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Some of the state's most talented surfers are creating serious ripples on the national and international competitive circuit, but the path to compete at the highest levels is a costly one and there's little government support.

Budget airline Bonza continues to draw criticism from customers impacted by mass cancellations on its Darwin-Gold Coast route.

Surfer Lucy Small organises grassroots push for female surfing, essentially flooding a Gold Coast competition with female surfers in an effort to establish an equal prize pool.

Crowds at some Gold Coast surf breaks have doubled in the past five years. Here's how authorities are managing it.

A judge has found a document alleged to be Marty Tullemans' final will is invalid, ending a bitter family dispute over the well-loved surfing snapper's estate.

Gold Coast supermarket manager Janet Doyle says her family business has become the target of "desperate" thieves, stealing everything from sandwiches to meat.

Swiftwater rescue crews are on the scene after flash flooding in Nanango and Kingaroy as an east coast low causes 6-metre waves and dangerous conditions in parts of Queensland.

Two whales have been freed from nets in separate incidents off Queensland's coast, prompting calls for the state government to update its shark control program.

Some locals say they'd rather see kids playing outside than staring at their iPads, but the council says something is going to have to be done about the damage to the hill.

They've been camped in Tweed Heads for more than two months, now Les and Lynne are among hundreds ready to break for the border in the wee hours tomorrow.

Brooke Patterson grew up in Southport and believes it is time to acknowledge the villages within the suburb — the way they do in parts of Melbourne and Sydney.

Several new venues around Brisbane have been added to the state's exposure sites list.

Beef and dairy farmers in News South Wales are concerned livestock moved illegally across the Queensland border could carry cattle ticks which transmit the potentially fatal tick fever. 

Farmers call on the NSW government to open a new cattle tick treatment facility to protect the industry.

Confusion reigns over Queensland's new requirement that essential workers have at least one COVID-19 vaccination to cross the border.

About half a dozen beach-goers helped the whale swim back to sea earlier this morning, but it became beached again just before midday.

In a dizzying turn of events for border residents, those living on the Queensland – New South Wales border will need special border passes to travel around the area. Here's everything you need to know.

Border bubble planned for border communities, as local MPs slam situation as 'chaotic'

Former Bandido Brett Simpson, who runs the popular podcast The Clink, is under the microscope of the Therapeutic Goods Administration over his promotion of CBD oil.

Queensland contact tracers continue to work tirelessly to track people who may have attended at-risk venues. The full list of locations has now been expanded as Queensland's cluster grows.

The list of Queensland's top 10 coastal swimming spots is in — and it includes a surprising choice for top spot.

Owners call time at the Kirra pub where thongs are standard and few dare put on airs and graces. Soon, a $380m redevelopment will turn the landmark into luxury apartments and a new retail precinct.

Gold Coast police investigate if a "wombat-sized" rock was deliberately rolled onto a busy road at Kirra over the weekend, narrowly missing a car by "half a second".

Kirra Beach Hotel is set to be demolished, but developers promise a fresh reinvention of the 64-year-old pub, with close to 200 apartments and 78 hotel rooms to be built over three stages.

Police bodycam video shows the arrest of a man who ran from police at a border checkpoint on the Gold Coast after officers and a police dog chased the 24-year-old through the beachside bushland.