2024 Mayoral Prayer Breakfast proceeds aid Safer Toowoomba Regional Partnerships’ Community Connect events

Safer Toowoomba Regional Partnerships Inc. (STRP), a regional charity, today (June 14, 2024) received a welcome funding boost from the proceeds of this year’s Toowoomba Mayoral Prayer Breakfast that...

TRC recommends lowering Cressbrook Dam water level for Cressbrook Dam Safety Improvement Project

Toowoomba Regional Council today (11 June, 2024) supported a recommendation to lower Cressbrook Dam’s water level to enable the Cressbrook Dam Safety Improvement Project to safely proceed. Toowoomb...

Nominate by July 31 to join TRC’s 2025 Youth Leaders

Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) is encouraging young people aged between 14 and 24 to apply for the 2025 Youth Leaders Program. Applications must be submitted by July 31. TRC Community Development, ...

TRC endorses new Advisory Committee, external group representatives

Toowoomba Regional Council has endorsed the appointment of Councillors to Advisory Committees, working groups, industry bodies and community organisations. Toowoomba Region Mayor Cr Geoff McDonald sa...

Greenmount Waste Management Facility re-opening to public on June 4

Greenmount’s Waste Management Facility will re-open to the public from Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Toowoomba Regional Council Waste Services Councillor, Cr Melissa Taylor, said the rehabilitation of the...

Land for Wildlife South East Queensland wins at LGMA Awards

The Land for Wildlife South East Queensland program has won the 2024 Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA) Award for Excellence in the Collaboration category. Toowoomba Region Parks and Recreati...

Planning progresses for Toowoomba Escarpment Mountain Bike Trails

Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) has unanimously agreed to progress renewed planning and seek external funding for the proposed Toowoomba Escarpment Mountain Bike Trails Project. At this week’s May ...

TRC endorses steps to amend parking Local Law; seek public feedback

Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) this week (May 28, 2024) endorsed the process for amending a parking Subordinate Local Law, with notices for public consultation to be advised in coming weeks. TRC En...

TRC endorses new Councillor portfolio responsibilities

Toowoomba Regional Council this week (May 28, 2024) endorsed the new Councillor portfolio structure that will guide strategic decision making for the next four years. Toowoomba Region Mayor Cr Geoff ...

Council appoints new Water and Waste General Manager

Jaek Passier has this week been announced as the new Water and Waste General Manager at Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC). TRC CEO Brian Pidgeon said Mr Passier had been acting in the role for several...

TRC endorses continuing Toowoomba City Aerodrome operations; to review leases, fees

Toowoomba Regional Council today (Tuesday, May 28) unanimously endorsed a motion to continue operating the Toowoomba City Aerodrome. Council also endorsed undertaking a review to ensure leases, fees ...

Electric waste collection vehicle now in service in Toowoomba

An electric waste collection vehicle will be in service on the streets of Toowoomba after an almost 12-month manufacturing period, with Volvo Trucks building it from the ground up for J.J. Richards sp...

QTC affirms TRC credit rating as Sound

In April 2024, Queensland Treasury Corporation completed the Credit Review process for Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC). TRC’s credit rating has been affirmed as Sound with a Neutral outlook. Toowo...

Postcard art connects Toowoomba, Albury artists in Rosalie Gallery exhibition

Digital duo Lisa Clarke and Ben Tupas have traded their predilection for modern technology by fashioning an exhibition from postcards they sent each other in recent years in a new exhibition at Goombu...

Kerry Harvey’s Crows Nest Gallery painting exhibition captures nuances of light, shade

Self-taught Darling Downs artist Kerry Harvey is exploring the nuances of light and shade in his first solo exhibition, Shadows and Reflections, which will be on display at Crows Nest Gallery from May...

Have your say, TRC community survey now open

Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) is encouraging residents to have their say on Council services, activities and performance by participating in a community survey which is now open. Toowoomba Region ...

Toowoomba hosts ‘Operation Home on the Range’

Toowoomba Regional Council has today hosted a major joint Local Government and Police disaster management exercise testing the capability of various Local Disaster Management Groups (LDMGs) from acros...

Table Top Mountain Walk to be closed for landslip remediation works

Toowoomba Regional Council is closing the city’s Table Top Mountain Walk, and ancillary access walks, including Road Reserve Trail and Stevenson Street Trail, to public access from Monday, 24 June t...

Trust in God’s view from coach’s box, Cameron Butler tells 30th Toowoomba Mayoral Prayer Breakfast

Don’t discard your confidence, as it brings a rich reward and keep faith in God’s higher view from the ‘coach’s box’, noted sports chaplain Cameron Butler told the 400-plus people attending ...

TRC advising residents to plan trips as Bridge, Holberton Streets intersection works start

Residents are being advised to plan their journeys near the Bridge and Holberton Streets intersection in Toowoomba with multiple works projects starting in the vicinity this month (May 2024). Toowoom...