Queensland State Rose Garden Stage 2 Opening
Queensland’s State Rose Garden in Newtown Park, Toowoomba & Toowoomba Regional Council officially opened Stage 2 on Saturday, 21st October, 2017, commencing at 10am in Newtown Park.  Five Gardens were opened: 1 Heritage Roses in Australia Collection This collection is from part of David Ruston’s Original Collection which consists of old roses, often found […]
USQ Festival of Astronomy & Space NASA Visit
NASA’s Dr Douglas Hudgins will present at USQ’s Festival of Astronomy & Space Day 7 on Monday 9 October, with a presentation entitled ‘Are We Alone? NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program and the Search for Earth 2.0’.The public talk will run from 5.30pm †7pm. Dr Hudgins is the Program Scientist for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program and TESS mission […]
Lost Trades Fair 2017 At Cobb + Co Museum, Toowoomba
Master artisans and traditional tradesmen and women with hundreds of combined years of training are demonstrating and sharing their skills and talent for heritage trades at the first Lost Trades Fair to be held in Queensland. You are invited to come and see trades being practised, just as they always have been, but usually behind […]
Legends Of League Stop Off At Oakey Hospital
As part of the Legends of League rugby league event being held in Oakey this weekend, a number of former representative players will visit the Oakey Hospital this Thursday 5 October. The community is invited to share lunch with the players at the Legends of League community barbecue together with the staff, residents and visitors to […]
Toowoomba Region Libraries Shutdown
All Toowoomba Region Libraries will be closed from 12 noon Saturday, 30th September to Tuesday 3rd October for an upgrade to our library management system. All libraries will be upgraded to SPYDUS 10, which features a new discovery tool that enables patrons to search all collections within the one search. All libraries will be closed […]
USQ Technologies Leading To A Revolution In Agriculture
Through continued innovation and productivity improvements, Australian agricultural production was once increasing rapidly †however more recent times have seen productivity growth slowed, commodity prices remaining stagnant and input costs continuing to rise.  With the need to do more with less, are humans limiting potential? University of Southern Queensland (USQ) researchers are exploring new […]
2017 Toowoomba Clivia Show
See one of the best collections of flowering multi-coloured Clivias on display at the Toowoomba Clivia Show in the TAFE Horticulture Pavilion. Clivias in bloom, seedlings and seeds on sale. Admission is only a gold coin donation towards St Vincent’s Hospital, Toowoomba.