Papua New Guinean police have confirmed that armed gunmen, hold up in a remote part of the border region of the country, have released a female hostage while a Queensland university employee remains captive.
With Australia’s newest low-cost airline set to begin flights from Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport in the coming months, the Garden City’s business community are excited for a Bonza boost to the economy.
A 16-year-old has suffered serious injuries and may lose her arm after she was shot at a Toowoomba hotel. The person who police allege fired the gun has now appeared in court.
Thinking he was doing the right thing, a man has attended a southwest Queensland police station to surrender a grenade he found, forcing the evacuation of the building.
UPDATE: After a woman to hospitalised following a single-vehicle rollover south of Toowoomba, police have appealed for information to locate a second vehicle involved in the crash.
Known across the country for the Carnival of Flowers and picture-perfect gardens, Toowoomba can now lay claim to being one of Australia’s most welcoming towns. Here’s why.
A 43-year-old was the occupier of a Highfields home that contained a cache of guns, ammo and explosives and led to a siege with police. He’s now been kept in custody.
The teen daughter of a Roma shearer, who was killed along with his partner and their infant girl in a horror crash outside Toowoomba, has described him as an “amazing dad”.
A man armed with a machete robbed a Newtown hotel of an undisclosed amount of money, with police appealing for the public’s help to locate the assailant. Watch the CCTV here.
Police have confirmed a one-year-old girl was among a family of three from Roma killed in one of two separate collisions involving trucks on the Warrego Highway just outside of Toowoomba.
Original URL: https://www.thechronicle.com.au/journalists/jarrard-potter/page/6