Last week multi-award-winning journalist Jess Hill spoke to hundreds who gathered at the Star Court Theatre in Lismore. Hill spoke about gendered violence, and some of the things she has uncovered in recent years are truly shocking.
The latest snapshot around the health of the biodiversity and ecology in NSW has been released, with figures showing more decline of threatened species and the ecosystems that support them.
A development application (DA) by Byron Shire Council to subdivide two lots from the southern end of its Mullumbimby office/car parks along the rail corridor is on public exhibition.
A retail liquor shop is proposed for the corner of Burringbar Street and Station Street, located opposite the Commonwealth Bank.
Mandy, what a great idea, count me in on your campaign, I’ll be there. Let’s put three zeroes behind the 700 and cover every beach in Australia making it 700,000. Naked means keeping fundamentalist Christians, Jews, Hindus or Muslims away....
With a report released by CSIRO outlining how future flood levels can be reduced through hydrodynamic modelling, federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan (Nationals) is calling on Labor to act.
The annual Death & Dying Expo took place on Saturday at Mullumbimby Civic Memorial Hall and was a great success, drawing a large, engaged crowd from across the Northern Rivers.
A development application (DA) for a $9m extension and renovations of Feros Village Bangalow residential aged care home has been lodged, says Feros Care.
The Minns Labor government’s budget has delivered a record $3.4 billion investment in TAFE and skills funding, as part of its plan to tackle the housing crisis head on. They are investing $40.2 million over two years towards fee-free apprenticeships...
One reason I stopped selling e-bikes was that illegal over-speed e-bikes became available and preferred. The 25km/h speed limit was rarely policed. It’s a pity that wattage (power) was also limited to 250 watts. Speed kills, not power. Allowance up...
Mullumbimby’s Stewart’s Menswear has won the Gold Award for Retail Rockstar of the Year at the 2025 Roar Awards, held recently at Brisbane’s Calile Hotel.
A study by McNaugh and Inwood from University of Sydney’s University Centre for Rural Health (UCRH) agrues that, based on their research, as climate-related disasters become more frequent and severe, Australia must rethink who it sees as leaders in disaster response and recovery.
As a long-time supporter of local music, I was surprised to see the 2025 Mullum Roots Festival lineup lacking in cultural diversity. Given the rich multicultural makeup of the Byron Shire – including vibrant Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, African, and Japanese...
The recent decision to approve the extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas plant on the site of Murujuga is threatening the longevity of this very sacred site and flies in the face of Labor’s commitments to tackling climate change.
A community-run clay collective – based behind the Mullumbimby Drill Hall – is holding a ceramics, soup and chai night on Friday, July 11 to raise money for new kilns.
It’s on – NSW government-run development corporation Landcom has lodged its development application for 28 tightly-packed ‘affordable’ units and commercial space, which would replace a very busy Mullumbimby carpark at the town’s entrance.
If there was a university degree called ‘Thorn In The Side’, then Kathy Norley wrote the curriculum.
A large compendium of documents outlining Council’s funding and works programs was adopted on Monday by councillors at their last meeting before the winter break.
At last councils and governments in Australia are making steps to stop the burning of gas in homes. This major fossil fuel, when burned inside a house, is the equivalent of passive smoking and a health hazard, especially to...
A collection of artefacts from the Bundjalung and Arakwal people of Byron Bay has been loaned to the Bangalow Historical Society for the duration of its latest exhibition, ‘Learning from the Past’ to celebrate NAIDOC week.
Pay parking permits for Byron Shire residents will now be reduced from $55 to $30, after councillors haggled over the final number between themselves at Monday’s meeting, the last before the winter break.
As excitement builds for the inaugural Mullum Roots Festival headlined by The Waifs, Seven talked to one third of this iconic Australian act, Vikki Thorn about so many things…
In the interests of public safety and with upcoming traffic diversions from Mullumbimby Road, a public warning is needed for the old Tunnel Road (now Coolamon Scenic Drive) between Mullumbimby and Ocean Shores. That road is an old federal highway,...
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