Historic Toowoomba dunny to return to rightful place, brick by brick and other top stories

Historic Toowoomba dunny to return to rightful place, brick by brick

Toowoomba Regional Council in 2013 spent $107,000 carefully dismantling and storing the heritage-listed toilet block in Russell Street to make way for a new ring road in central Toowoomba. Toowoomba's ring road is complete and the city's famous brick ... >> view original

Toowoomba sister killer James McGrane loses parole bid

James McGrane was aged 17 when he raped and murdered his older sister Dianne at Hodgson Vale, south of Toowoomba, in 1986 in circumstances described by the sentencing judge as horrific. He bound and gagged the 21-year-old before sexually ... >> view original

New Toowoomba ghost video emerges

A NEW video has emerged of a "ghost" in Toowoomba which went viral last week. Paranormal investigators Toowoomba Ghost Chasers uploaded the video and said the anonymous Toowoomba resident who submitted the video had captured the footage on ... >> view original

Garden City blooming for Toowoomba florist

FOR Toowoomba florist Sally Harvey, there is no better place on Earth than the Garden City. Mrs Harvey owns Blooming Gorgeous on the corner of Hume and Herries Sts and when The Chronicle caught up with her she was getting over what had been a ... >> view original

Judges go gaga over Toowoomba woman's newborn snaps

TOOWOOMBA photographer Sarah Gage is ecstatic to have placed second at an international newborn photography competition. Ms Gage entered the black and white photograph of Claire Hinze to the Child Photography Competition and was announced as ... >> view original

Spooky experience sparks ghost hobby

PERSONAL experiences with the paranormal encouraged Kylie Samuels and Katie Harvey to start exploring the supernatural. The paranormal investigators created a Facebook page called Toowoomba Ghost Chasers, dedicated to their bizarre findings. >> view original

Second Range Crossing gets Labor go-ahead

Range crossing on trackQueensland Country Life >> view original

Council to endorse its Toowoomba flood studies today

Council launches program to reduce flood impactsThe Satellite >> view original

Nepal leader launches Project Compassion in Toowoomba

CARITAS Australia's major fundraising campaign Project Compassion has been launched at an event at St Patrick's Cathedral. The event started with a mass led by Bishop Robert McGuckin. Almost 50 students from Catholic schools across the diocese were ... >> view original

Toowoomba businessman calls for CBD multi-level car parks amid fears walk-in ...

A Toowoomba business owner in southern Queensland is urging the local council to do more to improve parking facilities in the CBD, saying walk-in trade for many shops has dropped by up to 70 per cent. Late last year, a council trial to cut back free ... >> view original