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Coercive control incidents rise across Northern Rivers

Paul Bibby - 0
Recorded incidents of coercive control have increased across the Northern Rivers in the second year of NSW’s new coercive control laws, with 30 incidents recorded in the Richmond-Tweed region since the offence came into effect.
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New laws set to influence local live music scene

The Echo - 0
New NSW laws designed to support live music venues have been passed months after Byron Shire Council abandoned plans for a Special Entertainment Precinct in Byron Bay.
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Local News

Shark drone operator rescues six-year-old at Lighthouse Beach

The Echo - 0
A shark surveillance drone operator at Ballina’s Lighthouse Beach has found himself carrying out a very different kind of rescue after spotting a six-year-old boy struggling in the surf.
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Local News

Red alert issued for potentially toxic algae at Lake Ainsworth

The Echo - 0
People are being warned to stay out of Lake Ainsworth at Lennox Head after testing detected high levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae.
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Byron Echo

Democracy does not equal liberalism

iden Grandsimon - 0
In recent years, democracy seems to be taking sides. In political commentary, opinion columns, or even conversations with friends, after each major election, there appears to be a preferred ‘democratic’ candidate.
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Byron Echo

Time to create a new politics

Catherine Cusack - 0
Climate change is happening faster than we thought and Australia is set to fall well short of its 2030 renewable energy target of 82 per cent.
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Local News

Wildlife road warnings falling short on Byron roads

Paul Bibby - 0
Byron Shire Council has acknowledged that some of its current measures to protect wildlife from vehicle strikes have limited effectiveness, while funding has yet to be secured for seasonal electronic warning signs on several key koala routes.
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Local News

Fake $100 notes marked ‘PROPS’ circulating across Northern Rivers

The Echo - 0
Northern Rivers businesses are once again being urged to check cash carefully following reports of counterfeit $100 notes being used at local shops.
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Measles alert after infectious traveller visits Northern Rivers locations

The Echo - 0
Health authorities have issued a measles alert after a confirmed case visited eight locations across Byron, Ballina and Pottsville while infectious.
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Local News

Community rallies in support of Bangalow Bowlo

The Echo - 0
Over 1,000 people rallied on Saturday in support of the Bangalow Bowlo and returning it to community hands, 11 months after Norths Collective closed the Bowlo.
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Local News

Council explores future for Brunswick flood housing village

Paul Bibby - 0
Byron Shire Council is exploring options to keep the 58-home temporary housing village at Brunswick Heads operating after the NSW Government’s flood-housing program ends.
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Local News

Lismore tests market for flood-raised industrial precinct

The Echo - 0
Lismore City Council is testing market interest in a proposed 21-lot industrial subdivision on flood-raised land at South Lismore.
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Local News

Kings Forest seeks wider bulk-earthworks area

The Echo - 0
The developer behind the massive Kings Forest housing project near Kingscliff is seeking permission to expand the area where bulk earthworks can take place and remove an existing restriction on the amount of ground that can be exposed at one time.
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Local News

Broken Head teen makes surfing history at just 13

The Echo - 0
Most 13-year-olds would be happy just to make an under-18 world final. Two weeks ago Broken Head surfer Leihani Zoric took out the whole thing.
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Local News

Emergency guide wins NSW Resilient Australia Award

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Michelle Bailey targets net zero in Ballina

David Lowe - 0
Fresh from winning pre-selection as the Nationals candidate for the state seat of Ballina, the 'independent' first-term Ballina councillor Michelle Bailey has put forward a notice of motion asking Council to scrap its fixed 2030 net-zero target in favour of what she describes as a 'flexible sustainability strategy'.
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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'.
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Local News

Tweed small schools take centre stage

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

All the results from the 2026 Chinny Charge

The Echo - 0
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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Articles & Columns

DV peak body responds to horror weekend

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Ross Lane to be closed for at least two months

David Lowe - 0
Lennox locals and visitors have reacted with dismay to the announcement that Ross Lane will be completely closed from 19 October to 18 December...
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National News

Solar panel recycling in NSW

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Sunrise farewell for Mullum High’s Year 12

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Swimmer drowns at Cabarita Beach

