New polling data from The Australia Institute and the Everybody’s Home housing rights alliance shows most Aussie voters want reduced tax breaks for property investors and more money for social housing.
Two Tweed Heads women are making a global impact by supporting disadvantaged girls and women through menstrual health education and the distribution of period dignity kits.
Police say investigations are underway after firearms, ammunition and suspected illegal drugs were seized during a compliance search in Ewingsdale, near Byron Bay.
NSW Member for Lismore, Janelle Saffin (Labor), says the NSW Government is closely monitoring fuel distribution, including over the Easter period, to manage any...
In another blow to the festival economy of Byron Shire, Spaghetti Circus have announced that its National Circus Festival will not be held this year. Yet it's not all bad – it will be on for 2027.
Free bus services will operate across Byron Shire this Easter long weekend, say Byron Shire Council. They said in a media release it will ‘support a region-wide program of live music, markets and events following the cancellation of Bluesfest’.
Investigation of an ocean outlet north of Fern Beach in the Billinudgel Nature Reserve was supported by all councillors at the 19 March Byron Shire Council meeting.
Three muralists Yasmin Shima, Rhianna Browning, and Daniel Hend have turned the Billinudgel Rural Fire Station into an artistic and cultural art installation as part of the lead-up to Billinudgel Rural Fire Brigade’s 50-year anniversary.
Navigating the legal system can be overwhelming and isolating for anyone. But for people living with cognitive impairments – such as intellectual disability, brain...
Organised by Aunty Rhoda herself, this was an extraordinary funeral, attended by a who's who of Indigenous Australia, and including the artistic and cultural voices of her diverse collaborators across a long and distinguished career.
A ‘one-of-a-kind observatory that frames spectacular views of the constellations by night and the rolling green hills and mountain ranges of the Northern Rivers by day has opened to the public’ in Mallanganee, near Casino.
The Captain Paul Watson Foundation has directly intervened against Aker BioMarine's krill supertrawlers in Antarctica.
Bob The Brown Foundation said in a statement it...
Mullumbimby’s much-loved bowling club is poised for a major transformation, with the historic site set to become home to a 24-hour gym in a shift that will permanently change how the community uses the venue.
Step into a rare and electrifying moment for the chess community of Byron Bay. For the first time in over 30 years, you have the extraordinary opportunity to test your mind against a true Grandmaster of the game, David Smerdon, one of Australia’s top-ranked players and a long-time representative at the Chess Olympiad since 2004.
Challenges are still being faced by the Suffolk Park community following the divide between supporters and detractors of the roundabout and traffic lights to deal with traffic woes at the Clifford Street intersection.
The community has fought hard for the Mullumbimby Hospital site to be retained for a mix of public, social, affordable, and mixed use housing, in perpetuity, since they created the Mullumbimby Hospital Action Group (MHAG), marched on the streets, volunteered for multiple community consultation groups, and more.
There’s a quiet but powerful truth behind every wildlife rescue, every conservation win, and every thriving patch of habitat in our region: someone saw something that needed doing, and simply stepped up.
With close to 250 entries into The Echo and Creative Mullum Short Story Compeittion it was exciting to see the Top Pub in Mullumbimby with standing room only as the top five stories from the adult and under-18 categories were read out.
With rain threatening from the east, skies stayed clear for Jenny Dowell's ceremony at the Quad, between three institutions she loved, the Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore Conservatorium and the Lismore Library. The grassy area was full of mourners, with many more watching via the livestream.
This ANZAC Day, RSL NSW is calling on communities across NSW to come together in a show of unity and gratitude by attending local commemorative services on Saturday, 25 April.
The 350km charity bike ride organised by Lennox Head's Boaty Boys and the Ballina-on-Richmond Rotary Club has raised over $30,000 for DV-related charities.
In a last minute scramble to get shows in the region, Brandin Farrant, father of music prodigy Taj Farrant, says that the cancellation of Bluesfest has been rough on a lot of levels.
Scared of fuel prices? Byron Bay has an exciting new bike shop! Located at the corner of Bayshore Drive and Banksia Drive, in the Byron Arts & Industrial Estate, this is Better by Bike's second store in the region, building on the success of their flagship operation at Murwillumbah Railway Station.
Byron Markets organisers say, ‘With hundreds of visitors already in town for what would have been Bluesfest weekend, Byron Markets is calling on locals and visitors alike to come out and support the region’s small businesses across a special Easter long weekend line-up of markets’.
Possum Shoot Road at Myocum will be temporarily closed for landslip repair work from mid-April, says Byron Shire Council.
They say, 'The landslip occurred on...
A new artificial reef has been installed off the Ballina coast, says the NSW Labor government, which aims to ‘boost tourism and sustainable recreational...
New polling data from The Australia Institute and the Everybody’s Home housing rights alliance shows most Aussie voters want reduced tax breaks for property investors and more money for social housing.
