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Remembering Pete Woolnough with song

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It is with great sadness that the community heard the news of the death of Peter Woolnough.
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National News

Men’s Health Week: simple conversations

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This National Men’s Health Week experts from Triple P – Positive Parenting Program are encouraging dads, granddads and father figures to embrace something simple but powerful: everyday conversations that support their own wellbeing and their family’s wellbeing.
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Appeal to locate wanted man Adam Richards

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Police are appealing for assistance to locate a man wanted on outstanding warrants in the Casino area.
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Marine Rescue volunteers assist disabled dive boat

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Volunteers and two vessels from Marine Rescue Point Danger safely assisted thirteen people to shore on Saturday afternoon after a commercial dive vessel experienced engine issues and was unable to safely cross the Tweed Bar.
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Fisherman dies at Evans Head

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NSW Police have reported that a fisherman has died after being swept off the rocks yesterday at Evans Head.
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Community to rally against ‘relentless’ RA house demolitions

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Northern Rivers locals and flood-impacted residents will gather in Lismore this Saturday to demand the NSW Reconstruction Authority stop demolishing heritage homes and deliver on broken promises, as community anger at the failed flood recovery reaches a new peak.
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National News

Emergency departments buckling under pressure

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Nurses working at emergency departments (ED) across the state are continuing to feel the effects of increased presentations and very unwell people coming through their doors, with the latest health snapshot painting a worrying picture of NSW public hospitals.
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New exhibitions opening at Lismore Regional Gallery

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All are welcome to the official opening of four new exhibitions at Lismore Regional gallery this Friday evening, with live music and a talk from Melbourne artist Sarah Ujmaia.
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Missing man

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Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a 35-year-old man missing from Tugun on the southern Gold Coast since 9 June.
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North Coast Safe Haven closure

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Safe Haven North Coast has provided effective mental health supports for people across the region since it was established in 2022, but is now running out of funding.
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Local News

Council appeals for help as deliberate tree destruction spreads

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Tweed Shire Council is appealing for community help after a spate of deliberate destruction of trees on public land across the Tweed, including the poisoning of mature Norfolk pines at Cabarita Beach and damage to established trees at a local cemetery.
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Bangalow Film Festival opens

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The Bangalow Film Festival opening night is this Thursday, 11 June and has already sold out.
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Man seriously assaulted in Byron Bay

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NSW Police say detectives have commenced an investigation after a man was seriously assaulted in the local area overnight.
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National News

Tour de Cure pays tribute to Professor Richard Scolyer AO

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Renowned Australian pathologist Richard Anthony Scolyer AO, died yesterday after living for three years with a grade 4 glioblastoma IDH wild-type brain tumour.
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Articles & Columns

Evans Head STP: kicking the environmental can down the road

Dr Richard Gates, for Evans Head Residents for Sustainable Development - 0
For decades the Evans Head Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) has been dumping effluent into Salty Lagoon in Broadwater National Park. Rich in nutrients and other contaminants, the lake succumbed to these pollutants with a massive fish and bird kill in 2005.
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Appeal to locate teen missing near Lismore

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Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from The Channon, north of Lismore.
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Two arrested after man dies

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A man and woman have been arrested after a man died in Tweed Heads on Saturday morning.
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Flood-free land and houses hit the market for Lismore buyback residents

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In what the government has described as a step forward for the region’s housing recovery, flood-affected homeowners will get the first opportunity to buy into Goonellabah’s Mount Pleasant estate.
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Echo celebrates 40 with awards night tomorrow

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Tickets are selling fast! Come join a fun-filled night of community celebration – This Saturday (tomorrow) The Echo is set to mark its 40th year in style with a ’30s swing-era style party and community awards night featuring the dynamic sounds of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra.
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Conversations in the Pub starts with Janelle Saffin

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Conversations in the Pub – Lismore’s new civic meet-up – kicks off on Friday 19 June with its inaugural special guest, the NSW Minister for Small Business, Minister for Recovery, Minister for the North Coast and Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin MP.
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Bungawalbin Levee repair to improve flood resilience

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A critical section of Bungawalbin Levee is proposed to be partially relocated to build its long-term resilience, benefitting the community, environment and agricultural industries in the Richmond Valley.
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Local News

Remembering Pete Woolnough with song

The Echo - 0
It is with great sadness that the community heard the news of the death of Peter Woolnough.
Read more
National News

Men’s Health Week: simple conversations

The Echo - 0
This National Men’s Health Week experts from Triple P – Positive Parenting Program are encouraging dads, granddads and father figures to embrace something simple but powerful: everyday conversations that support their own wellbeing and their family’s wellbeing.
Read more
Local News

Appeal to locate wanted man Adam Richards

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for assistance to locate a man wanted on outstanding warrants in the Casino area.
Read more
Local News

Marine Rescue volunteers assist disabled dive boat

The Echo - 0
Volunteers and two vessels from Marine Rescue Point Danger safely assisted thirteen people to shore on Saturday afternoon after a commercial dive vessel experienced engine issues and was unable to safely cross the Tweed Bar.
Read more
Local News

