Paul Weston

Gold Coast is officially Queensland’s fifth healthiest region, as council challenges the city to be third by next year.

The Marine Stadium at The Spit – known as “Bums Bay” to locals – has been given a clean bill of health for swimmers, in a stunning turnaround in water quality since Cyclone Alfred.

The City needs to fast-track the greening of an enormous tract of cleared land, or the Gold Coast’s biggest koala population in the north will face a barrier for decades.

Gold Coast homeowners at risk in extreme weather events will receive a free onsite assessment of their properties as part of a new City-wide program.

The Burleigh Pavilion is to get a multi-million dollar revamp of its lower deck after council ticked off on for a new restaurant and “health and wellness retreat”.

The Gold Coast council will spend $110,000 on getting graffiti art on Pacific Motorway bridges and buildings despite opposition including one councillor calling it “vandalism”.

Burleigh’s crime wave has taken off by almost 10 per cent in a year with the rundown Justin Lane area the biggest safety hot spot, warns a new report.

The Gold Coast has widened its wish list for Olympic sports on the back of a planned major upgrade of the Carrara sports precinct, a new submission reveals.

Future transport forecasts have revealed Southport will be confronted by traffic gridlock within six years when key link roads to the CBD will be at “over capacity”.

Mayor Tom Tate has defended the View Tax as “fair and equitable” after an Action Group leader confronted him before a report into it was debated at the City Hall.