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Syringe used to rob Sunshine Coast bottle shop: police

A man has been charged after allegedly brandishing a syringe at a Sunshine Coast bottle shop worker. The 30-year-old is accused of using the syringe to hold up a Glass House Mountains business on Saturday night. Police say he threatened a female staff ... >> view original

US new-age festival comes to Sunshine Coast

One of West Coast America's biggest new-age lifestyle festivals – Wanderlust – is coming to the Sunshine Coast for the first time. The globe-trotting Wanderlust festival shifts home from Washington, New York, California and Toronto and Hollywood after ... >> view original

Vandals target bundles of newspapers with fire

A SUNSHINE Coast newsagency has proven lightning does strike twice, but this time for all the wrong reasons. On Friday the Daily reported Wurtulla Newsagency had sold their second First Division Lotto win in exactly 12 months. But the victory was ... >> view original

Wanderlust Festival set to bring thousands

THE Sunshine Coast will play host in October to a wellness festival that has caught the world by storm. Wanderlust Festival has been lured to the Coast in October and will return in 2016 and 2017 in a deal struck between the organisers and Sunshine ... >> view original

Addict threatens to "knife" passengers on Jetstar flight

A DRUG addict threatened to "knife everyone" on a Jetstar flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne after being told to stow his luggage overhead. While some people would kill for a window seat on a plane, it was getting one that led Sam Llewellyn ... >> view original

Men behind Berardo's praised for contribution

High-class Hastings St restaurant Berardo's, along with the Noosa International Food and Wine Festival, had been placed in administration. The tallest of poppies, the big New Yorker who called Hastings St home, the mover and shaker who called a spade a ... >> view original

Palmview's Strawberry Fields forever busy

THE Sunshine Coast is set for its annual red-berry boon with backpackers settling in for the strawberry picking season. Foreigners keen to complete employment requirements for their working travel visas are queued up waiting to start plucking fruit ... >> view original

Four put in the hard yards for charity trek

FOUR Sunshine Coast residents are preparing to hit the hiking trails for charity. Team Never Never Give Up will take on the gruelling Oxfam Trailwalker next month in honour of the late Sam Naudin, who died of cancer in 2012. The 100km trek, which will ... >> view original

Fire intends to create some breathing space

A GOLDEN opportunity to cement themselves in the top four awaits the Sunshine Coast Fire, providing they can do the business against lowly Brisbane City tomorrow. Hammered 4-0 by arch rival the Brisbane Strikers and 3-1 by the Brisbane Roar Youth side ... >> view original

Falcons end losing streak in Rocky and hang on to hope

THE Sunshine Coast Falcons snapped a four-game losing streak with a hard-fought 34-26 win over the Central Queensland Capras in Rockhampton last night. The Falcons had struggled for the past month after losing several Melbourne Storm players ... >> view original