Toowoomba To Host Four Top-Tier Events in February, 2014
Toowoomba’s reputation as a sports tourism hub is set to grow substantially this February. The city will host a National Rugby League pre-season trial, a Super Rugby trial, the 2014 Queensland PGA Championship and the Oceania Road Cycling Championships within weeks of each other. The St George Queensland Reds will start their 2014 Super Rugby […]
Council Connections: Week 1, January 2014
This weekly program keeping you up to date with Toowoomba Regional Council’s facilities, activities and services. Council Connections with Darren Burton Darren talks about January’s Council meetings, Australia Day celebrations in the region, joining a gym in January, the next Friends of the Toowoomba Library book sale, the return of Summer Tunes, pre-amalgamation phone numbers […]
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, […]
Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery Seeks 2014 Exhibitors
Crow’s Nest Regional Art Gallery is a venue for sharing artistic expression and the Gallery is keen to hear from exhibitors who wish to be part of its 2014 exhibition program. The Gallery is seeking exhibition applications from regional and national artists who wish to display their work during 2014. Applications are welcome from both […]
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 […]