Rising costs and reduced government grants have delivered a $29 million hit to Fraser Coast Regional Council’s finances.
Returning to Queens Park and Portside precinct in Maryborough for its 15-year anniversary, this year the much-loved event showcases the depth of Maryborough’s history and ‘Storytelling through time’.
Fraser Coast ratepayers will save about $426,000 a year following a Council decision to consolidate its waste facility network and close smaller, inefficient transfer stations.
Six Hervey Bay roads will be made safer and smoother as part of an $800,000 Fraser Coast Regional Council asphalt resurfacing project that gets underway this month.
Artists are being rallied to submit works for the inaugural Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize. Entries are now being accepted until 21 June 2023.
A piece of Queensland shipwreck history, illegally removed from a site on K’gari (Fraser Island) and handed into the Fraser Coast Regional Council, will be sent to the Museum of Tropical Queensland.
Olympic swimmer Lisa Curry will reflect on her amazing life and the experiences that shaped her when she speaks at the Fraser Coast Libraries Lines in the Sand Premier Event later this year.
The demolition of Maryborough homes bought back under the ‘Voluntary Home Buy-Back program’ has started. The material from the homes will be recycled and the blocks developed into parkland.
The Fraser Coast Regional Council will renew leases with the Tiaro and District Landcare Group and the Maryborough Wide Bay Burnett Historical Society.
Fraser Coast sporting clubs and community groups will share in more than $88,000 in Council grants to improve their equipment and facilities.
The Fraser Coast is taking steps towards reconciliation by recognising the Indigenous lives lost and the Butchulla People’s connection to country.
The safety of students and teachers crossing Kent Street between the Maryborough High School campuses has been boosted with the installation of electronic speed signs.
The artists behind four new exhibitions at Gatakers Artspace in Maryborough will unveil their new shows on April 21.
Former rugby union international and now Queensland Representative Rugby Union Coach, Maia Tua-Davidson, will lead two Active Inclusion Workshops.
The water play area at Maryborough Aquatic Centre will be closed for refurbishment from Monday, April 17 until the end of May.
