Byron Shire Council Transport and Infrastructure Advisory Committee member, Anthony Stante, told The Echo it is vital that we start planning and looking for funding commitments form the state and federal governments to fix the dangerous queuing on approach to the M1 Byron Bay exit ramp at Ewingsdale.
Flickerfest Mullumbimby and Byron All Shorts is opening on Thursday, 26 February in Mullumbimby, celebrating 35 years of short film innovation here and around the country.
The Health Lodge Integrated Medical Centre is expanding its Northern Rivers Flood Recovery Healthcare Project to support families experiencing the health impacts of living in water-damaged homes following the 2022 floods.
Local music legend Barry Ferrier, aka Dr Baz, has recently been nominated for, and taken out, some prestigious music and film awards.
The fight to retain the Bangalow Bowling Club as a community hub into the future will take a step forward this week, with Byron Council set to formally apply for the iconic venue to be heritage listed.
The Northern Rivers has long been known for its fascination with cannabis culture, considering the perfect growing conditions this region provides, and for anyone who has ever thought they’d like to build their own hemp home now is the chance to find out a little bit more.
The lack of a place to live because of the pressure on land, droughts, fires, and floods, are all increasing as a result of the impacts of climate change and continue to affect lives, and the future, yet the NSW state government still refuses to take decisive action.
Byron’s Christmas Community Initiative presented a cheque for $307 to the Deputy Captain, Mellony Burke of the Byron Bay Rural Fire Brigade volunteers at Suffolk Park.
Australian citizens now must work for a legally ratified Bill of Rights. The recent demonstration at Sydney Town Hall attended by hundreds of people, including a rich representation of multi-cultural persons, advocating peace for Palestine, resulted in the worst of...
It looks like Lachlan Hall (Echo, Feb 11) has shot himself in the foot right from the outset regarding the ‘misinformation’ of the number of Gazan’s arriving in this country and I thank The Echo letters editor for supplying...
Y + x = who cares. I’m a high school student who cannot take another second of maths. Jk. I know it’s important, but I’d much rather do something else. I don’t even know how to do taxes! On...
I have voted local, state, and federal for over 60 years. Every ballot paper has had names of individual candidates. Once elected, the member has one and one only job. One responsibility. The responsibility to express, in parliament, the will of...
The boys are back in charge. Sussan Ley was handed a poisoned chalice after the worst election defeat ever, and given the impossible task of rebuilding the Liberal party.
The Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club (BBSLSC) says it is ‘supportive of the overall redevelopment’ of Byron Foreshore Landscape Concept Plan proposed by the Byron Shire Council (BSC) but has raised two significant concerns.
The community is calling on Byron Shire councillors, and the state and federal government to step up and deliver on public, social, and genuinely affordable housing at the former Mullumbimby Hospital site.
I commend the Labor government for at last proposing to reduce or remove the capital gains tax concession on property. This action will inject much needed extra funding into the economy as well as reducing the ever-growing gulf between the...
How traumatising to watch the unprovoked extreme violence of the police in Sydney at the nationwide rally against the war criminal Herzog on Monday a week ago. Then having to see how these thugs attacked kneeling worshippers in their prayers was...
The Middle East is at the brink of another extensive, devastating war with Iran. The Israeli government is saying that it’s a fight for their survival as a Jewish state, which is entirely surrounded by Muslim nations. I think their concerns...
The letters editor responded to my letter suggesting that The Echo appears to have an anti-Israel narrative, please prove my opinion wrong, and show me any articles or columns that the paper published in the past 40 years that...
I began reading Chaiy Donati’s impassioned defence of nuance with keen anticipation. No question, the culture wars have poisoned discourse, and I appreciate the call for more complex thinking. But please, let’s not confuse nuance with poetic license. Chaiy claims the...
Is it time for Byron Council to let go of the long-held vision of returning trains to the tracks in Byron and focus on the more achievable task of building a rail trail? This is the decision facing Council this week when it considers a motion proposing just such a course.
It is one thing not to be believed. It is quite another to be believed but not get justice. That is another form of abuse. A brutal public shaming, where your pain is used as clickbait for media platforms. Headlines about torture. About trafficking. About stolen girlhood. About women who were treated as sexual commodities, and traded like cattle for the slaughter.
Hello Albo, there are two possibilities from your actions last week: you didn’t know that inviting the President of Israel would spark off passionate demonstrations (unbelievable); or that you did know, but did it anyway (unforgivable). Sandra Heilpern, Ballina
Every year in February, my husband and I holiday in Byron Bay for a few weeks. A holiday we have had for the last 30 years and very much enjoy! For the first time since coming to Byron Bay, on...
I see Denmark has introduced primary school kids to empathy lessons. How to live with money and no need to work might be the next addition to the curriculum. Larry Hoofs, The Pocket
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