The City of Logan has embraced its cultural diversity and produced a video featuring seven different languages to encourage refugees and migrants to learn to swim.

The culture at the Kingston Butter Factory (KBF) today is quite different to when it was established in 1907.

LGAQ welcomes steps to help address the national housing crisis and an increase in road funding but is disappointed the Federal Budget has failed to reveal an increase in local government funding.

Mayor Stewart received a special commendation recognising her prevention and awareness work in the Noosa Shire during the presentation of the third annual Alison Woolla Memorial Award.

QUEENSLAND councils have sent a strong message to the Albanese Government ahead of its Federal Budget that it must protect and enhance critical liveability programs.

Balonne Shire Council will receive a $10,000 bursary from Peak Services as winners of this year’s Butch Lenton Memorial Bush Council Innovation Award.

Queensland’s councils have called on the State Government to open up a publicly-funded housing loan scheme to help more people own or build a home in regional and remote communities.

Councils from across Queensland have voted resoundingly to call on the State Government to increase financial support to First Nations councils and their local communities.

The peak body representing Queensland’s 77 councils has welcomed the move by the Queensland Government to investigate the impact of short-term rentals on the housing crisis.

A long-term Townsville community member who has opened her home to the LGBTIQ+ community for emergency housing has been named the winner of the 2022 Alison Woolla Award.

A newspaper covering one of the most remote patches in Queensland has been announced as the 2022 winner of one of the LGAQ Journalism Award.

Day one of the 2022 LGAQ Annual Conference kicked off with a panel discussion about the success of Regional University Centres (RUC) in Queensland.

Housing, roads and funding high on the agenda for councils and their communities at the 126th LGAQ Annual Conference.

The peak body representing Queensland councils has welcomed recommendations to protect the right of elected local government representatives to speak out in support of their local communities.

Exorbitant deposit requirements imposed on Queenslanders seeking to buy a home in in rural and remote Queensland are stifling economic growth by locking prospective buyers out of the market.