Your guide to what’s open this festive season
With the festive season upon us, here is your guide to what stores are open across the region. Find out more
Toowoomba
International rock legend, activist and humanitarian to visit Toowoomba
In an inspiring evening, sharing his decades of global-activism and collaboration with musical-greats for good causes, this old-time rock legend is set to visit Toowoomba. Find out how to get tickets for the fundraiser:
Vote now: Who is Toowoomba’s cutest bub for 2024?
Voting has opened to crown Toowoomba’s cutest bub of 2024 with more than 100 smiles which will melt anyone into a “googoo gaga”. Vote for your cherub here:
Man claims police mistook toy gun for real deal
A man accused of causing a crash on the Warrego Highway claimed police mistook his legal toy gun for a dangerous firearm.
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Thor Morgan’s accused murderers to both stand trial
Witness evidence proved enough to see a second person stand trial over the alleged murder of 25-year-old Toowoomba man Thor Morgan.
Man dies in fiery crash days before Christmas
A man in his 60s has been killed in a fiery two-vehicle crash north of Toowoomba just days out from Christmas, the latest fatality in a horror period on our roads.
Top council bureaucrat departs amid major leadership shake-up
Just weeks after Toowoomba council’s chief executive announced the end of his tenure, another top bureaucrat is leaving the organisation for another region.
Why the elves took CBD’s Christmas tree down early
The disappearance of an iconic feature of Toowoomba’s festive season has caused imaginative speculation online. Here is why this much-loved tree had to be returned to its North Pole home:
$1.2bn in works: 17 projects coming to Toowoomba in 2025
In what is expected to be another bumper year for the city’s development industry, more than $1bn worth of works are set to be completed or significantly advanced in 2025.
‘Makes you happy inside’: Meet Toowoomba’s hamper champions
This year, as cost-of-living hits home, young and old, businesses and religious organisations have dug deep to bring Christmas joy to those less fortunate. Meet the champions making sure no one misses out:
Ex-boxing champion threatens shoppers with spear
A man who claimed he ‘almost’ qualified for the Commonwealth Games had a woman fleeing in fear after threatening her with a spear.
Businesses short changed by dodgy shopper’s counterfeit cash
A man who only weeks ago was convicted for a violent street attack was caught using counterfeit greens to pay his way around town.
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