Sacha chases music dreams
By Margaret Maccoll
Sacha Gibbs-McPhee has two months to raise 25,000 pounds (about $42,000) or risk losing out on lifelong dream to study at London’s...
Frogs adversely impacted by bushfires
By Margaret Maccoll
Bushfires should be added to the list of long-term threats facing Australia’s frog species, according to a USC researcher involved in a...
Community generosity has no bounds
By Margaret Maccoll
David and Courtney Rivers are chilling out temporarily at the RACV and looking for rental accommodation while they wait for a replacement...
English language training expansion
By Margaret Maccoll
Noosa-based company Lexis Training has expanded, opening the group’s third Asian language school in Busan, South Korea, this month.
Established in 2004...
Homeless after camp shop shuts
By Margaret Maccoll
About a month after being told they needed to find new homes, some residents at Johns Landing camping grounds are moving on,...
Tennis in his blood
By Margaret Maccoll
For most of his life Pete Hoad rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous growing up as the son of one of...
It’s Noosa all over
By Margaret Maccoll
A campaign combining cinema, television and YouTube commercials, mobile posters on Melbourne trams and Sydney buses and a high profile static poster...
Plastic not fantastic
By Margaret Maccoll
A campaign to make Noosa plastic-free was launched on Sunday at the Noosa Festival of Water by environment group, the Boomerang Alliance.
Spokesman...
Grand old Garry a karate guru
By Margaret Maccoll
Ten years after taking up karate at 64 retired police detective Garry Maher is teaching other over 50s they too can take...
Noosa Alive showcases well-known artists
By Margaret Maccoll
Sunshine Beach artist Sam Vatovey will join a group of eight local artists to exhibit together for the first time at the...
Nothing but net
By Ron Lane
If you look into the background of well-established country sporting clubs, you will always find that there are one or two names...
Sun shines on Noosa market
By Margaret Maccoll
After a week of rain the sunny skies brought locals and visitors out in numbers to the Noosa markets for a tasty...


















