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Get ready to sweat! Cook Shire Council is excited to launch two new weekly group fitness classes at the Cooktown Events Centre, starting Wednesday 2 April. Whether you're looking to torch calories, build strength, or simply move your body in a fun and supportive...
Cook Shire Council is undertaking important refurbishment works on the Marton Swing Bridge to improve safety and extend the life of this valued community asset. The planned works include: Replacing the bridge decking Replacing the timber bridge approaches Upgrading...
Cook Shire Council wishes to inform residents and visitors of the operating hours for Council offices and facilities during the upcoming Easter long weekend. A number of Council offices, depots, and facilities will be closed from Friday, 18 April 2025 (Good Friday)...
Cook Shire Council is once again offering Free Dumping Days this April-May to help residents prepare for extreme weather. Our weather can be unpredictable, but your preparation doesn’t have to be. Take advantage of these free clean-up days (from 26 April until 11 May...
Cook Shire Council is progressing a range of important infrastructure works across Cooktown to improve the safety, usability and appearance of our streets. Here’s what’s currently underway and what you can expect over the coming weeks: Kerb and Channel Upgrades...
Boat users are reminded that there will be an exclusion zone in place on Saturday 21 June 2025, for the Cooktown Discovery Festival Fireworks display. All boat users are reminded there is an exclusion zone on Saturday 21 June from 5.30 pm-8.30 pm, for the Cooktown...
Cook Shire Council will commence works to replace a section of water main in Lakeland from Monday, 16 June 2025. The works will extend from outside the Lakeland Hotel on Foyster Drive, across Mulligan Highway to the Main Roads Depot, and continue down the highway to...
We’re not rubbish at this! Cook Shire Council’s new bin labelling program is well and truly rolling—and the results so far are wheely impressive. In a stellar effort to get our waste services fairer, safer and more sustainable, Council crews have already carried...