After days of requests, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has made the trip up the Toowoomba Range to visit victims of the escalating youth crime crisis, defending her apparent absence from the city as she asks to hear locals’ own accounts.
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.
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