In its 40th year, The Echo is revisiting the pivotal moments that have impacted and shaped the Northern Rivers region.
Whether you agree with the community members who are listened to or not, it’s a powerful vote of confidence in democracy when community voices are heard, and policy is changed, even at the local government level.
Every last Saturday of the month, the best bakers in town fire up their ovens for the Bangalow CWA cake and produce stall. Mixing up a selection of large and small iced cakes, with perennial favourites such as: passionfruit...
Local community group Together She Thrives is hosting a traditional Indian Holi Festival of Colour at Banner Park, Brunswick Heads on Sunday, 1 March, 10-11am for women and girls. ‘Holi is a traditional Indian festival celebrating joy, unity and new...
At Byron Shire Council’s meeting last Thursday Cr Asren Pugh moved a motion to take steps to list the Bangalow Bowling Club site as a heritage-listed item under the Byron LEP 2014.
Sandra Heilpern, I initially shared your disquiet regarding the Herzog visit, but I suspect we were coming at the issue from different perspectives. I thought it was a stupid and risky political move to seek controversy – even with his...
And this week’s prize for a (wannabe) politician’s double-speak goes to... the Greens’ Mandy Nolan. In her column last week in The Echo she railed against rape denial and the lack of justice against perpetrators, and additionally attended last week’s...
Readers need to be aware just how deceptive is the current plan for the Great Koala National Park (GKNP). According to the Bob Brown Foundation, the boundaries currently exclude some of the highest-value koala habitat available, such as Pine...
As a wildlife carer of almost 20 years (recently resigned), I am pleading to your readers to act and lobby for the protection of our diminishing and undervalued wildlife. Within NSW in 2025, some 485,000 defenceless wildlife were legally harmed...
How wonderful it was to experience the latest NORPA offering ‘Prima Facie’ at our beautiful Byron Theatre on the weekend! This extraordinary production featured a world-class performance by a stunningly good actress (Matilda Ridgeway) and a very clever and complex set...
It is hard to imagine that a shortage of the world’s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate aka Roundup, could be a national defence emergency, but here we are with Trump’s Executive Order (18 February, 2026): ‘Promoting the National Defence by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorous and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides’.
The Ocean Shores Community Association (OSCA) who are one part of the Marshalls Creek Flood Forum (MCFF) called a meeting on Monday, 16 February at the Ocean Shores Country Club to discuss one of the proposed options, ocean openings, put forward for assessment by the MCFF.
Not just a winged insect symbolically representing transformation, hidden knowledge, and navigating through darkness. But a live presentation of spellbinding tales – written by locals, and told by locals! The Moth is a New York mainstay, created by an...
All good things must come to an end, and Main Arm resident, Ingrid Manning is hoping that as one door closes, another will soon open.
‘Yoga Pose’, a clay figure cast in bronze, by longtime Byron artist Laila Bell was unveiled in Jonson Lane mall (Browning Street and Jonson Street roundabout) last Friday. ‘For me, this work is about resilience, about finding balance when...
Byron Shire councillors withdrew from the proposed Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP) at their last meeting, after the NSW state government department rejected the sound and late-night trading restrictions that were proposed by Council after community consultation.
Thursday saw all Byron Shire councillors pass a motion that ‘commences work on the development of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Byron Shire Council and Homes NSW to establish a framework for collaboration on housing outcomes across the Byron Shire Local Government Area’.
Byron Shire Labor Councillor and Bangalow local Asren Pugh officially resigned from Council last Thursday, 19 February having announced the resignation in social media post the day before.
Elements of Byron has ‘served 130,000 margaritas across the one million room nights guests have stayed since we opened ten years ago,’ said owner Peggy Flannery.
If a force is applied on one side of a scale in balance, it then becomes unequal. Being equal is a feeling, that only the individual can find for themselves, the equality exists at the individual level of feeling something,...
After kidnapping the President of Venezuela, which has the world’s largest oil reserves, our allies seem to have set their sights on stealing Iran’s oil: the world’s third-largest reserves. Former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe and Four-Star General, Wesley Clark,...
I noted recently, Paul Bibby’s article on the proposed more pedestrian-friendly CBD . It seems a timely move; but I am dubious that this will be the outcome of the proposed changes. In print, they seem well enough: pedestrian crossing and...
This is a disaster just waiting to happen. The injury statistics are mounting around the country but there continues to be a sense of apathy amongst the authorities. E-bikes are effectively motorcycles. They are heavy, fast and completely unregulated. They usually have...
So, are you saying it’s taken this long for Byron to consider ‘no train’, considering they are a middle section of a rail trail, seems that was forgone, or did they mean the absurdly heavy ‘solar train’ ? Anyway 6/2...
The situation in Gaza is appalling, Israel continues to escalate its attacks on the Palestinian people during what is supposed to be a ceasefire. It’s an utter sham and disgusting. The UN and complicit western governments say or do...
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