Category: Gold Coast News

  • SIX ARRESTED ON FIRST NIGHT OF SCHOOLIES CELEBRATIONS

    SIX ARRESTED ON FIRST NIGHT OF SCHOOLIES CELEBRATIONS

    Police believe wet weather has seen schoolies celebrations on the Gold Coast slightly down for the same time as last year’s event. Official celebrations started for students last night around the Surfers Paradise precinct. Six schoolies – all male – were arrested on six offences, with the majority of offences being for drug possession. Eight…

  • PARENTS AND PARAMEDICS BRACE FOR SCHOOLIES

    PARENTS AND PARAMEDICS BRACE FOR SCHOOLIES

    Right now, thousands of year 12 students are converging on the Gold Coast for the first night of this year’s schoolies celebrations. So far, it’s been incident free – parents and paramedics alike, hope it stays that way.

  • CASH, DRUGS & WEAPONS ALLEGEDLY DISCOVERED IN GOLD COAST SEARCH

    CASH, DRUGS & WEAPONS ALLEGEDLY DISCOVERED IN GOLD COAST SEARCH

    More than $50,000 in cash, along with drugs and weapons, have allegedly been discovered on the Gold Coast. Police searched the East Quay Drive unit in Biggera Waters shortly before 9am yesterday, where a number of firearms, ammunition, cocaine, steroids and 14 cannabis plants were allegedly located. A 21-year-old man has been charged with a…

  • GOLD COAST CYCLIST DIES AFTER BEING COLLIDING WITH A UTE

    GOLD COAST CYCLIST DIES AFTER BEING COLLIDING WITH A UTE

    A woman has died after the bicycle she was riding collided with utility on the Gold Coast. The accident happened on Wednesday this week, on Marine Parade in Coolangatta. The woman passed away in hospital in the early hours of this morning. The driver of the utility, a 29-year-old Currumbin Valley man, was not injured…

  • MAIL CENTRE AND GROW HOUSES TARGETED BY GOLD COAST POLICE

    MAIL CENTRE AND GROW HOUSES TARGETED BY GOLD COAST POLICE

    A week-long targeted operation by Queensland police has netted cannabis and other drugs believed to have been bound for schoolies celebrations. In one instance, 13 packages containing drugs were allegedly detected in a Gold Coast mail centre, including cannabis, and performance and image enhancing drugs . Police also say they seized 91 cannabis plants and…

  • FORMER NEWCASTLE ANGLICAN DEAN GRAEME LAWRENCE CHARGED

    FORMER NEWCASTLE ANGLICAN DEAN GRAEME LAWRENCE CHARGED

    He was one of the highest ranking members of the Anglican Church in Newcastle… but former Dean, Graeme Lawrence, is now facing child sex charges. The 75-year-old has been charged with five counts of assault – allegedly committed against a teenage boy 26-years ago.

  • GUILTY PLEA IN ELIZABETH “BETTY” DIXON MURDER MYSTERY

    GUILTY PLEA IN ELIZABETH “BETTY” DIXON MURDER MYSTERY

    It’s a murder case that’s gone unsolved for more than 30 years – but tonight, we finally know what happened to Hunter woman, Elizabeth “Betty” Dixon. A man today pleaded guilty to being involved in her death – the court, accepting his version of events that another man committed the crime… all because Ms Dixon…

  • HEARTBREAKING SEARCH FOR ZAC BARNES WRAPS UP

    HEARTBREAKING SEARCH FOR ZAC BARNES WRAPS UP

    More than 150 volunteers from across the state have wrapped up a weekend-long search in bushland for Hunter Valley teenager, Zac Barnes, almost a year on from his disappearance. An item of interest was discovered by the searchers, who included Zac’s mother, Karen Gudelj.

  • OMCG CHARGES LAID AFTER GOLD COAST POLICE OPERATION

    OMCG CHARGES LAID AFTER GOLD COAST POLICE OPERATION

    Two Gold Coast men, believed to have links to the Comanchero’s Motorcycle Gang, have been charged with cocaine trafficking. Police executed a number of search warrants on the Gold Coast yesterday, as part of a targeted police operation. The two men, aged 24 and 29, were arrested charged with a total of 12 offences, including…

  • RFS VOLUNTEER’S “FIXATION” LED TO 48 HOAX TRIPLE-ZERO CALLS

    RFS VOLUNTEER’S “FIXATION” LED TO 48 HOAX TRIPLE-ZERO CALLS

    A suspended Rural Fire Service volunteer will be sentenced in December, having earlier pleaded guilty to making almost 50 hoax triple-zero calls. Bradley Gallant remains on bail – and there were heated scenes today as he left Raymond Terrace Local Court.