Fisherman dies at Evans Head

The Echo - 0
NSW Police have reported that a fisherman has died after being swept off the rocks yesterday at Evans Head.
Read more
Local News

Community to rally against ‘relentless’ RA house demolitions

The Echo - 0
Northern Rivers locals and flood-impacted residents will gather in Lismore this Saturday to demand the NSW Reconstruction Authority stop demolishing heritage homes and deliver on broken promises, as community anger at the failed flood recovery reaches a new peak.
Read more
National News

Emergency departments buckling under pressure

The Echo - 0
Nurses working at emergency departments (ED) across the state are continuing to feel the effects of increased presentations and very unwell people coming through their doors, with the latest health snapshot painting a worrying picture of NSW public hospitals.
Read more
Local News

New exhibitions opening at Lismore Regional Gallery

The Echo - 0
All are welcome to the official opening of four new exhibitions at Lismore Regional gallery this Friday evening, with live music and a talk from Melbourne artist Sarah Ujmaia.
Read more
Local News

Missing man

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a 35-year-old man missing from Tugun on the southern Gold Coast since 9 June.
Read more
Local News

North Coast Safe Haven closure

The Echo - 0
Safe Haven North Coast has provided effective mental health supports for people across the region since it was established in 2022, but is now running out of funding.
Read more
Local News

Council appeals for help as deliberate tree destruction spreads

The Echo - 0
Tweed Shire Council is appealing for community help after a spate of deliberate destruction of trees on public land across the Tweed, including the poisoning of mature Norfolk pines at Cabarita Beach and damage to established trees at a local cemetery.
Read more
Local News

Bangalow Film Festival opens

The Echo - 0
The Bangalow Film Festival opening night is this Thursday, 11 June and has already sold out.
Read more
Local News

Man seriously assaulted in Byron Bay

The Echo - 0
NSW Police say detectives have commenced an investigation after a man was seriously assaulted in the local area overnight.
Read more
National News

Tour de Cure pays tribute to Professor Richard Scolyer AO

The Echo - 0
Renowned Australian pathologist Richard Anthony Scolyer AO, died yesterday after living for three years with a grade 4 glioblastoma IDH wild-type brain tumour.
Read more
Articles & Columns

Evans Head STP: kicking the environmental can down the road

Dr Richard Gates, for Evans Head Residents for Sustainable Development - 0
For decades the Evans Head Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) has been dumping effluent into Salty Lagoon in Broadwater National Park. Rich in nutrients and other contaminants, the lake succumbed to these pollutants with a massive fish and bird kill in 2005.
Read more
Local News

Appeal to locate teen missing near Lismore

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from The Channon, north of Lismore.
Read more
Local News

Two arrested after man dies

The Echo - 0
A man and woman have been arrested after a man died in Tweed Heads on Saturday morning.
Read more
Local News

Flood-free land and houses hit the market for Lismore buyback residents

The Echo - 0
In what the government has described as a step forward for the region’s housing recovery, flood-affected homeowners will get the first opportunity to buy into Goonellabah’s Mount Pleasant estate.
Read more
Local News

Echo celebrates 40 with awards night tomorrow

The Echo - 0
Tickets are selling fast! Come join a fun-filled night of community celebration – This Saturday (tomorrow) The Echo is set to mark its 40th year in style with a ’30s swing-era style party and community awards night featuring the dynamic sounds of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra.
Read more
Local News

Conversations in the Pub starts with Janelle Saffin

The Echo - 0
Conversations in the Pub – Lismore’s new civic meet-up – kicks off on Friday 19 June with its inaugural special guest, the NSW Minister for Small Business, Minister for Recovery, Minister for the North Coast and Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin MP.
Read more
Local News

Bungawalbin Levee repair to improve flood resilience

The Echo - 0
A critical section of Bungawalbin Levee is proposed to be partially relocated to build its long-term resilience, benefitting the community, environment and agricultural industries in the Richmond Valley.
Read more
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When it comes to real estate, everyone can use an advocate

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With 45 years combined experience across both sales and property management, husband and wife team Mark and Michelle Errichiello have recently moved to the Northern Rivers and teamed up with Byron Property Search to provide advocacy services for people looking to buy or sell across the region.
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Savour The Tweed returns, 22 October

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Food and drink event, Savour The Tweed, returns to excite tastebuds this spring, from Wednesday 22 October to Sunday 26 October.
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Conservationists welcome carbon credit scheme to protect forests

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Today’s release of the government’s proposed Improved Native Forest Method, which allows governments to claim carbon credits in return for stopping logging has been welcomed by the North East Forest Alliance and North Coast Environment Council as "providing a way to end native forest logging on public land".
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Charge dismissed for activist hindering coal exports

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An activist who came to national attention after being punched by a police officer while protesting, has had an anti-protest charge dismissed in court today.
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