The Echo - 0
A man has died after being pulled from the water on the weekend.
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Articles & Columns

Tony Burke and the immigration iceberg

David Lowe - 0
In a speech to the National Press Club, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has attempted to redefine the immigration debate. But what lies beneath?
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Local News

Operation Yankee Rumour sees 18 arrested

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Brush up on your road rules knowledge

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Challenge of mobile market wash stations

Aslan Shand - 0
Byron Shire Council (BSC) introduced the mobile market wash stations in 2024 as they looked to phase out single-use food and beverage packaging at events held on Council-managed land.
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Local News

The Buttery wins national resilience award

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

What’s behind the Green Seats of Clarence Valley?

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Councillors split over withdrawing Council support for 57 Station Street DA

Aslan Shand - 0
The raw debate that took place over the 57 Station Street carpark development in Mullumbimby at the end of yesterday’s council meeting was enlightening, not only for the public, but also for the councillors.
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Local News

Medicinal cannabis driving reforms pass NSW Parliament

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Wyrallah Road students put creativity on show

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Bangalow black spot secures $1.6m safety upgrade

Paul Bibby - 0
A notorious Bangalow road safety black spot where much-loved local man Paul ‘Campo’ Campton was killed in a hit-and-run crash is set for a major upgrade after Byron Shire Council secured around $1.6 million in NSW Government funding.
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Local News

Missing Tweed woman’s car found in Rous River

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Reece Byrnes elected new Tweed mayor

The Echo - 0
Tweed Shire has a new mayor, with councillor Reece Byrnes elected to the top job following a vote at Thursday’s council meeting.
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Editorial

Editorial – Time for free oral

Aslan Shand - 0
Most of us have had a toothache. It is bloody painful and at times I’ve fantasised taking a pair of pliers and ripping the agonising tooth out while I wait for attention from a dentist to help me – please just help me with the pain!
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Local News

What can Clarence Property actually do at Wallum now?

Paul Bibby - 0
The slashers and bulldozers are preparing to move onto the Wallum site at Brunswick Heads. But after two major Federal Court judgments, what is developer Clarence Property actually entitled to do?
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Local News

Flood-free industrial land push emerges on Lismore’s eastern edge

The Echo - 0
One of Lismore’s few identified areas for future flood-free industrial development is moving through the planning system, as the city continues to grapple with where businesses can relocate away from the floodplain.
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Local News

How ready is the Northern Rivers for the next disaster?

The Echo - 0
Four-and-a-half years after the 2022 floods devastated the Northern Rivers, emergency workers, researchers and community groups are gathering in Lismore to ask a deceptively simple question: are we better prepared for the next one?
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Local News

Ballina draws line between homelessness and anti-social behaviour

The Echo - 0
Ballina Council has moved to draw a clearer distinction between homelessness and anti-social behaviour, declaring that rough sleeping is not an offence as it puts a new homelessness strategy out for public comment.
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Local News

Free community BBQ for men and their families in Lismore

The Echo - 0
Parenting can be a challenging experience, with parents often expected to know the answers or how to respond. And sometimes it’s not so simple. Lismore’s Men & Family Centre is inviting Northern Rivers men and their families to a free Community BBQ and forum.
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Local News

Coercive control incidents rise across Northern Rivers

Paul Bibby - 0
Recorded incidents of coercive control have increased across the Northern Rivers in the second year of NSW’s new coercive control laws, with 30 incidents recorded in the Richmond-Tweed region since the offence came into effect.
Read more
Local News

New laws set to influence local live music scene

The Echo - 0
New NSW laws designed to support live music venues have been passed months after Byron Shire Council abandoned plans for a Special Entertainment Precinct in Byron Bay.
Read more
Local News

Shark drone operator rescues six-year-old at Lighthouse Beach

The Echo - 0
A shark surveillance drone operator at Ballina’s Lighthouse Beach has found himself carrying out a very different kind of rescue after spotting a six-year-old boy struggling in the surf.
Read more
Local News

Red alert issued for potentially toxic algae at Lake Ainsworth

The Echo - 0
People are being warned to stay out of Lake Ainsworth at Lennox Head after testing detected high levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae.
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