Osso Bucco Serves: 6 Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 6 hours and 10 minutes Ingredients 6 pieces osso bucco (cross-cut beef shanks with bone in) Flour for dusting 1 onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, crushed ¾ cups white wine 3 carrots, diced 1 thin eggplant, diced 2 x 400g tins crushed tomatoes ¼ cup […]

Funded through Division 4 Local Area Allocations it forms part of the City of Gold Coast’s Beach Access Program, which aims to improve access to the coast for people with disability, reduced mobility, seniors and visitors. Offering free community access, users can access the wheelchair independently via the lockbox QR code system with an instructional […]

The Pacific Airshow Gold Coast is a three-day weekend event and will run from Friday, August 14 to Sunday, August 16 featuring heart-pumping aerobatic demonstrations by the world’s finest aviators, VIP meet and greet events, social parties, family fun, licensed ticket precinct and more. It will feature some of the best civilian performers and military […]

The City of Gold Coast has strengthened its relationship with Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture, signing a new agreement that will facilitate knowledge-sharing and help establish the region’s first professional lifeguard service. The city’s Lifeguard Service and the Kanagawa Lifesaving Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding during a recent visit to Japan. The MoU builds on a […]

The state government has approved the Dreamworld Masterplan, delivering certainty for one of Queensland’s most iconic tourism destinations and paving the way for a major new mixed-use tourism and housing development that will transform the Northern Gold Coast over the coming decade. The approved 55.3-hectare masterplan covers land including and adjacent to Dreamworld and WhiteWater […]

Welcome to the first edition of The Local for the Northern Gold Coast. The Local is a monthly publication, August is the first, full of good news, and in print and online at www.thelocal.net.au You can find copies, left in bundles or dropped at cafes and restaurants, around the Northern Gold Coast from Main Beach […]

Lisa O’Neill has three children. Two sons with her first husband, both in their early 20s, and an eight-year-old daughter to her second husband. The now single mum, 54, is originally from South Africa, and headed overseas for three years at the age of 21, and then met her first husband and immigrated to Australia […]

The state government is making Queensland safer this winter, launching a statewide road safety crackdown with police set to flood Queensland’s roads during one of the busiest travel periods of the year. Operation Cold Snap – an annual high-visibility police operation aimed at reducing road trauma and saving lives – begins this Saturday, June 27 and will run throughout the June/July […]

The state government is delivering on Destination 2045, with international visitors contributing a record $8.2 billion to Queensland’s economy in the past year—17.3 per cent ahead of projections. Tourism Research Australia data shows Queensland outpacing the national average, with international visitor expenditure up 35.2 per cent year on year, compared to 20.5 per cent nationally. […]