Welcome to the City of Townsville

NAFA School Holiday Guide – Winter 2019 edition is available now to download.

With so many low-cost and no-cost activities on offer, Townsville’s youth won’t have a moment to spare.

Townsville Dashboards is a digital platform to access high quality, current data and information about Townsville, informing and enabling the Townsville community and those with an interest in investing in the region.

Applications for the second round of RADF Grant funding opens
1 June 2019 at 12am and closes 1 July 2019 at 11:59pm

The Virgin Australia Supercars Championship returns to Townsville this July for the Watpac Townsville 400. Council is offering businesses and locals the chance to join in the action-packed weekend by entering one of our competitions and meeting the drivers at the Watpac Townsville 400 Supercruise.

New water conservation measures are now in place across Townsville.

Residents can now use sprinklers and automatic irrigation from 5pm to 8am three days a week on the odds and evens system.

Everybody has a story to tell.

Write a story on the theme ‘be brave, be bold, be brilliant’ and win!

Entries close 5pm Saturday 3 August.

The Right to Information Act 2009 gives you the right to access and amend information held by public section agencies in QLD.

Find out what you can and can't access!

A career with Council offers challenging and rewarding work.

You might be surprised at the range of services the council provides and supports - explore our current available vacancies.

Bring a blanket and cosy up under the stars and raintrees……for the FREE screening of Christopher Robin.

Join Winnie the Pooh and the gang as they help Christopher Robin remember what is like to be happy again, from 6.30pm Friday 28 at Riverway Oval.

Music in the City is back!
Bring your friends and enjoy lunch in the shade at the Perfume Gardens every Friday in May, June and July.

Free live entertainment with different local artists every Friday, and weekly prizes to be won!

Visit What’s On for more information.

Council is offering free microchipping to currently registered dogs and approved cats.

The event will take place on Saturday 22 June between 8-11 am at Rasmussen PCYC.

Discover and learn about the simple ways to make your home and garden more sustainable.
Sunday 23 June 8:30 am - 1:30 pm

The landscapes of Unfamiliar Theatre / Unknown Stage are the landscapes of not knowing. They are conversations between opposing painterly forces and capture an engagement with a subject whose form is determined in part by the consciousness by which it is observed.
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery - 21 June - 11 August

If you are 12-18 years old, are a budding artist, interested in art or just want to place to hang out, Loud Lounge on Monday afternoons is the place for you.

NAFA School Holiday Guide – Winter 2019 edition is available now to download.

With so many low-cost and no-cost activities on offer, Townsville’s youth won’t have a moment to spare.

Join us in a hands on session where a facilitator will show you the basics of how to use a 3D printer.

CityLibraries Thuringowa Central

Free, though bookings required.

Discover Townsville from its humble beginnings.

Townsville has four botanic gardens: Anderson Gardens, Palmetum, Queens Gardens and Dan Gleeson Gardens and they are a beautiful sight to behold. Visit them today!

The main aim of Sister City contact is to create friendship and understanding between peoples and to lay a foundation of goodwill and exchange for future generations.

Visit our Sister Cities page for more details.

Image: Hwaseong Fortress, Suwon - Japan

Street Art as an important factor in creating a vibrant and lively city centre. Contributing to placemaking and urban living transformation.

Image - Leans Mother Earth 2017, street art mural painted in Odgen St, Townsville

We have three library branches and a mobile library so come in and explore your library.

The 15-hectare heritage precinct commemorates the military and Aboriginal heritage of the Kissing Point headland through 32 specially commissioned public artworks, extensive interpretive signage and the restoration of significant elements of the Kissing Point Fort complex. Large-scale landscaping works have also opened up the area for public use.

Council has a range of sports and leisure facilities to suit every taste including boating and fishing locations, pools, cricket, AFL, skateboard parks and more.

Throughout the Townsville region we have over 300 parks and open space areas, four botanics gardens, a great many walkways and bikeways throughout the city and surrounds and a variety of camping and caravan locations to suit everyone.