Mullumbimby Tennis Club say they are thrilled to announce an exciting new initiative for the community: we are offering free specialist tennis coaching.
A recent discovery of six Miconia calvescens (Miconia) plants near Burringbar have led to a call for Tweed, Ballina and Byron Shire residents to keep an eye out for the plant.
Independent Byron Shire councillor, Michael Lyon, appeared in the Tweed Heads Criminal Court this morning for what turned out to be his last appearance in the matter concerning an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) that the police sought against him in August last year.
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Local cricketers are preparing for semi-finals this weekend across four grades in the wider Northern Rivers area.
In the LJ Hooker premier league the minor...
A recent discovery of six Miconia calvescens (Miconia) plants near Burringbar have led to a call for Tweed, Ballina and Byron Shire residents to keep an eye out for the plant.
With requests for music by Bizet, Paganini, Puccini, and Nat King Cole singing Irving Gordon’s Unforgettable, and poems by Banjo Patterson, Joyce Kilmer and Clare Harner, Kate Smorty had everything in place, for the time when she was not.
As I anticipate my first encounter with a tropical cyclone, I find it hard to sit still and thoughts swirl through my mind like the winds in the storm.
A government-funded study by coastal engineers into beach erosion from Byron Bay to Hastings Point warned of ongoing erosion 47 years ago, and urged governments to act to prevent further loss of property.
Volunteers and staff at community radio station Bay FM 99.9 are celebrating a return to regular programming after power outages cut services leading up to and during ex-Cyclone Alfred.
Wonderful!