Road works to begin for Byron’s emergency services precinct
State and local authorities are pleading with locals and visitors alike to take care not to disrupt the nesting activities of threatened shorebirds when they go to the beach and fragile estuarine environments this summer.
A ten-year plan ‘that reflects the visions, aspirations and needs of the community to guide Byron Shire Council’s work and priorities’ is on public exhibition until February 9.
Every February 14, for the past 13 years, the annual V Day flashmob has taken place on Main Beach.
The Mullumbimby and District Neighbourhood Centre (MDNC) are kicking off their community conversations for the year, called Mullum Together, which explores what matters to you most and what kind of community you want to live and participate in.
I can understand why the author of the back page of last week’s Echo seeks to remain anonymous. The sentiments expressed are racist, ignorant and puerile. Describing the rabid, hateful, increase of antisemitism in Australia as ‘reductionist name-calling of anyone...
In reference to David Heilpern’s editorial, (Comment, January 15) Is land sharing the future? I would say that if we don’t learn how to share land as a species, we don’t have a future. In my unsophisticated brain the three...
In discussions on TV, Senator Don Farrell, preparing the final report on the 2022 federal election, stated that he is a great supporter of the Westminster system. Surely that doesn’t mean that Australia should continue with an electoral system...
Further to the page 4 report on Byron Shire Council’s Draft Community Strategic Plan (CSP) 2025, let’s look a little closer at how such documents are incorporated into improving our wonderful life in the much envied Byron Shire.
The Australian Greens are calling for the $73 billion AUKUS nuclear submarine deal with the UK and the US to be scrapped in favour of ‘building constructive relationships with our regional neighbours’, while spending the money on Australians’ needs instead.
A recent survey of pharmacies across New South Wales highlights the failure of the new regulations intended to make low-nicotine vapes (≤20mg/mL nicotine) available without a prescription as Schedule 3 medicines.
For more than 45 years, an old Tuckeroo tree has stood resolutely beside the Roberts family home at Wategos.
I shrugged at the January 8 letter regarding the ‘boring’ New Year’s Eve in Byron because I thought the writer was so far off the mark it wasn’t worth responding to. But after ‘Joy to Byron Bay,’ in this...
At Justine Elliot’s campaign launch for Richmond on Saturday, January 18, Federal Treasurer, Dr Jim Chalmers, reiterated that Labor changes people’s lives now and into the future. He glowingly described Justine as an outcomes-focused, valuable member of the parliament...
Are you also reeling and feeling bewildered and shocked by the chaos of the times we are living through?
In a move that may become more common in the town as demand for rural housing grows, the owner of the undulating greenfield site at 403 Federal Drive has sought to create a cluster of 2000m2 lots on the site.
A severe thunderstorm moved across the Northern Rivers from the south west last Thursday (January 23) morning. Extremely high winds caused extensive damage, with falling trees blocking roads, and homes and motor vehicles being damaged. Multiple lightning strikes cut electricity to...
After 12 years as caretakers of Mullumbimby Showground, Margaret and Keith White and their beautiful dog Ollie, retire and leave Mullumbimby, at the end of January. Living on site saw them on duty 365 days every year. Their dedication...
The recent council decision to install traffic lights in Suffolk Park isn’t just about safety, it’s also about locality design. Why a speed reduction wasn’t proposed as an obvious, immediate option to improve safety isn’t clear. But it goes...
It seems that Simon has let his emotions get the better of some logic. There is little, if any, correlation between farming and the so-called sport of rodeo. In my many years of farm veterinary practice, I have yet...
The letters deadline for The Echo is noon Friday. Letters longer than 200 words may be cut. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letters editor.
The other day my friend said, ‘I don’t think I am going surfing today, the beach is a bit sharkey’. It’s something only people who live here, who know the water, say. I don’t think ‘sharkey’ is an official adjective that one can use to describe a body of water which contains said sharks. I don’t even know if it’s spelt with an ‘e’. But when someone who surfs everyday says the water is a bit sharkey – I don’t go in.
Set in beautiful and idyllic Byron Bay, the story centres around two young women whose fates are entwined through drug smuggling. Lucy Lush Box, a member of a cult known as The Movement, witnesses a drug deal on Tyagarah airstrip late one night.
ngalow Koalas is having a laugh … and the Byron Shire-based environmental group wants everyone to join in the hilarity by grabbing a ticket to Seriously Funny, one-night-only comedy fundraiser on Thursday, February 6, at Bangalow’s A&I Hall.
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