Kathleen Skene

Staff and clients of a Gold Coast job agency have been left in the lurch days before Christmas, it can be revealed, when it collapsed owing more than $1.5m.

The boss of a Gold Coast manufacturing and equipment hire company, in liquidation owing more than $3.7m, says he is in “a delicate position” as he faces tax office court action and security claims against his luxury home.

An aborted yacht ‘heist’, $35m set adrift and “12 months of misery” have emerged in the turgid wake of a Gold Coast boat builder’s failed companies.

Parents at the Gold Coast’s top performing schools could be in for a New Year bill shock, with some facing fee increases close to 13 per cent.

A major Queensland building company, battling numerous court cases and out of pocket by more than $30 million, says it is solvent and operating as usual.

Debts of almost $3 million have been unearthed by liquidators of two companies behind Gold Coast business Weight Loss Solutions Australia.

A three-year court stoush between the company of an Insta-famous tradie and a trendy Burleigh nightspot has ended with one of the parties paying out thousands of dollars.

Buyers in the troubled $100 million Midwater tower fear delays caused by a battle between the developer and builder will see them lose the beachside apartments they’ve waited years to move into.

A $10 million-a-year shop-fitting company run by the partner of a Gold Coast reality TV star wants to strike a deal to pay a fifth of the $938,000 debt it owes to creditors including the Australian Taxation Office.

Disgraced Gold Coast lawyer Beau Timothy Hartnett is set to be hauled before the Federal Court by the bankruptcy watchdog.