The golden shores that attract millions of visitors every year to the southeast corner of Queensland have been left battered and bruised at the hands of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred.

The Coffs Coast community is rallying around a local ... suffered the heart attack at Macauleys Beach, Coffs Harbour on Monday. It is not clear whether the medical episode happened in the surf.

After losing their father in a sickening kerbside fight in 2013, four Coffs Harbour children have now been left orphaned ...