Byron Shire Local News
Local news, articles and more from the Byron Shire.
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What’s your solution for affordable housing?
Families are having to uproot their lives as one of the major issues facing the Byron Shire is increasingly the inability for many to find housing that is reasonably priced.
3 hours ago | Eve Jeffery | 0 -
Goin’ to the mar-ket and they’re, gonna get married…
After a bridal joy ride through the main street of Mullumbimby on Saturday, 'brides' Adrienne Dewdney and Bec Talbot dropped into the Mullum Monthly Market to propose to market-goers.
4 hours ago | The Echo | 0 -
Campfire ignites Main Arm blaze
Winter is not over, yet high winds are feeding dozens of fires blazing up and down the New South Wales coastline.
Yesterday | Eve Jeffery | 1 -
Holiday letting woes will get bigger
Our homes and neighbourhoods are under attack. The online, multinational, tax-evading, short term holiday letting disruptors would like to fill them all with tourists. Communities around the world are being damaged by these disruptors.
Yesterday | The Echo | 0 -
Birds of a feather…
Pied Oystercatchers are making whoopee on Tallow Beach and they don’t care who sees them.
Yesterday | Eve Jeffery | 0 -
Push for electric-vehicle fast-charge stations in region
Tweed and Byron shires are set to pave the way for the future of electric vehicles in the region, looking into ways of facilitating them by setting up a regional network of fast-charge stations.
4 days ago | Luis Feliu | 1 -
‘High capital cost’ prevents sealing of gravel roads
Byron Shire Council staff have hosed down the suggestion from a local quantity surveyor/cost engineer that the most cost effective use of funds for repairing the shire’s ailing roads is to apply bitumen to gravel roads.
One week ago | Hans Lovejoy | 1 -
BBQs and Bluegrass in glorious Bangalow sun
Glorious early spring weather greeted punters at the fourth annual Bangalow BBQ and Bluegrass Festival held over the weekend.
One week ago | Eve Jeffery | 0 -
Red Devils get 20k boost for club works
Red Devil Park has been in need of a bit of a spruce up and yesterday the club got a bit of a hand with some much needed funding.
One week ago | The Echo | 0 -
Bangalow food hub meeting planned August 17
A public meeting has been called by the Northern Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) to hear from the public over a large-scale development proposed opposite the Bangalow industrial estate on Lismore Road. And if you want to make a submission,... Read More →
8 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 1
