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Police seek assistance to locate missing teen – Tweed Heads
Police are seeking help from the public to locate a teenage boy missing from the Tweed Heads area.
4 hours ago | Echonetdaily | 0 Local News -
New penalties for offensive slogans, images
Sexist and offensive slogans on vehicles, such as Wicked Campers, have now been outlawed after the Road Transport Legislation Amendment Bill 2020 was adopted by parliament on October 21. Local MP Tamara Smith (Greens) said it was a ‘great win’,... Read More →
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 2 Byron Echo, Local News -
Any size house on any size lot in Tweed under discussion
The debate on the potential to allow dual occupancies to be built on small rural properties in Tweed Shire rested on the vote of Liberal councillor James Owen. Councillors Waren Polglse and Pryce Allsop (conservative) had put forward a Rural... Read More →
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 0 Local News -
Arts sector unable to operate, in dire straits: Splendour in the Grass
Organisers of Splendour in the Grass are calling on the federal government to release critically needed funds to assist the arts sector. According to www.arts.gov.au, ‘On 26 September, the Government announced $22.9 million in 2020–21 to support Australia’s national cultural institutions during... Read More →
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 0 Byron Echo, Local News
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Police seek assistance to locate missing teen – Tweed Heads
Police are seeking help from the public to locate a teenage boy missing from the Tweed Heads area.
4 hours ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
New penalties for offensive slogans, images
Sexist and offensive slogans on vehicles, such as Wicked Campers, have now been outlawed after the Road Transport Legislation Amendment Bill 2020 was adopted by parliament on October 21. Local MP Tamara Smith (Greens) said it was a ‘great win’,... Read More →
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Any size house on any size lot in Tweed under discussion
The debate on the potential to allow dual occupancies to be built on small rural properties in Tweed Shire rested on the vote of Liberal councillor James Owen. Councillors Waren Polglse and Pryce Allsop (conservative) had put forward a Rural... Read More →
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Arts sector unable to operate, in dire straits: Splendour in the Grass
Organisers of Splendour in the Grass are calling on the federal government to release critically needed funds to assist the arts sector. According to www.arts.gov.au, ‘On 26 September, the Government announced $22.9 million in 2020–21 to support Australia’s national cultural institutions during... Read More →
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Award for Byron Bay’s refurbished Railway Park
Railway Park in Byron Bay has won the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects’ National Award of Excellence for Play Spaces.
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Luxury Talofa cabins approved by councillors
A holiday cabin development in Talofa will go ahead with half the number of parking spaces the developer requested, after Byron Council granted conditional approval last week.
Yesterday | Paul Bibby | 2 -
Byron High Year 12 students speak of studying for exams in COVID-19 times
One group for whom 2020 has presented extraordinary challenges is the current crop of Year 12 students, who are about to sit their HSC examinations.
Yesterday | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Bob Stewart found guilty in South Golden Beach dog cruelty case
Robert Bruce Stewart sat impassively as Magistrate Karen Stafford read out the guilty verdict in Ballina Court House yesterday, after two days of testimony relating to the bow-shooting death of his neighbour's pet dog Bucket.
Yesterday | David Lowe | 1 -
Will secondary dwellings remove agriculture from Tweed?
The impact of secondary dwellings on rural lots smaller than ten hectares in Tweed Shire will be discussed at this afternoons Tweed Shire Council meeting.
2 days ago | Aslan Shand | 6 -
Search continues to locate missing woman from Brooklet
Police are reappealing for public assistance as they continue their search for a woman missing on the Far North Coast.
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Resident groups split over unauthorised dwelling policy
With Council extending public submissions by one week for landowners to respond to the draft Unauthorised Dwelling Policy, resident groups appear to be divided on the issue.
2 days ago | Aslan Shand | 0 -
Motorcyclist dies in crash – Nimbin
A motorcyclist has died in a crash near Nimbin yesterday.
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Blue-green algae red alert for Lake Ainsworth
Lake Ainsworth is currently experiencing a blue-green algae bloom and Ballina Shire Council has issued a Red Alert level warning (high alert).
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
A secret meeting and that $78m funding application
Answers to questions raised by Cr Basil Cameron regarding a secret meeting and a $78m funding application by staff to a federal agency to upgrade the M1 highway interchange at Byron Bay have been answered by Council’s Director Infrastructure Services, Phil Holloway.
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Ballina Rotary fundraiser for polio coming soon
The Rotary Club of Ballina-on-Richmond is holding a charity screening of the recent Helen Reddy biopic 'I Am Woman' to help eradicate polio.
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Third Lismore greyhound death takes NSW toll to 38
Lismore greyhound track has become the second worst in NSW for animal deaths after a dog died there on Monday, the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds (CPG) says.
3 days ago | Paul Bibby | 6 -
Art of 70s and 80s culture captured on film
In the 1970s and 80s, the area around Mullumbimby and the Byron Shire hosted the birth of a multitude of alternative practices and ideals.
3 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 1 -
Rail trails for parts of Northern Rivers become law
Railway tracks between Casino and Bentley, and Crabbes Creek and Condong, will soon be removed for rail trails after the Transport Administration Amendment (Closures of Railway Lines in Northern Rivers) Bill 2020 was passed in the NSW upper house last week.
3 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 12 -
5G protests in Byron, while councillors sit on fence
‘When one leg’s on one side of the fence and the other leg is on the other side, you end up sitting on it.’
3 days ago | Paul Bibby | 18 -
Panels for dance collaborations are a Cack
The Alstonville Dance Studio has provided classes for disabled and death artists of all ages and abilities in dance, music drama and creative arts for over thirty years.
4 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
A calculator to help you save water
Rous County Council has launched an interactive online home water calculator for residents seeking to know more about their town drinking water consumption.
4 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Power to the people and the Bowlo
The Bangalow Bowling and Sports Club is the most recent community organisation to benefit from a no-interest loan scheme for solar.
4 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
This week count the birds in your backyard
The #AussieBirdCount is a great way to connect with the birds in your backyard no matter where your backyard happens to be — a suburban backyard, a local park, a patch of forest, down by the beach, or the main street of town.
4 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
$250m to councils for bushfire recovery
NSW’s peak body for councils has welcomed $250 million in State and Commonwealth government funding to help local communities left reeling from the economic devastation of last summer’s bushfires.
4 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Water Northern Rivers Alliance launched at Lennox
On the first day of National Water Week, supporters of the Water Northern Rivers Alliance gathered yesterday at the Lennox Head Cultural Centre to launch their inaugural campaign: 'Smart Water Options – No Dunoon Dam'.
4 days ago | David Lowe | 5
