which is expected to house 16,000 people going ahead. The Sunshine Coast Council finalised the agreement for infrastructure funding for the ... >> view original

Meet the model who refuses to drop to a size 4

MEET the Coolum Beach 180cm tall beauty who is taking the modelling world by storm. Talisa Quirk has gone from being an unknown schoolgirl to one of Australia's top models, gracing the pages of Harper's Bazaar magazine and Elle and walking the ... >> view original

How Coast trio almost landed in Nepal earthquake

THREE Sunshine Coast residents were heading to Kathmandu on Saturday for the adventure of a lifetime - to climb Mount Everest for charity - when their plane was diverted. Nick Woodhead, of Currimundi, and Tony and Deanne Singleton, of Valdora, would ... >> view original