Saturday, June 4, 2016

Flood alert as storm lashes Coast, Tweed and other top stories.

  • Flood alert as storm lashes Coast, Tweed

    Flood alert as storm lashes Coast, Tweed
    The Gold Coast is being hammered by heavy rain and wind today Picture: Adam Head4PM UPDATE: More than 250mm of rain has lashed the Gold Coast in 24 hours causing widespread flash flooding, power outages and damage.But the worst of it has still not passed. The Bureau of Meteorology warns the system will track over the Gold Coast throughout the afternoon and evening, bringing intense falls.Residents in Murwillumbah and Chinderah are on flood alert with the swollen Tweed River rising and set to cau..
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  • Full list of flooded road closures

    Full list of flooded road closures
    Carlos Toman and Paul Beck from the Queensland Fire and Emergency crew, Nerang assess the flood conditions at the river crossing on Hardy's Road, Mudgeeraba which has been closed for all traffic. Photo: Regi VargheseHEAVY rain has caused flash flooding across some Gold Coast roads and power has been cut to other areas causing dramas with traffic lights at intersections.Here is the full list of road closures and alerts for the Gold Coast as at 3.30pm Saturday June 4, 2016.More than 267mm of rain ..
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  • Mega storm smashes east coast

    Mega storm smashes east coast
    NSW, Qld brace for weekend of wild weather2:19Qld and the NSW coast are bracing for heavy rain and wind as wild weather sweeps across the region. BRISBANE has copped a battering from wild weather and meteorologists say the massive storm system is moving south.Beaches along the coast are closed as huge waves make entering the water a dangerous prospect. The state’s capital city is flooding and the main highway north — the Bruce Highway — was cut off completely at 10am.Two people died on wet road..
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  • Elite gridiron to touchdown on Coast

    Elite gridiron to touchdown on Coast
    Adam Vernon, a gridiron player who will play for the GC Kings. Picture: John GassA MYSTERY National Gridiron League plans to bring almost 400 American football players from the US for an Aussie-based competition that will include a Gold Coast team. The NGL says it will play three matches at Cbus Super Stadium at Robina in its inaugural season later this year.The first news of the new league came in a press release from Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who is in Denver, Colorado.“The new..
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  • 'My sister was the light of my family'

    'My sister was the light of my family'
    Fatal crash Gold Coast0:31A woman has been killed and a car split in half in a fiery crash on the Gold Coast. WHEN Sammy-Jo Chmieluk entered the world, a five-year-old Candice took her baby sister into her arms and gained a best friend.A devastating car crash which claimed the life of Sammy-Jo in the quiet streets of Palm Beach on Sunday night was a cruel reminder that nothing perfect lasts forever.Plans to be each other’s maid of honour, to travel the world and to grow old together were oblite..
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  • Painting the Gold Coast maroon

    Painting the Gold Coast maroon
    Waitress Tessa O'Bree loves the look of Skypoint restaurant at Q1 in Surfers Paradise after it was lit up maroon for the first day of Queensland Week on Saturday. Picture: Glenn HampsonTHE Gold Coast is still flying high from an Origin game one win and now the city will continue celebrations with Queensland Week kicking off today.Popular landmarks across the town will bleed maroon until June 12 in honour of the sunshine state’s 157th birthday, an appreciation week which acknowledges the birth of..
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  • Depp's guard tried to buy-off journo

    Depp's guard tried to buy-off journo
    Depp and Heard leave court0:12Johnny Depp and Amber Heard leave Southport Magistrates Court. JOHNNY Depp’s long-time bodyguard offered a Gold Coast Bulletin reporter money in an unsuccessful attempt to find out the identity of insiders who spilled the beans on Jack Sparrow’s marital woes while he was filming in the city. Jerry Judge, the managing director of London-based UK security and investigations company Music & Arts Security Ltd, has been shadowing and shepherding Depp for almost 15 years..
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