Channel 7 axes popular nightly Gold Coast news bulletin - with last show to go to air on Thursday night

Channel 7 has axed its Gold Coast news bulletin in the latest shake-up at the network, with with the last broadcast to air on Thursday night.

The station will keep its bureau at the Gold Coast but the output will be included in a statewide news report at 6pm.

Some staff have been offered positions in the Brisbane bureau, while non-editorial departments including sales are expected to continue unchanged.

The shutdown of the local Gold Coast edition, which ran at 5.30pm ahead of the metro bulletin, follows a raft of well-publicised redundancies at the Seven Network including popular Queensland anchor Sharyn Ghidella and weatherman Paul Burt.

Ghidella spent 17 years with the Seven Network and her run as presenter of the Brisbane bulletin alongside Bill McDonald and later Max Futcher saw it rise to the top of the rankings.

She was fired in July this year after getting a call while at the hairdresser and has since moved to Channel 10 where she presents the 5pm Queensland bulletin.

Burt, who joined Seven in 2013, filed weather stories from the Gold Coast and gained a cult following, often appearing on the beach or in crosses during wild weather such as cyclones and torrential rain.

He was also let go in the July round of cost cutting, along with the Gold Coast bureau's chief of staff, with one insider saying at the time that 'it would make it pretty hard to put the bulletin together'.

A statement from the Seven Network said the move would not diminish its news coverage.

'Seven's Gold Coast news operation will be streamlined to run as a multi-faceted bureau, with its award-winning stories and hot button issues to be given more prominence in the nightly metropolitan news at 6pm,' a spokesperson said.

'Gold Coast viewers will receive the full hour of Seven's Afternoon News at 4pm, the full hour of The Chase Australia at 5pm, followed by 7NEWS live at 6pm.'

Anthony De Ceglie, 7NEWS director of news and current affairs and Seven West Media editor-in-chief, confirmed the bureau would not be closed.

'This is about bringing together and modernising both our Gold Coast local news and Brisbane's unrivalled 6pm bulletin hosted by Max Futcher and Sarah Greenhalgh,' he said.

'This change in direction in no way diminishes our commitment to news coverage on the Gold Coast. Quite the opposite.

'For viewers, it means more people across the region can get home from work, school and play in time for 6pm, and the issues and stories that matter to them most will have an even stronger voice in the all-important nightly news.'

An email sent to staff said the ditching of the 5.30pm local edition would 'turbocharge' the bureau's ability to input crucial Gold Coast stories into the metropolitan news bulletin.