Today's forecast is shower or two.

A controversial feature now planned for several Gold Coast towers has been backed by locals, thought there are warns about what not to do inside them.

FEW Gold Coast criminals are more infamous than Christopher Wayne Hudson.

SOME beach suburb property owners are facing at least a 10 per cent rate hike due to soaring property values – more than double the average increase of 4.3 per cent.

Collapsed classrooms, a ‘flying squad’ of emergency teachers and critical vacancies in schools … there is no doubt we are in midst of an education crisis.

There have been 158 new developments submitted to Gold Coast City Council in the past 14 days.

Next week’s state budget will include spending on plans for a new hospital to service the southern Logan and northern Gold Coast growth corridor.

An extra $5m in funding is to be provided for the booming screen industry on the Gold Coast, as the State Government unwraps a pre-Logies gift package.

Today's forecast is possible shower.

Taxpayers paid tens of thousands of dollars for a Commonwealth Games official to return to Australia to face trial for an alleged sexual assault.

The cableway can be built, light rail should be extended to the airport and council will expand its services rather than cutback staff.

Despite the worst rental crisis on record, about 87,000 ‘empty’ homes are not being put to work prompting calls for penalties against owners who don’t rent them out.

Most week days, after getting her granddaughter Aria off to school, Natalie Hinton heads to work at a domestic violence refuge. She sits in front of women who live in fear; for themselves, their children, their family, their pets. She tells them: “Never go back.”

A person has fallen from the Surfers Paradise QT Hotel.

DEVELOPERS are rushing to get their high-density towers approved by city leaders before contentious proposed changes are made to the City Plan.

First, I better come clean.

A billionaire has drawn the ire of Main Beach residents over a bulky grey masonry block wall built across the width of the proposed Oceanway, partially blocking the view from a public lookout.

Frenchies, Pugs and Sausage Dogs may dominate our Instagram feeds, but the humble Maltese is top dog on the coast.

Today's forecast is mostly sunny.

THE Gold Coast this week said goodbye to one of its oldest buildings.

Prolific developer Barry Morris has filed plans for two towers in central Broadbeach.

Police want to speak to these people in relation to a string of incidents including the theft of perfume, blood glucose strips and eyedrops.

Tomorrow's forecast is mostly sunny.

There have been 188 new developments submitted to Gold Coast City Council in the past 14 days.

Residents had to scrape frost off their cars before work and school on Friday morning, and again on Saturday as temperatures dropped 10 degrees Celsius below average June temperatures.

A stoush is brewing at Palm Beach, where a developer has offered $5000 cash to nearby residents in exchange for them dropping a court appeal against his 14-storey project.

A Commonwealth Games official will return to Mauritius with sexual assault allegations still hanging over his head after a jury was unable to determine a verdict.

One of the city’s busiest stretches of highway is facing a cost blowout of up to $100m and significant delays, adding further pain to thousands of motorists.

Multiple students at a Gold Coast primary school have been infected with hepatitis A, sparking an investigation by health authorities.

A leading property expert is questioning why the Gold Coast needs so many golf courses when more and more people are sleeping in their cars unable to get homes.

A Gold Coast man has been charged with child sex offences after he allegedly arranged to meet with who he believed was 13-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity.

WHEN a new hospital for the Gold Coast’s fast-growing north will open its doors remains a mystery, as the city’s emergency departments continue to struggle with demand.

Today's forecast is partly cloudy.

As Baz Luhrmann greets me at the door of his Star Gold Coast suite, he looks me dead in the eye and says: “Congrats on your big court win.”

Aussie rules, rugby and junior league played through the muddy mayhem as sport returned in full force at the weekend.

Today's forecast is mostly sunny.

THE Gold Coast faces a worsening housing crisis and “nothing to show for” a trillion dollar debt left in the wake of Scott Morrison’s government, says Queensland senator Murray Watt.

POLICE are searching for a nine-year-old girl who disappeared from a Southport park on Saturday afternoon.

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Tom Hanks and Baz Luhrmann are just two of the stars arriving for the Australian premiere of Elvis tonight.

There have been 196 new developments submitted to Gold Coast City Council in the past 14 days.

Today's forecast is shower or two.

Elvis has done a lot more than adding much needed Hollywood glitter to the Gold Coast.

An apprentice tradie who fly-kicked a 56-year-old man in the chest outside the Gold Coast University Hospital has walked from court on a good behaviour order.

POLICE have released footage of a horrific armed robbery in the Gold Coast’s north early Friday morning.

A former travel agent took more than $74,000 in people’s payments for holidays and used them for her own means, it will be alleged.

A one-of-a-kind paint ’n’ sip nightclub has opened in Burleigh Heads, hosting kids’ birthday parties by day and strippers by night.

A desperate Gold Coast refuge owner says she is turning away 15-20 women every day and predicts the domestic violence crisis will spiral further unless courts get tough on thugs.

It was the lobster roll that clinched it.

There have been three company liquidation notices in the Gold Coast Local Government Area today and 175 for the past year.