Events
Toowoomba Mayor Urges Preparation For Heatwave Conditions
Toowoomba Region Mayor Cr Paul Antonio is urging residents to take precautions over the coming days amid predictions of a heatwave. Toowoomba has already sweltered through one extreme day with the official temperature hitting 38.3 degrees last Sunday and Cr Antonio encouraged residents to be extra vigilant and keen an eye on neighbours, the elderly, […]
Free 2014 Summer Tunes To Start January 5th, 2014
You can keep the holiday revelry alive by enjoying Toowoomba Regional Council’s free, eight-week Summer Tunes program starting on Sunday, January 5. The following seven weeks will see performers across pop, rock, Celtic, country, jazz, and big band genres. For the first time in 2014 the program expands to Oakey, Crow’s Nest, Pittsworth and Millmerran […]
Council Connections: Week 4, December 2013
The weekly program keeping you up to date with Toowoomba Regional Council’s facilities, activities and services. Council Connections with Darren Burton Darren talks about Council’s New Year’s Eve fireworks, waste collection services over the holidays, paying bills online, recycling responsibly, artist exhibitions called for the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, a free FOODcents workshop, the TRC […]
The Silly Season Is Not A License To Litter!
Queenslanders are among the least focused when it comes to keeping Australia beautiful, and have plenty of room for improvement this silly season as our country faces its biggest litter onslaught of the year. With the Keep Australia Beautiful National Litter Index paying close attention to our national tally through December, each state including Queensland […]
Police Target Highways In Pre-Christmas Blitz
Every police motorcycle in the state as well as marked and unmarked police vehicles will be deployed on highways across Queensland today as more drivers set off on Christmas holidays. Road Policing Command is co-ordinating the one-day blitz which will focus on some of the state’s busiest highways including the M-1, Bruce, Cunningham and Warrego […]
Toowoomba Regional Council Offices Closing Early For Christmas Party December 20th
Toowoomba Regional Council advises that its customer service counters will close from 12 noon to 5pm on Friday, December 20th to allow staff to attend a Council Christmas celebration. Customers can access an after-hours emergency service during this time. Customer service operations will return to normal from 8.30am on Monday, December 23. Council facilities such […]
Toowoomba’s Clifford Street Opens As Four Lanes
A long-standing inner-city road project was opened to traffic for the first time when Toowoomba Regional Council unveiled a new-look Clifford Street which has been upgraded to four lanes between Margaret and Russell Streets and forms a vital connection as part of the city’s Outer Circulating Road project. Toowoomba Regional Council Mayor Paul Antonio has […]
Job Prospects A Christmas Boon For Retrenched Peabody Workers
Ostwald Bros will be making Christmas a little brighter for the 200 Wilkie Creek coal workers made redundant by US coal giant Peabody Energy.The resources and infrastructure services group has stepped in to offer some hope to the workers faced with voluntary redundancies following the recent announcement by Peabody Energy to close its Wilkie Creek […]