Welcome to the City of Townsville

Kerbside refuse service runs 365 days a year, regardless of public holidays.

Remember to have your bin kerbside by 6am on your collection day.

In July 2019 Townsville North Queensland will host the inaugural Northern Fringe Festival running alongside the Northern Australian Festival of Arts (NAFA).

Performers and artists can submit their events to be part of the Festival until Friday 10 May, 2019.

The School Holiday Guide – 2019 Easter Edition is out now!

With so many FREE and low cost activities to choose from, parents and kids alike will be spoilt with choice.

Now Open!

Exhibitor and Food Vendor applications are now open for the 2019 Pet Expo being held on Sunday 9 June at Jezzine Barracks.

Applications close Midnight, Sunday 5 May.

This transformative masterplan will deliver a number of large-scale infrastructure projects across Townsville.

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!

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.

Subscribe to Council's eNewsletters and stay up to date with what's happening around Townsville.

Build your very own hologram using simple materials and bring it to life with specially designed holographic videos. You'll be amazed at how realistic they look!

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.

Donna Beningfield’s Migrating Souls comprises of over fifty works on slate tiles and canvas, depicting local personalities and one of their many past lives.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Friday 15 March - Sunday 28 April 2019.

Learn to digitise your organisation’s slides, negatives, photographs, papers and books to conservation standards during this free class. A trainer will teach you how to identify the best format and device to use in our Digitisation Lounge to preserve and save your precious materials.

CityLibraries Flinders Street

Free though bookings required

Join us for the dawn service at the Thuringowa Cenotaph or the Townsville City Dawn Service will at ANZAC Park Cenotaph early on the morning of Anzac Day.

Submit your events for free!

Visit What’s On Townsville - to enter your community and sporting events, shows, exhibition, workshop, fundraiser, markets and a range of other events.

Getting active doesn’t have to be hard, or cost a lot of money. Visit our Active Townsville site for information and links to our upcoming events.

Ready to move on from Baby Rhyme Time? Not quite ready for Storytime? Come and join Toddler Time! Develop your toddler's concentration and early literacy skills with fun songs, dance and a story.

Visit our What's On Townsville guide for session times and locations.

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.

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.

With over 300 parks throughout the region, now is the perfect time to explore your local park.

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

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!

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.

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