Sunshine Coast 'elders' are standing up against violence and other top stories.

• Sunshine Coast 'elders' are standing up against violence

  

  THEY call themselves the "elders" of the Sunshine Coast community and they have a message for all the members of the "tribe" - violence will no longer be tolerated. The Maroochydore Men's Shed members are sick of reading about people dying or being injured as a result of coward-punches, domestic violence and other aggression. While some may see them as a harmless group of retirees creating furniture in a big shed, they're hoping their united voice can have a wider impact. Secretary T..

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• Caravan park backed by 79% of businesses

  

  SOLID support from business in favour of retaining the northern Mooloolaba Esplanade caravan park doesn't surprise the save the park action group. But its spokesman, Jon Erbacher, says what does surprise him is the extent of the difference between his group's survey and the one produced by Sunshine Coast Council to justify the closure as part of the Mooloolaba foreshore redevelopment. Mr Erbacher said he had always had concerns about the council report's accuracy. What doesn't surpri..

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• Coast divers plan battle with Tassie for the Tobruk

  

  A BATTLE of the ages is brewing between two unlikely candidates - the Wide Bay region and Tasmania - and the Sunshine Coast tourism industry may be set to benefit. The Wide Bay region wants the HMAS Tobruk, which was decommissioned in July last year, to be scuttled off the coast as a recreational diving wreck, at a 34m-deep site between Hervey Bay and Bundaberg. With the HMAS Brisbane already a diving haven off the Mooloolaba coast, local diving experts believe the addition of Tobruk wo..

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• Mystery ad shoot set to shine global spotlight on Coast

  

  RESIDENTS in Sunshine Beach could be forgiven for thinking their seaside suburb was under siege. The usually sedate McAnally Dr was abuzz with roadblocks, large trucks packed with specialist equipment, film and camera crews, traffic controllers and onlookers. Thankfully, everyone could relax. The talk on the street, literally, was that it was an advertising company filming a cosmetics commercial for international TV release. And the action centred on a particularly impressive-looking..

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• MPs loath to carry the can for a bad decision

  

  TWO local state MPS have thrown their "in-principle" support behind a proposal for Queensland to introduce a 10c container deposit scheme. Member for Kawana Jarrod Bleijie and Member for Buderim Steve Dickson have both indicated their "cautious" support for the plan, which is being promoted by several groups across the Coast and gaining momentum around the state. Along with Member for Nicklin Peter Wellington, they are the first MPs on the Coast to offer support for such a scheme, which..

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• Scorchers step up to remain a chance

  

  THE Sunshine Coast Scorchers have taken a strong step towards keeping their finals hopes alive, producing a fine bowling performance against competition leader University of Queensland. The Coast side played well on a rain-hit day to send UQ to the Buderim sheds on 4-115. Paceman Steven Heise claimed two scalps. and James Bazley and Blake Maher each bagged one. With a win set to push them from sixth to back inside the all-important top four, and only three matches left in the regular..

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• Sixty years on and still going strong

  

  SURVIVING 10 years of wedded bliss is considered a feat. Times that number by six and is it any wonder you'd get a letter from the Queen. But Currimundi's Delma and William "Bill" Payne still seem as happy as when they first started talking at a Brisbane tennis court in 1955. "We both played tennis and he was the new boy that came along one day," Delma said. "I started talking to him and he thought I was interested. I was feeling sorry for him as he didn't know anyone." It was obv..

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• Coast golden girl Larissa Crummer set to fire in final

  

  TEWANTIN'S Larissa Crummer may not have put her hand up in last week's W-League semi-final penalty shootout, but the competition's leading goalscorer says she is ready to step up in today's grand final at Melbourne's AAMI Park. The Melbourne City striker and her team survived a scare against the Brisbane Roar last week to book a place in today's decider against Sydney FC. Remarkably, it is the 20-year-old's first season at the top level and she has already achieved so much. It all st..

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• Australia calls in Khawaja for batting artillery

  

  AUSTRALIA'S most in-form batsman, Usman Khawaja, will fly into Auckland tomorrow to join the ODI squad for the three-game series against New Zealand. Khawaja, a hugely controversial omission from the original squad, has benefited from luckless T20 captain Aaron Finch damaging a hamstring when he was run out in Friday night's T20 beating from India in Melbourne. Finch must now sweat on being ready for the world T20 in India in March. When Khawaja missed the original ODI selection, it pro..

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• Serena Williams in shock loss to Angelique Kerber

  

  SERENA Williams said she is not a "robot" and cannot win every match she plays after her shock defeat to Germany's Angelique Kerber in the Australian Open final. The world number one and top seed was overwhelming favourite to win her 22nd grand slam title at Melbourne Park, but an error-strewn performance helped the German score a stunning 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory. It stopped Williams matching Steffi Graf's Open-era record of 22 major titles, which will now have to wait at least until the ..

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Rob's show reels 'em in to the Sunshine Coast .	Landslip after storm dumps more than 100mm on Sunshine Coast .
The AFL's Western Bulldogs return to the Sunshine Coast .	Life savers thought quickly to avoid tragedy .