A gentle breeze sends a whispering shiver through the weeping needles of the she-oak trees, muffling the sound of our footsteps. As our ears adapt to the ensuing silence, we hear the gentle cracking of she-oak cones and the soft...
A group in favour of the proposed Ocean Shores Boardwalk, that would connect New Brighton to Ocean Shores Shopping Centre in its first stage and run through three nature reserves, say there is strong community support for the idea.
After having just watched the 2025 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which highlights the Israeli violent oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank, I can no longer remain silent.
Echo drudges have been having a little bit of fun in recent months working on a short series of video vignettes on the subject of health, covering everything from your brain to your bum and what happens in between.
Recently the Mullumbimby community come out in support for local Indigenous teacher Uncle Scotty who has just received a double lung transplant.
Those who want to create a footbridge and boardwalk across Marshalls Creek into the north part of Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve (north of the river) have not taken into account what ‘nature reserves’ are and why they exist. Already we...
What will the SEP do? A Byron town SEP (special entertainment precinct) will not prevent future floods, fires, lower visitor numbers, high rents or most obviously a per-capita recession. It is not possible to ‘future-proof’ against these things. It does...
Beautiful sad photo of an Iranian child featured on Mandy’s Soapbox recently about the babies of Gaza. A perfect example of how the messages we receive can be constructed from unverified sources. Mandy Nolan may think there is only one...
With gentle hearts, we mark the passing of Rasa Lynne Dover on July 27 – a beloved local gardener, seed-saver, and community inspirer.
Liz Bennet, more widely known as Bay FM presenter Lady Marmalade, has celebrated more than 20 years of volunteering for Byron’s only community radio station.
Over the weekend we saw the cancellation of the Byron Writers Festival owing to another significant rain event on the NSW east coast.
Way to go Mayor Sarah Ndiaye. Brunswick Heads paid parking, no longer free for residents; Mullumbimby’s town entrance destroyed forevermore and Byron Bay becoming the ‘Kings Cross’ of the Northern Rivers. What a trifecta you have overseen to ruin...
Just to be frank, I don’t think there is a future for electricity distribution, or local or regional battery storage in suburban, regional, or rural areas. China is showing the world that home batteries and solar are becoming the global...
Labor’s Stephen Lawrence MLC and Anthony D’Adam MLC, Labor’s Friends of Palestine, will be speaking about the role of Australia in the Middle East peace process at the Lennox Head Cultural Centre from 6.30pm tonight – Thursday, 14 August.
The 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was last week. We were taught this atrocity was necessary to end the war and we believed it.
Thank you Paul Gannon for stating the bleeding obvious. (Echo July 30) Recently the Local Government Association commissioned a study which revealed that state and federal governments are cost-shifting the costs of services and infrastructure on to local councils and...
More great news from both the Minns and Albanese Labor governments as they continue to deliver for the north coast. NSW Housing and Homeless Minister Rose Jackson announced a $9 million modular social housing development delivering 24 new homes...
A key planning document that will shape the future of the sprawling Gulgan North Business and Industrial Lands precinct is set to come before Byron Council for ratification this week. The owners of the 52-hectare site at 66 The Saddle...
In a devastating blow, the 2025 Byron Writers Festival (BWF) was cancelled last weekend after a successful, though wet, Friday session.
My climate change session got cancelled. Because of climate change. I guess that pretty well says it all. Saturday morning at the Byron Writers Festival I was looking forward to talking climate change with Dr Joelle Gergis, an IPCC scientist and author and host Mel Bampton. But it was cancelled. Ironically because of the weather.
Letters to the editor The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don’t be a passive reader, send...
Nothing prepared me for China. In Xiamen, a city of five million, I walked up to 12km some days, past glittering malls, bustling fish markets, and serene gardens, rode bullet trains, got lost regularly and met hundreds of locals. I saw...
Do you remember when the movie Babe was released to much acclaim? Well, not if you were born this century – it came out 30 years ago this year. It turned many viewers into vegans – they realised that...
Before the authorities begin punishing sellers of ‘illicit tobacco’, (up to seven years jail and fines for unlicensed tobacco sellers, Echo July 30) they may need to do some research. Here in Lismore many legitimate tobacconists sell packs of...
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