Aslan Shand

Balancing the needs of a diverse community is always a challenge but it is one that owners of the Eltham Hotel Matt Rabbidge and Luke Sullivan, just 15 minutes from Lismore, are determined to do following complaints about loud music at the pub. 

The intersection of housing, interest rate rises and food and how food security can be achieved for the Northern Rivers was under discussion yesterday in Ballina at a roundtable that sought to understand the future of sustainable food systems in the region. 

NSW Labor's Planning and Agriculture ministers Paul Scully and Tara Moriarty have failed to confirm their commitment to State Significant Farmland (SSF) at Cudgen Plateau today. 

The rezoning of the State Significant Farmland to build the Tweed Valley Hospital on the Cudgen Plateau near Kingscliff split the community and ultimately came with an ‘iron clad’ promise that no more SSF would be rezoned. That promise is about to be pout to the test.

A Development Application for the historic ‘Pacific Pines’ site at Boundary Creek in Broadwater is currently ‘on exhibition’ with Richmond Valley Council and locals have raised concerns over the development of the site due to its significant historical flooding. 

Tomorrow night participants at REDinc in Mullumbimby will be putting on their ‘one night only’ Art Expo that is open to the public from 6-8pm at 22 Tincogan Street, Mullumbimby.

MAAS, the developers of the legacy or zombie DA that has reared its head in Tringa Street, Tweed Heads on the Cobaki Estuary of Tweed River has now referred their DA modification, to relocate their access road, under the EPBC Act.

An impending pest treatment at the Brunswick Heads emergency accommodation pod sites has residents raising their concerns over the use of pesticides.

Residential zones in significant portions of coastal towns in Tweed and Byron Shires are now dominated by non-hosted short-term rental accommodation (STRA), removing much-needed...

Prior to the rain there were many people who had already had to start buying in water as their tanks and alternative water sources ran dry.

Did you know that sewers need to ‘breathe’? The sewerage system quietly deals with all those little presents we deliver via a quick flush of the toilet, but it needs a little fresh air for effective processing.

Students are calling for everyone to come out in support of the School Strikes 4 Climate this Friday, November 17 at 10am in Railway Park, Byron Bay.

It is time for a new take on the Wild West with Drama All Sorts who are putting on Big Trouble in Little Town on Wednesday, 15 and 22 November in Brunswick Heads. 

It has been a challenging five years for most people in the Northern Rivers, from drought to the Black Summer fires of 2019/20 followed by the pandemic and then the 2022 floods.

The Darling Muffs of May have launched a women’s health initiative with a bit of fun thrown in.

From the protests over the development of Bayside’s Wallum Estate at Brunswick Heads to local housing forums and demands for housing for all, the challenge facing us is difficult.

Still going strong after 15 years, Byron Bay’s Liberation Larder are making meals, providing food to the home- less and those in need, and saving food from landfill. And it is all done with the gener- ous time and energy of the 40-strong team of volunteers.

The ACT is leading the way and it is time for NSW to step up and address the adverse impact of current drug laws.

This weekend will see housing action outside the Byron Shire Council chambers as the lack of accessible and affordable housing in the region is...

A range of issues for Tweed Shire were addressed at last week’s council meeting from the lack of mobile and internet coverage at Pottsville to textile recycling and how best to welcome refugees. 

Clarence Property’s ‘Wallum Estate’ DA in Brunswick Heads is one of these zombie DAs and it is one of many that have been brought to life up and down the coast of NSW.