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Emergency guide wins NSW Resilient Australia Award

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Resilient Uki has won a 2026 NSW Resilient Australia Award for its Northern Rivers Community Emergency Hub Guide, developed with funding from Northern Rivers Community Foundation.
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The second algorithm: why government control is the wrong fix

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It is not often that a minister describes the most sweeping power she has ever asked for with the words 'I guess'.
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Tweed small schools take centre stage

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Students from nine of the Tweed region’s smallest public schools will take over the Murwillumbah Civic Centre tomorrow for the third annual Tweed Small Schools Talent Show.
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All the results from the 2026 Chinny Charge

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After another epic race on the one day of the year Mullum's iconic Mount Chincogan opens to the public, here are the complete results of the 2026 Chinny Charge.
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Swap the classroom for the trenches?

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History teachers from the Northern Rivers are being encouraged to apply for the new NSW History Teachers Anzac Scholarship, designed to send a history...
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Uniquely Byron Business Awards

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The Byron Bay Uniquely Byron Business Awards are now open.
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DV peak body responds to horror weekend

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Domestic Violence NSW (DVNSW) has released a statement responding to what has been a particularly tragic weekend, even by NSW standards, noting that domestic violence doesn’t have an age limit, and it doesn’t stop being a national emergency because it happens behind closed doors.
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The Pocket Road to close later this month

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The Pocket Road will be closed for several months from 28 September to repair a culvert originally built in 1960.
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Solar panel recycling in NSW

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The NSW government is consulting on Australia's first mandatory solar panel recycling scheme to ensure valuable solar panel materials are recovered, reused and recycled rather than sent to landfill.
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Sunrise farewell for Mullum High’s Year 12

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Year 12 Mullumbimby High School students watched the sunrise together this morning as they get ready to start the final sprint towards their HSC exams next month. 
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Swimmer drowns at Cabarita Beach

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A man has died after being pulled from the water on the weekend.
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Operation Yankee Rumour sees 18 arrested

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Detectives from Gold Coast Major Organised Crime Squad (MOCS) have closed an operation targeting the trafficking of dangerous drugs and money laundering, resulting in the arrest of 18 people.
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Brush up on your road rules knowledge

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Drivers, riders, and pedestrians are being encouraged to brush up on their road rules during Road Rules Awareness Week, with Transport for NSW launching seven new online learning modules to help road users stay safe.
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The Buttery wins national resilience award

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The Buttery is a not-for-profit, charitable organisation delivering mental health, and alcohol and other drug rehabilitation services across Northern NSW, from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie.
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Take the time to make a difference

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The Mullumbimby Anglican Op Shop is calling out for volunteers in their shop on Mullumbimby’s main street.
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Tyagarah’s slow and gentle treasure – from their hive to your home

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When Michael Howes left Sydney in the mid-1990s, he wasn’t chasing a business. He came north to visit a friend, got lost somewhere in the ranges, fell for the country and stayed. He started keeping bees in 1996...
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What’s behind the Green Seats of Clarence Valley?

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The Green Seats of the Clarence Valley are more than somewhere to sit – they are a reminder that missing people must not become forgotten people and that families should not have to stop asking questions simply because decades have passed.
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Making is better together

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There is something that happens when people sit around a table and make something together.
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Medicinal cannabis driving reforms pass NSW Parliament

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Medicinal cannabis patients in NSW will no longer automatically face penalties simply because THC is detected in their system while driving, after long-awaited reforms passed State Parliament.
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Wyrallah Road students put creativity on show

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Paint, performance and plenty of young imagination will take over Wyrallah Road Public School on Tuesday, 22 September when every student gets a place on the gallery wall. 
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Missing Tweed woman’s car found in Rous River

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The car belonging to missing Tweed woman Yvonne Whear has been found submerged in the Rous River, almost seven months after she disappeared.
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Emergency guide wins NSW Resilient Australia Award

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Resilient Uki has won a 2026 NSW Resilient Australia Award for its Northern Rivers Community Emergency Hub Guide, developed with funding from Northern Rivers Community Foundation.
Read more
Articles & Columns

The second algorithm: why government control is the wrong fix

Chaiy Donati - 0
It is not often that a minister describes the most sweeping power she has ever asked for with the words 'I guess'.
Read more
Local News

Tweed small schools take centre stage

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Students from nine of the Tweed region’s smallest public schools will take over the Murwillumbah Civic Centre tomorrow for the third annual Tweed Small Schools Talent Show.
Read more
Local News

All the results from the 2026 Chinny Charge

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After another epic race on the one day of the year Mullum's iconic Mount Chincogan opens to the public, here are the complete results of the 2026 Chinny Charge.
Read more
Local News

Swap the classroom for the trenches?

