Noosa is a popular tourist and retail centre on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. The town blends international sophistication with the laid back attitude of a small town ...

WATCHING the "river rats” (local kids) on Noosa River is a scene Andy 'Phippsy' Phipps relishes, especially as he reaches the twilight of his fishing years.

Noosa Shire Council began a review of the 2004 Noosa River Plan in 2017, with an advisory committee appointed in 2021 after "extensive consultation".

Healthy Waterways has released its annual report card, with the Noosa River scoring an A-minus, Pumicestone Passage a B-minus and Maroochydore and Mooloolah Rivers C-plus.

THE fact that the river achieved an A-minus rating last year in the Healthy Land and Water Annual Report Card, equal to the best in Southeast Queensland, has not come about by chance.

Noosa River's key biodiversity indicators, its sand and mud-dwelling species, have taken a third to two-thirds hit over a 20 year period. Read Today's Paper Tributes & Notices. Rewards.

WASTE pump-outs for boaties using the Noosa River have only been used once and twice respectively in "a long time”, a meeting was told on Friday.

Commercial and recreational river users say an ambitious plan to manage the future of the Noosa River, could pave the way for powered boats to be restricted in the future.