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April 19, 2024

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Highway crash heading north from Byron

A crash on the Pacific Motorway heading north from the Byron Shire on Monday morning reduced traffic to a single lane around 11am.

Tweed Council wants your ideas on future sports facilities

Tweed Council is looking for feedback from residents about future plans for sport and recreation in the area.

Teenager arrested following an alleged stabbing

A teenager remains in police custody following an alleged stabbing at a church in Sydney’s south-west overnight.

D-day for Bruns pod village pesticide treatment

After two delays, the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA) will be treating Bruns emergency pods with a pesticide treatment, despite some strong opposition from flood-affected residents.

WATER Northern Rivers says Rous County Council is wrong

WATER Northern Rivers Alliance says despite decades of objection, Rous County Council have just commissioned yet another heritage and biodiversity study in the Rocky Creek valley, between Dunoon and The Channon, in the heart of the Northern Rivers.

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Shopping Centres Scare Me

I feel trapped. There isn’t a single time I attend where I don’t check my proximity to the exits, or imagine what I’d do if there was a fire, or worse, a shooter. The sense of being enclosed is unnatural, I can’t tell what time of day it is, I lose my sense of direction. It’s designed to be disorienting. It feels otherworldly. And never in a good way. They are designed to make you stay longer. They are by design, disorienting.

Where normal families accumulate dead electronic appliances and broken plastic replicas of things that used to last forever, it seems the good denizens of Brunswick Heads have a knack for finding just the kinds of items in their attics that will attract a crowd, year after year.

How else to explain the evergreen popularity of the Old and Gold festival, held annually on the coldest weekend of winter?

A sideline highlight is the gruelling marbles championship, where once again Brunswick Heads School reigned supreme, with Jordan O’Hearn and Sam Pfeil clutching the pot of gold at the end of it all.


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  1. Great story and brilliant photos! We dropped in late in the afternoon – saw a few people who looked like they’d shopped themselves blissful!

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