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History teachers from the Northern Rivers are being encouraged to apply for the new NSW History Teachers Anzac Scholarship, designed to send a history...
Read more
Local News

Uniquely Byron Business Awards

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The Byron Bay Uniquely Byron Business Awards are now open.
Read more
Articles & Columns

DV peak body responds to horror weekend

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Domestic Violence NSW (DVNSW) has released a statement responding to what has been a particularly tragic weekend, even by NSW standards, noting that domestic violence doesn’t have an age limit, and it doesn’t stop being a national emergency because it happens behind closed doors.
Read more
Local News

The Pocket Road to close later this month

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The Pocket Road will be closed for several months from 28 September to repair a culvert originally built in 1960.
Read more
National News

Solar panel recycling in NSW

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The NSW government is consulting on Australia's first mandatory solar panel recycling scheme to ensure valuable solar panel materials are recovered, reused and recycled rather than sent to landfill.
Read more
Local News

Sunrise farewell for Mullum High’s Year 12

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Year 12 Mullumbimby High School students watched the sunrise together this morning as they get ready to start the final sprint towards their HSC exams next month. 
Read more
Local News

Swimmer drowns at Cabarita Beach

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A man has died after being pulled from the water on the weekend.
Read more
Local News

Operation Yankee Rumour sees 18 arrested

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Detectives from Gold Coast Major Organised Crime Squad (MOCS) have closed an operation targeting the trafficking of dangerous drugs and money laundering, resulting in the arrest of 18 people.
Read more
Local News

Brush up on your road rules knowledge

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Drivers, riders, and pedestrians are being encouraged to brush up on their road rules during Road Rules Awareness Week, with Transport for NSW launching seven new online learning modules to help road users stay safe.
Read more
Local News

The Buttery wins national resilience award

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The Buttery is a not-for-profit, charitable organisation delivering mental health, and alcohol and other drug rehabilitation services across Northern NSW, from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie.
Read more
Local News

Take the time to make a difference

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The Mullumbimby Anglican Op Shop is calling out for volunteers in their shop on Mullumbimby’s main street.
Read more
Local News

Tyagarah’s slow and gentle treasure – from their hive to your home

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When Michael Howes left Sydney in the mid-1990s, he wasn’t chasing a business. He came north to visit a friend, got lost somewhere in the ranges, fell for the country and stayed. He started keeping bees in 1996...
Read more
Local News

What’s behind the Green Seats of Clarence Valley?

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The Green Seats of the Clarence Valley are more than somewhere to sit – they are a reminder that missing people must not become forgotten people and that families should not have to stop asking questions simply because decades have passed.
Read more
Lifestyle News

Making is better together

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There is something that happens when people sit around a table and make something together.
Read more
Local News

Medicinal cannabis driving reforms pass NSW Parliament

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Medicinal cannabis patients in NSW will no longer automatically face penalties simply because THC is detected in their system while driving, after long-awaited reforms passed State Parliament.
Read more
Local News

Wyrallah Road students put creativity on show

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Paint, performance and plenty of young imagination will take over Wyrallah Road Public School on Tuesday, 22 September when every student gets a place on the gallery wall. 
Read more
Local News

Missing Tweed woman’s car found in Rous River

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The car belonging to missing Tweed woman Yvonne Whear has been found submerged in the Rous River, almost seven months after she disappeared.
Read more
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Interview with Finn Ress – keyboardist, composer and producer

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A new music and arts festival is coming to the Northern Rivers, with Bangalow set to host the inaugural Dingo Music & Arts Festival across four days from 8 to 11 October.
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Prost, Byron! Oktoberfest is back

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Grab your steins and throw on your lederhosen, Stone & Wood is doing Oktoberfest properly this year.
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Byron Ballet’s 20th Anniversary Nutcracker

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After a successful season performing with the Victorian State Ballet in Beauty and the Beast, dancers from the Byron Youth Ballet Company are preparing to take the stage once more – this time for their own production of The Nutcracker.
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The Whitlams Return to Rock Island

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The Whitlams are coming to the Hotel Brunswick on Friday, 2 October for the first show of the Return to Rock Island tour. The band is revisiting its favourite rock venues down the East Coast, where long, sweaty nights formed the bedrock of The Whitlams’ reputation as a memorable force in the Australian live music scene.
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