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Councils call for stronger powers to curb tobacco shops

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NSW councils have today called for stronger planning powers to control where tobacconists can open and prevent clusters of outlets near schools and community facilities.
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Local News

Are you interested in guiding the future of Byron Bay?

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Many members of the Byron Bay community are questioning what the future of Byron is – this is your chance to have a voice.
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Local News

Mullumbimby poster cleanup

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The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce and Community along with local businesses and volunteers, were out in force last Sunday morning cleaning up the town.
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Local News

Fatal three-vehicle crash – Suffolk Park

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Two people have died following a three-vehicle crash on Broken Head Road.
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Local News

Rescue helicopter service promises reform after harassment findings

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The Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service has apologised and committed to workplace reforms after an independent review found inadequate disciplinary responses to substantiated sexual harassment and bullying complaints.
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Local News

Michael Cook turns the tables in Tweed exhibition

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A bus full of passengers, a city street, a railway tunnel. The settings are familiar. Look at the people, though, and a different picture of Australia emerges.
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Local News

Northern Rivers flood experience informs school disaster lessons

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The Northern Rivers disaster experience has helped shape a new classroom resource aimed at preparing young people for floods, fires and storms.
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Local News

Super Halloween fun returns to Brunswick Heads Primary

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It is time to get spooky, and perhaps a little bit kooky at Brunswick Heads Primary School’s Fairtastic this Saturday.
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Local News

Council seeks public-art vision for Byron foreshore

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Byron Shire Council is seeking a curator or creative team to develop a public-art plan for Byron Bay’s foreshore, identifying potential sites and ways to share local culture and history.
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Local News

Building healthier waterways and slowing floodwaters

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There are increasing examples of ways that natural flood management can help waterways recover, slow flooding waters, and improve the waterways and catchments.
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Byron Echo

Rejecting the politics of hate

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Have you ever lived in such turbulent times? We really don’t know what to expect from one day to the next. With such uncertainty it is difficult to plan ahead.
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Local News

Gary Opit invites Byron to explore what moves after dark

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Most of us notice nocturnal wildlife when it darts across the road. Gary Opit has spent decades listening to people who reckon they have seen something rather harder to identify.
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Local News

Byron report reveals confusion over permission to fill flood-prone land

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Some building certifiers have interpreted conditions requiring raised floor levels as permission to use fill on flood-prone land, even though the filling required specific assessment, a Byron Shire Council report reveals.
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Local News

Lismore’s former joinery makes room for a different kind of craft

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A former Lismore joinery is about to test what else can be made in a timber factory, with Northern Rivers artists turning its industrial spaces into stages, screens and installations.
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Local News

Residents urged to respond before Byron rate-rise consultation closes

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Mullumbimby Residents Association is urging residents to have their say on Byron Shire Council’s proposed 35.03 per cent rate rise before consultation closes tomorrow (Friday, October 30), saying important evidence supporting the increase remains unavailable.
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Local News

Bangalow bridge repair still awaiting final design

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More than nine months after fire damaged Bangalow’s Byron Creek Bridge, Byron Shire Council has yet to choose a repair design that would allow heavier vehicles to use the crossing again.
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Local News

Banjo meets electronics for Lismore gallery’s Noisy Hour

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Keeping quiet is usually part of the deal when visiting an art gallery. Tomorrow, Lismore Regional Gallery is inviting a former Gerling musician and a banjo player to make some noise.
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Local News

Burringbar character controls adopted as council pursues lower height limit

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Tweed Shire Council has adopted planning controls to guide future development in Burringbar’s village centre and agreed to pursue a reduction in its maximum building height from 13.6 metres to nine metres.
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Local News

Farm-worker housing and micro-abattoirs emerge as Byron agriculture priorities

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Farm-worker housing, better access to farmland and small-scale abattoirs have emerged as priorities in a Byron Council survey examining how to support local agriculture.
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Local News

Where’s the funding for critical community help?

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Neighbourhood and community centres are struggling to keep their doors open and are cutting services because they don’t have ongoing core funding to cover staffing and operating costs.
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Local News

A year in review

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Byron Shire Council has published its Annual Report for 2025 to 2026, highlighting a year of what it describes as significant achievements in delivering infrastructure flood recovery works, environmental protection, and community programs.
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National News

Councils call for stronger powers to curb tobacco shops

The Echo - 0
NSW councils have today called for stronger planning powers to control where tobacconists can open and prevent clusters of outlets near schools and community facilities.
Read more
Local News

Are you interested in guiding the future of Byron Bay?

