Actor and executive producer, Kieren Devisser, is running 2,000km across Australia to help raise awareness and raise funds for pancreatic cancer prevention.
The owners behind a large mixed-use development project at the southern end of the Byron CBD are seeking to make substantial changes to both the design and size of the project.
Mullumbimby High School year 12 students Henrietta Barry, Estar Constable, and vice-captain Rotem Hadad attended NSW Parliament and Government House this July to debate their bills created as part of the NSW Youth Parliament program.
Bay Centre Medical celebrated its 50th anniversary last Sunday, with a gathering at the Fig Tree restaurant in Ewingsdale.
As reported, the latest advice from Council’s Water Committee is that Mullumbimby’s Lavertys Gap water supply infrastructure has a shelf life of maybe two years. A decision needs to be made: a new holding pond and water treatment plant...
The Hydrosphere report to Byron Shire Council predicts that it is cheaper for Mullumbimby to buy all its water from Rous than to reconfigure the town’s existing local water supply. Reconfiguration would entail the addition of an off-stream storage...
I’ve always been reluctant to comment on Palestinian-Israeli matters because of the intractable nature of the problem as evidenced by modern-day conflicts, especially from the six-day war (1967) to the present. But the egregious toll of the October 7, 2023...
In response to Phoebe Havyatt (Letters, July 17): it’s very unfortunate that people like yourself have so little confidence in themselves and the Greens party in general that they have to ‘crap’ on highly professional and hardworking Labor MPs...
It has been over three months since the historic Mullumbimby Fire was gutted by fire, and the site remains largely untouched, except for a ring of fencing emblazoned with signs warning of asbestos contamination.
An event filled with delicious food, vibrant music, and fun activities for all ages is planned at The Paddock Project on August 17.
How dull, how shabby, how tatty – some might say ‘how Byron Shire!’ What on earth happened to the botanical name theme for the street names around here? One can bet one’s life that the guilty clown in Council’s offices who...
Freedom of speech it may be! However D Heilpern’s latest article has crossed the line! You may lean hard left or hard right but this is no less than ‘hate speech’. Laws against that in this country... those comments...
Newrybar Public School is set to light up the night sky once again on Saturday with its annual bonfire and fireworks spectacular.
We are a group of ten-to-twelve-year-olds at Byron Bay Public School, who are seriously worried about the housing crisis.
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to do the Yuraygir Walk – close to 70 kilometres of stunning national park from Angourie to Red Rock, it’s the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the state.
Ah, you have to love selective perception. Apparently God has a vision for America with Donald at the helm, but wasn’t too bothered when the chosen people sent their rockets and missiles into hospitals and schools. Rod Murray, Ocean Shores
Many thanks to community members who are addressing the dire issues of domestic violence and the manipulations of male behaviour in the manifestations of coercive control contributing to the deaths of women. The Saturday Paper journal, July 20-26, 2024 reveals...
The petrochemical companies have hit squads to kill anyone who threatens their business including all inventors who find free energy sources. Of course they also kill other people who threaten their business, like climate activists. Their bodies are scattered...
It is a bizarre paradox of contemporary life that those with the biggest stake in the future of our planet are the most likely to be left out of public conversations about it.
For the last nine months, the Soundshell amphitheatre, located at The Terrace in Brunswick Heads, has housed a community piano.
Given the hottest temperatures keep being recorded year after year, and the uncertainty ahead with extreme weather events, how is Byron Shire Council planning to alleviate the effects from the next large flood event?
In the mid 1800s, Florence Nightingale revolutionised nursing. She pioneered a kind of patient advocacy that sits at the heart of modern nursing. No longer just handmaids to doctors, nurses provided personal care, emotional support and comfort with work grounded in facts and evidence. Nurses don’t sit on the sideline. Nurses speak up.
The Murwillumbah Philharmonic Society Choir is delighted to present ‘Ceremony of Song’ in Lismore on the weekend.
In last week’s Echo (page 5), the three current candidates for mayor were given the chance to present their CV. Dear reader, would you hire them? One appeared to dance to the puppet master in Sussex Street. Another offered to keep...
Businesses and services around the world are still recovering from a massive IT outage last week after a cybersecurity firm issued a faulty software update which affected Microsoft Windows. They reckon it will be ‘some time’ before all systems...
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