A scheme created by Byron Council in a bid to generate more affordable housing in the shire looks set to get its first workout when a housing project comes before this week’s Council meeting.
Creative media educator, SAE, says it is has been reclassified from institute to a University College.
I listened to the Byron Shire Council (BSC) meeting to hear the fate of the Wallum site. Congrats to the Save Wallum community and Crs Westheimer, Coorey, Ndaiye and Dey for their attempts to protect. The scale of destruction and...
The Byron Seniors Festival is back, and will be held from March 11 to 15 at the Byron Community Centre.
The way in which coastlines are managed is moving forward, with a consultant report – Byron Shire Coastal Hazard Assessment (CHA) – being released by Council.
The section from the bus stop on Lighthouse Road to the divide of the road to Byron Bay, is totally unacceptable. It’s putrid for prams, for walkers, for tourists, for runners, for everyone. I don’t need a perfect footpath or...
I attended the flood forum held at the Ballina RSL last Monday and was aghast to hear some of the facts presented. 4,000 people have still not received funding that was promised to them and that is one of...
For 26 years, Tyagarah Beach has been an oasis for the region’s naturist community – a space where bodies of all shapes and sizes could roam free without threat of fines or reprimands.
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Byron Shire Council have been allocated $239,239 by the NSW Labor government to undertake an ‘urban design-based housing density study, that will examine the residential areas surrounding the Byron Bay town centre and support the delivery of 700 new homes’
I am 51 and have been homeless for eight years. I live in a van in a paddock. In my younger years I never imagined I would find myself in this situation. Life is full of surprises. There’s always...
A poorly-understood phenomenon where lorikeets in the region becoming paralysed and unable to fly is thankfully coming to an end for 2024, says WIRES wildlife vet, Dr Tania Bishop.
The fight to save the Wallum heathland in Brunswick Heads has gone into overdrive, with dozens of locals staunchly holding the line on-site, while thousands more lobby state and federal politicians in pursuit of permanent protection.
It’s so hard to introduce urgently-needed reforms in today’s fevered media climate that governments tiptoe around problems and hardly dare to act.
Dear Cr Balson, I understand that you attended the Byron Council meeting last Thursday very briefly, but absented yourself from the discussion and vote on the future of Wallum due to the declaration of a ‘significant non-pecuniary interest.’ Can you...
Michael Trevaskis (Letters, 8 February) might have enjoyed the extra three years of the miserable and mean Morrison government that his hallowed Brown-led ‘Green Convoy’ to central Queensland helped deliver. A lot of us didn’t and are still in...
Thank you, Councillors Lyon, Pugh and Coorey for explaining what went wrong with the Wallum development application (DA) process on Facebook. The community f*cked up because they failed to object?
Exciting news for the 1,000 or so enthusiastic paddlers who come for competition, the dress-up fun, a family outing or showcasing their individual craft – the Mullum2Bruns Paddle returns !
Like many small businesses doing it tough, local independent breweries are no exception. The number of small to medium-sized independent craft breweries falling into administration is growing.
And another FU to the community, from the dominantly pro-development Council. Submissions due by 23 February on the proposed further housing development of the forest on the old Club Med/Becton site at Belongil. ‘Changes to Development Controls for land at...
I love the smell of mould in the morning. Actually I don’t. It drives me nuts. Some days I’m obsessed that it’s all I can smell. It’s the smell of living in the Northern Rivers. The humidity and rain of our summer has created the perfect conditions for mould. Mould on shoes. Mould in my bread bin. Mould in the dark of my cupboards. Mould in the cracks in my bathroom. Mould behind the sink. Mould in me
Where are the residents of Byron Bay who are concerned about where we live and the changes afoot? At the Council information sessions for the Housing Options Paper (HOP), only eight residents turned up in Byron Bay. I spotted a...
With so many shades of Frankenstein, and featuring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef, Poor Things is set in Victorian London. Medical student Max McCandles (Youssef) becomes an assistant to the eccentric surgeon Dr Godwin ‘God’ Baxter (Dafoe) and falls in love with Godwin’s ward, Bella (Stone), a childlike young woman…
Hayley Grace’s response to post-flood PTSD, was to look at life and healing in a different way, then come through the other side writing about it – her new single ‘Mary Jane’ is the result. Hayley and The Bay Collective, a raucous seven-piece big band – featuring a full horn section, guitar, bass, keys and percussion – will launch the song this week and play some shows to get it out there. Seven spoke to Hayley on the weekend to get her POV on The Bay Collective and recovery.
‘May the light of the sun and moon of loving kindness and compassion permeate the entire world forever more, dispelling the darkness of the suffering of beings, and filling space with peace and happiness’ – Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche.
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