Toowoomba, Australia News

A skydiver in his sixties died at Crowley Vale, between Ipswich and Toowoomba in Queensland, after his parachute failed to open.

Gary Birkett, from Mitchell, north-west of Toowoomba, says the raised line that runs through the town acted as a levee during February's record flood.

COMMUNICATION breakdowns that hampered efforts during the Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods have still not been resolved, an independent report on regional telecommunications found yesterday.

GrainCorp shares soared to a four-year high after the Australian grain handler unveiled strong-than expected interim profits and raised its forecast for the full year, boosted by soaring export hopes.

Valuable research and management options about rabbits, wild dogs, feral pigs, parthenium, African lovegrass, lantana and giant rat's tail grass, will be under the spotlight in the Condamine, Burnett/Mary and SEQ Catchments Targeting Pest and Weed Series, 18 - 28 June 2012.

ALONG The Esplanade in Cairns, scores of tourism outlets tussle grimly for passing trade.

A report suggests more than 500 water bores on properties across the Queensland's southern inland will be affected by the coal seam gas industry.

VATICAN CITY, May 14 .- Pope Benedict XVI has named Monsignor Robert McGuckin to lead the Diocese of Toowoomba, Australia ' one year after the previous bishop was removed for dissenting from Catholic teaching and practice.

A man has walked free from court in Toowoomba on southern Queensland's Darling Downs after pleading guilty to threatening four teenagers with a replica gun.

TRACTOR and Machinery Association executive director Richard Lewis said the Australian farm machinery manufacturing industry was becoming a victim of its own success - on two fronts.

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"Water experts say community perceptions remain a sticking point and the public will need to be persuaded that drinking purified wastewater is a safe, viable option." Photo: Rodger Cummins THE state government will again consider introducing treated sewage into Sydney's drinking water supply as a means of meeting the city's future water needs, even ... (more)

On 13th January 2011 major flooding occurred throughout most of the Brisbane River catchment, most severely in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Creek catchment , the Bremer River catchment and in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland.

Researchers in Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs say they have made a breakthrough in fighting a pest that costs the northern wheat industry $50 million a year.

QUEENSLAND agriculture is back in business. That has been the message newly instated Agriculture Minister John McVeigh has repeatedly delivered during a whirlwind series of meetings with the state's farming representative groups since taking on his cabinet position less than a month ago.

THE white lion is not called Kimba, as you might expect, but Shaka - but he's just as impressive when he roars for his dinner.

Liberal National Party candidate Graham Quirk will be returned as Brisbane's mayor, after Labor's Ray Smith conceded defeat.