A panel event, ‘Gendered violence; hope, optimism, and local solutions’, will be held at The Farm on July 4 from 7.30am to 9am.
Police are reminding residents to lock doors and windows even when they are at home, after the latest spate of break-ins and vehicle theft in Brunswick Heads.
For young people growing up in the region there can be limits to what you can do – especially if you are not a beach-orientated person.
$55,000 has been awarded for the 2024 National Training Program for Spaghetti Circus, says local Labor MP Justine Elliot.
John Bailey was born in Sydney, worked as a teacher in England and as a public servant in New Guinea, and eventually practised as a barrister in Melbourne.
The lab-leak theory that Covid-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – instead of a nearby wet market – was thrashed about in public recently, with the US Senate Homeland Security Committee holding a hearing into Covid-19.
‘You silly bugger, I was born there in the little grey hospital in Dalley Street, and baptised in the Catholic church!’
Earlier this year, Hinterland House in Bangalow featured on Married at First Sight, a hit reality-TV series that has millions tuning in to watch strangers paired up in fictional marriages.
ocal Labor MP, Justine Elliot, has launched a petition backing the police use of tasers and guns, on the back of a social media post criticising the federal Greens’ gun and taser policy.
An aquatic strategy to be presented by Council staff in the upcoming meeting suggests a new 50m, eight-lane pool be built adjacent to the Mullumbimby Skate Park, within Lot 22 land.
Some of the issues to be voted on at this Thursday’s Byron Council meeting include a lengthy motion on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which is proposed by Crs Cate Coorey and Duncan Dey.
The distinctive whoosh of an electric bike flying down the road has become a familiar sound to many locals in the past few years.
There’s an urgent need for truth in political advertising legislation, but it’s hardly likely to be proposed by either major party.
The alarming news about Peter Dutton walking away from our 2030 emissions reduction target unfortunately doesn’t come as a surprise. The sad, but predictable, thing is that it’s become the norm for him to walk away from commitments that...
Arguably there has never been a more important decision to be made on the future of Mullumbimby. Mullumbimby water, from Lavertys Gap, is very pure and beautiful to drink. This is something that can easily be taken for granted. You...
Many locals are keen to avoid the chemicals and harmful compounds that go with conventional practices, and have advocated for a natural burial ground in the shire.
The consultant who advises both Byron Council and water utility Rous has defended accusations that they have a perceived non-pecuniary conflict of interest in undertaking work for multiple clients.
Peter Dutton’s going nuclear. When you set aside his proposed intention to build actual reactors on our landscape, there is a figurative meaning which I feel underpins the spirit of the man and his political approach. Going nuclear can also mean ‘to become furious; to resort to drastic measures in an attempt to undermine an opponent.’
Ballina Council is in the privileged position of owning 30 lots of subdivided residential land in Wollongbar, out of the floodplain, close to services, ready to build. All we need is a clear vision. The current resolution is to...
Stuart McConville (Letters, June 12) was expressing his opinion about a perceived lack of business community spirit in Byron Bay compared to years gone by. We appreciate Stuart coming to the defence of BayFM, but he would be unaware...
I am amazed by something that should have been a good news story, and we desperately need them, that turned out to be a sorry story indeed. There was the uplifting photo of Toni Storer and her fecund verge...
With the school holidays fast approaching it’s time to rev up the kids to see the ever-lovable Minions in the first Despicable Me movie in seven years.
If you’re an artist, and want to win $5,000 for having your art and your name featured on a limited-edition bottle of gin, plus six bottles of Ink Art Gin, then the Ink Art Gin bottle design competition might...
The masters of ‘zero to hero’ pub rock, The Tenants, are bringing their live show and Aussie humour to Mullum’s Courthouse Hotel for one night only on Thursday, July 4.
Cape Byron Distillery, the B-Corp certified distillery from Byron Bay has released a gin flavoured with rainforest botanicals carefully selected by the five winning bartenders from the 2023 reGINeration Australian cocktail competition, including Hamish Mcshane from Moonlight in Byron...
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