The Federal Government’s Joint Agency Drought Taskforce was wound up at the end of last month, a situation that has left local councils across Australia querying a possible $1.1 billion discrepancy in future funding.
Toowoomba Regional Council is encouraging Yarraman area residents to have a chat at a Yarraman Customer Service pop-up centre being run at Yarraman Library on Thursday (July 11).
Toowoomba Regional Council is inviting comments from residents on a draft strategy which aims to provide a blueprint for “recognising, engaging and supporting” young people aged 12 to 24.
Cherbourg Council issued a “boil water alert” on Thursday for the township following increased turbidity in the town water supply.
Toowoomba Regional Council has revealed it spent almost $1 million investigating 122 complaints about misconduct against staff and councillors since the March 2016 Council elections.
Work to determine the true condition of Gympie Regional Council’s gravel road network began on Tuesday.
Residents have until 5:00pm on Monday, July 8, to lodge objections to a realignment of the South Burnett Regional Council’s six divisions.
Applications for Toowoomba Regional Council’s next round of community grants open on Monday (July 1).
Three Gympie councillors – all representing rural divisions – voted against Council’s 2019-20 Budget on Wednesday, but it was adopted unchanged anyway.
Kingaroy Library will be hosting an extra special Story Time next Tuesday (July 2) at Kingaroy Town Hall.
South Burnett vets are again taking part in RSPCA Queensland’s statewide desexing campaign, dubbed “Operation Wanted”.
A bid to freeze the South Burnett’s rural rates at last year’s level failed to win majority support at Monday’s Council Budget meeting
The Planning and Environment Court has removed a major obstacle to the proposed construction of a 130ha solar farm on the outskirts of Kingaroy.
Work will start this week to rehabilitate the site of last month’s tragic Bunya Highway crash.
South Burnett Regional Council will be pushed into a $1.539 million deficit this year because of a revaluation of the region’s road network.
Toowoomba Regional Council ratepayers will pay an extra $92.88 a year on average after Council handed down its 2019-20 Budget on Monday afternoon.
Most South Burnett ratepayers can expect to see an increase of about $2 per week in their rates notices this year, but some rural ratepayers could face rises of up to 30 per cent after the Council handed down its Budget on Monday.
The turn-around time for plumbing work applications to the South Burnett Regional Council will be halved to 10 days from next month.
South Burnett Regional Council has voted to establish a Tourism Advisory Committee to provide input into the Council’s regional tourism strategy.
Beef production was the focus of the South Burnett Community Agriculture Network’s latest quarterly meeting, held in Kingaroy last week.
