The Minns government says it's handed down a budget which locks in major funding for North Coast health infrastructure, alongside targeted cost-of-living relief designed for regional households and disaster recovery, as locals continue to face higher costs.
Over the coming weeks, Tweed Shire Council will present a flood resilience series, which looks at how 'Tweed's story is different from the standard flood recovery narrative and what happened next'.
Israel is expediting legislation to plan and legalise 69 outposts, allocating over 100-million shekels (about US$34-million).
Israel’s Defence Ministry is...
Residents are holding firm against a proposal to develop State Significant Farmland (SSF) near the Tweed Valley Hospital at Cudgen, after the Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP) held a public meeting on Friday 19 June around the Planning Proposal for Cudgen Connection (PP-2023-2669-Cudgen Connection).
Byron Shire Council has moved a step closer to seeking a special rate rise, unanimously endorsing a community engagement program that will form a key part of any future application to increase rates above the state-imposed cap.
Nearly a hundred women and girls were seen powdering their noses and much more at Brunswick Heads on Sunday for local celebrations of the global Holi Festival of colour.
Local community group Together She Thrives inc. organised the event which featured the transformation of white clad revelers into walking rainbows thanks to dust clouds of organic coloured flour.
Overhead, skies kindly paused the rain just long enough for the festivities to happen and for The Echo to capture the colour.
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Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.
The NSW government says it has secured a site for a future high school in Pottsville, delivering on its commitment to future-proof public education for the growing Tweed community in the Northern Rivers of NSW.
The Byron Bay Herb Nursery continues to create constructive pathways to achievement with twelve students from Byron Bay Herb Nursery’s disability support program recently graduating with a Certificate II in Horticulture.
This year's Love Lennox Festival went off with a bang and a bark as the much anticipated Dogly Fun Show took over the main stage area for plenty of K9 fun.
Suzanne Whiteman from the Council of Intellectual Disability (CID) says there will be free workshops in Ballina tomorrow (14 May) and Friday (15 May), with a particular focus on women.
Brunswick Surf Life Saving Club (BSLSC) has had a major rebuild of their facilities, however, unforeseen costs in the development have left the club short of operating funds this summer and they are asking for help from the community.
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