Gold Coast's council will temporarily close a major road through the Surfers Paradise entertainment precinct as it ...

CHANGES are afoot for the Schoolies Festival amid sustained pressure from Surfers Paradise traders to downsize the annual event. The coming changes will be the biggest in decades. Nicholas McElroy ...

As the Queensland schoolies left Surfers Paradise, a new wave of leavers form Victoria and New South Wales have begun converging on the coast for the second unofficial week of celebrations.

Schoolies reminded not to walk home alone as reports of sexual assaults in Surfers Paradise this week SEVERAL sexual assault complaints have been made over the past four days of schoolies ...

More than double the number of non-Schoolies were arrested than Schoolies in the Surfers Paradise party precinct on day four of the festivities. A total of seven male Schoolies were arrested on 15 ...

VOLUNTEER guardian angels descending on Surfers Paradise to care for incoming Schoolies say behaviour improves every year because they want to look good on social media.

Surfers Paradise Management acting chief executive Tiffany Murphy said the beach fencing would be erected from 4pm (AEST) to create a "schoolies only" zone and removed at 5am the following day.

This is an important rite of passage for many young Australians. About 20,000 school leavers are expected to party at Surfers Paradise in one of the main schoolies celebrations.