Jessica Ross

When Sunshine Coast mum Nicole Baillie started having contractions, her sister Renee came over to mind her daughter — then Renee's waters broke too.

South Australians will argue it's a fritter, while Victorians tend to call it a potato cake — hence the backlash over the Queensland-born opposition leader's post on Sunday where he didn't call it a scallop.

A family holiday turned into a "crisis" when a jellyfish sting caused a severe allergic reaction for a three-year-old girl on K'Gari (Fraser Island), and emergency services faced complications that led to treatment delays.

When the federal government withdrew its support and the cost more than doubled for a major road project on the Sunshine Coast many believed it wouldn't happen. Were they wrong? 

A company owned by the developer behind a long-awaited water park and surf pool project on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has gone into administration, with the land to be put on the market early in the new year.

A Sunshine Coast council budgets more than $10,000 for police patrols after creating new laws banning dogs from previously designated off-leash areas.

Stockland has spent 14 years trying to get the Sunshine Coast project off the ground. Today it has been granted preliminary approval to go ahead.

Police hope a computer-generated image of a man found floating in the Maroochy River will help identify who he is.

A Queensland woman purporting to be a registered psychologist treated patients for more than seven months before being caught out by a nurse, a court has heard.

The 53-year-old was charged after officers attended his unit in March amid concerns for his welfare.

At a work conference, in a room filled with hundreds of people, a conversation with a Gooreng Gooreng elder led Maria Suarez to a sister she never knew she had.

Detectives are investigating an incident on Queensland's Sunshine Coast last night where a man allegedly deliberately struck a pedestrian in a car park on Currie Street in Nambour.

Peter O'Neill is a man who has well and truly gone the distance, competing in the world's largest Olympic-distance triathlon every year since 1983.

A Queensland man who made international headlines after pulling apart then setting fire to his faulty Jeep welcomes the importer's new commitment to better handle customer complaints.

A GP clinic in Woombye is set to become the fifth to close on the Sunshine Coast in just over a year, with the manager blaming an unsuccessful attempt to hire a new doctor.

Warana mum Vanessa Morrow permanently withdrew her two sons from a Sunshine Coast early learning centre after receiving messages "almost every day" asking parents to "assist in maintaining compliant ratios".

The site of a controversial $900 million resort proposed for Yaroomba now has a new owner, after being sold for an undisclosed sum.

More than 6,000 people live in this Queensland estate, but there's only one access point. A highway link road is more than a year overdue — and residents fear it could come too late.

Youth crime has dominated headlines in Queensland for months. But a Sunshine Coast man has a plan to help break the cycle — and he's putting his money where his mouth is.

Court documents allege Izak Kane Sefton-Bennett had a loaded rifle in the car and drove while under the influence of drugs when involved in a crash that killed Queensland aged care worker Christella Tan last week.

Police say a car involved in a crash that killed a woman on the Sunshine Coast had been stolen at gunpoint.

The Russian and French crew of an inflatable catamaran say they are "absolutely normal" and are refusing to be deterred by the latest setback to their plan to circumnavigate the globe.

Sunshine Coast Council votes in favour of a plan that will see dogs banned from sections of a popular off-leash beach and only permitted on a lead in other parts.

A Sunshine Coast vet is helping injured birds by creating shoes to assist their recovery, with her latest patient a magpie named after a popular brand of shoes.

How will some of Queensland's most popular coastal regions look with 600,000 extra people, and how can they prepare?