Council’s 2023/24 dog registration statistics reveal there are 1,743 Staffordshire Terriers on the Fraser Coast – making them the region’s top breed!
Council and the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee encourage residents to get involved in the annual ‘Find a Frog in February’ initiative by venturing outdoors and finding frogs.
Just over $4 million will be pumped into infrastructure upgrades at Urraween Water Pumping Station to improve the reliability of Hervey Bay’s water supply.
Fraser Coast residents have been given the green light to beautify their nature strips with plantings in front of their properties.
It’s time to get creative and design a bookmark in the Fraser Coast Libraries’ Design-a-Bookmark competition.
Smoke testing will begin this month in Hervey Bay, Maryborough and Burrum Heads to help identify the sources of stormwater and groundwater leaking into the sewerage network.
The Fraser Coast Bicycle User Group will receive a $30,000 boost to continue their on-the-ground work activating the Mary to Bay Rail Trail, which stretches from Maryborough to the Urangan Pier.
The Fraser Coast Regional Council is overseeing a $6.1 million sewer relining and manhole refurbishment program in Local Government Areas across the Wide Bay Burnett Region.
Marine research to protect the Fraser Coast’s endangered sea turtle has received a major funding boost, as scientists examine a potential link between the turtle’s habitat health and a mystery disease
The transformation of Hervey Bay’s city centre is officially underway, with the first sod being turned to mark the start of construction of the new Hervey Bay Library and Council Administration Centre
More than $7 million will be spent upgrading Fraser Coast water and sewage treatment plants.
The car park between the Hervey Bay PCYC and the Hervey Bay Library building will be extended to provide more parking spaces ahead of the construction of a new Hervey Bay City Centre community hub.
The final stage of the Scarness caravan park upgrade and the first stage of the Burrum Heads caravan park redevelopment will start within weeks.
New change rooms and an improved enclosure for the Hervey Bay Aquatic Centre 25-metre pool are among the works occurring in the first stage of a long-term upgrade to the centre.
A movie screening and display wall, pergolas, shade trees and benches are among the initiatives proposed in a draft masterplan for the Kent Street green space and former Maryborough Baby Clinic.