Council staff say a Koonyum Range resident was fined $60k for land clearing/ removing trees, and $10k for an unauthorised building.
The annual Byron Shire Book Fair is finally going ahead from Friday July 1 to Sunday July 3 from 9am to 4pm at the Byron Bay Surf Club.
A group of dog owners who met at the common shed at the Brunswick Heads Sports Fields last Sunday say they were confronted by three men with a dog who were camping at the location.
The first official data has been released following the devastating February 28 floods.
The Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC) will come into existence from July 1. So what is it, and how will it assist flood-affected residents across the region?
I was thankful for Duncan Dey’s input at the last Council meeting where two representatives spoke in public access to the long overdue attention needed to drainage, silting, flooding. I was thankful to Duncan Dey because he spoke about...
Perplexed to read Richard Jones’ article ‘Now’s the time for those reforms’, when the opening sentence quotes: ‘Just over two weeks ago, we had a revolution, finally’. Really? For most political progressives, it’s a long stretch to claim the...
I also strongly agree with David Gilet and Paul McCarthy on the creeping cancer of increased building heights/heists in Byron CBD, and I have breaking news for David and those concerned with Byron heritage, news which is only 17...
Everyone is invited to join in celebrating World Localisation Day (WLD), on Saturday June 25 at The Farm in Byron Bay.
The Byron Bay Historical Society has supported concerns raised by residents around a DA that proposes to demolish a home listed in a heritage area.
The NSW Upper House’s Education Committee say they have commenced an inquiry into teacher shortages in NSW.
Bruce Kent (22.8.29–8.6.22) was one of the greatest compassionate advocates for disarmament and humanity: • General Secretary 1980–85 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), Chair 1987–1990 and then held the honorary title of Vice President • Patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign •...
The first time I noticed a bush stone-curlew in Brunswick Heads it was waiting at the pedestrian crossing, on its way to the pub, across the other side of the road.
In amongst all those duplexes in Tweed Heads have sprung funky cafes full of hipsters sipping almond-milk chai lattes whilst reading The Echo and the Nimbin Good Times. Down in Kingscliff, people now say if you’ve seen Lisa Hunt or...
The NSW Government has supported a crossbench motion in NSW Parliament on June 8 that their response to the Northern Rivers floods was ‘insufficient’.
I am a great believer in community input into Council business. A great opportunity for that is through Advisory Committees. Four of those have vacancies, and I encourage anyone with an opinion on the following areas, or with shareable...
The Enova Community Energy Board announced Tuesday that Enova Community Energy and Enova Energy, its retail electricity arm, have been placed into voluntary administration.
Do the cars that ended up in Wilsons Creek pose a significant health risk owing to leaching toxins?
You (The Echo), rightly so, have a dig (in Backlash) at right-wing media outlets for mindless repetition of discredited ‘talking points’, but then you run a ‘story’ (50 per cent press release direct from Justine Elliot’s office?) in which...
At the height of the floods my lovely young neighbour, Brian, was all over the place helping people. Also, he and his sister Szerenke used his tinny to ferry people out of South Golden Beach to safety. His tinny’s...
Byron Council would need to find more than $4 million in its budget to kick-start the process of bringing drainage maintenance in the north of the Shire up to a desirable standard, a staff report has found.
The Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP) will this week quietly decide whether temporary coastal protection works at Clarkes Beach will be allowed to remain there for a further five years under the authority of two government agencies.
With Australian journalist and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, fighting extradition from the UK to the US on espionage charges, local Labor branches are mobilising to put pressure on the new Labor government to do more for his release.
Warnings and obscure truths often appear in ‘Backlash’ in The Echo. Addressing the proposed 4000 sqm development in Clifford Steet, Suffolk Park (15 June), it asks whether the Council is ‘again trying to gift public land to speculating developers?’ Denwol...
Bruce Kent (22.8.29–8.6.22) was one of the greatest compassionate advocates for disarmament and humanity: • General Secretary 1980–85 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), Chair 1987–1990 and then held the honorary title of Vice President • Patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign •...