The Echo - 0
Many members of the Byron Bay community are questioning what the future of Byron is – this is your chance to have a voice.
Read more
Local News

Mullumbimby poster cleanup

The Echo - 0
The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce and Community along with local businesses and volunteers, were out in force last Sunday morning cleaning up the town.
Read more
Local News

Fatal three-vehicle crash – Suffolk Park

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Two people have died following a three-vehicle crash on Broken Head Road.
Read more
Local News

Rescue helicopter service promises reform after harassment findings

The Echo - 0
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service has apologised and committed to workplace reforms after an independent review found inadequate disciplinary responses to substantiated sexual harassment and bullying complaints.
Read more
Local News

Michael Cook turns the tables in Tweed exhibition

The Echo - 0
A bus full of passengers, a city street, a railway tunnel. The settings are familiar. Look at the people, though, and a different picture of Australia emerges.
Read more
Local News

Northern Rivers flood experience informs school disaster lessons

The Echo - 0
The Northern Rivers disaster experience has helped shape a new classroom resource aimed at preparing young people for floods, fires and storms.
Read more
Local News

Super Halloween fun returns to Brunswick Heads Primary

The Echo - 0
It is time to get spooky, and perhaps a little bit kooky at Brunswick Heads Primary School’s Fairtastic this Saturday.
Read more
Local News

Council seeks public-art vision for Byron foreshore

The Echo - 0
Byron Shire Council is seeking a curator or creative team to develop a public-art plan for Byron Bay’s foreshore, identifying potential sites and ways to share local culture and history.
Read more
Local News

Building healthier waterways and slowing floodwaters

The Echo - 0
There are increasing examples of ways that natural flood management can help waterways recover, slow flooding waters, and improve the waterways and catchments.
Read more
Byron Echo

Rejecting the politics of hate

Richard Jones - 0
Have you ever lived in such turbulent times? We really don’t know what to expect from one day to the next. With such uncertainty it is difficult to plan ahead.
Read more
Local News

Gary Opit invites Byron to explore what moves after dark

The Echo - 0
Most of us notice nocturnal wildlife when it darts across the road. Gary Opit has spent decades listening to people who reckon they have seen something rather harder to identify.
Read more
Local News

Byron report reveals confusion over permission to fill flood-prone land

The Echo - 0
Some building certifiers have interpreted conditions requiring raised floor levels as permission to use fill on flood-prone land, even though the filling required specific assessment, a Byron Shire Council report reveals.
Read more
Local News

Lismore’s former joinery makes room for a different kind of craft

The Echo - 0
A former Lismore joinery is about to test what else can be made in a timber factory, with Northern Rivers artists turning its industrial spaces into stages, screens and installations.
Read more
Local News

Residents urged to respond before Byron rate-rise consultation closes

The Echo - 0
Mullumbimby Residents Association is urging residents to have their say on Byron Shire Council’s proposed 35.03 per cent rate rise before consultation closes tomorrow (Friday, October 30), saying important evidence supporting the increase remains unavailable.
Read more
Local News

Bangalow bridge repair still awaiting final design

The Echo - 0
More than nine months after fire damaged Bangalow’s Byron Creek Bridge, Byron Shire Council has yet to choose a repair design that would allow heavier vehicles to use the crossing again.
Read more
Local News

Banjo meets electronics for Lismore gallery’s Noisy Hour

The Echo - 0
Keeping quiet is usually part of the deal when visiting an art gallery. Tomorrow, Lismore Regional Gallery is inviting a former Gerling musician and a banjo player to make some noise.
Read more
Local News

Burringbar character controls adopted as council pursues lower height limit

The Echo - 0
Tweed Shire Council has adopted planning controls to guide future development in Burringbar’s village centre and agreed to pursue a reduction in its maximum building height from 13.6 metres to nine metres.
Read more
Local News

Farm-worker housing and micro-abattoirs emerge as Byron agriculture priorities

The Echo - 0
Farm-worker housing, better access to farmland and small-scale abattoirs have emerged as priorities in a Byron Council survey examining how to support local agriculture.
Read more
Local News

Where’s the funding for critical community help?

The Echo - 0
Neighbourhood and community centres are struggling to keep their doors open and are cutting services because they don’t have ongoing core funding to cover staffing and operating costs.
Read more
Local News

A year in review

The Echo - 0
Byron Shire Council has published its Annual Report for 2025 to 2026, highlighting a year of what it describes as significant achievements in delivering infrastructure flood recovery works, environmental protection, and community programs.
Read more
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Lismore icon made homeless by NSW government

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Well known Northern Rivers artist, musician and puppeteer Jimmy Willing is now living in a tent, having been evicted at short notice from the Joy Love Studio in North Lismore late last week.
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National News

Councils call for stronger powers to curb tobacco shops

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NSW councils have today called for stronger planning powers to control where tobacconists can open and prevent clusters of outlets near schools and community facilities.
Read more
Local News

Ghouls just want to have fun

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Brunswick Heads Public School just held another fantastic Halloween Fair to raise funds for the school, in a celebration of creativity, hard work and spookiness.
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Shoebridge goes into the belly of the beast

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In his first address to the National Press Club, federal Greens leader David Shoebridge confronted many of those who have done their best to demolish what he stands for, and came out still standing.
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