A large mulch fire burns on the northern Gold Coast. Photo: Glenn Hampson A Queensland Fire and Emergency Service spokeswoman said firefighters were first alerted to the incident last night.

Don't miss out on the headlines from Gold Coast. Followed categories will be ... blazes which broke out in 50,000 tonnes of sugar cane mulch at the Rocky Point sugar mill at Woongoolba on Saturday ...

A fifth of all Norfolk Island pines assessed on the Gold Coast in the wake of ex-Tropical ... difficult to work with and is more useful as mulch," they said in a statement. Griffith University ...

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