For over 30 years, Amitayus Home Hospice Service has been providing palliative support and non-medical assistance to people at end of life, or living with life-limiting conditions who wish to remain at home as long as possible.
Byron Council has begun moving ahead with its plan to create a hybrid water supply scheme for Mullumbimby.
A new flood study commissioned by Byron Shire Council has identified five key flood flashpoints in Bangalow, including the current location of the local fire station. In a development with significant implications for emergency management, community safety, and future building...
Construction has progressed rapidly on fifty build-to-rent homes in Lismore since breaking ground last November, says the NSW Labor Government.
Waste management is a core business for councils, and late last year, a question to Council’s top brass revealed much around how our local waste is managed.
In the hills just outside of Mullumbimby a vital, but oft forgotten piece of the town’s history, is quietly celebrating its 100th birthday.
With the US and Israel’s war on Iran unlikely to end soon, Australia’s lack of fuel security is worth a closer look.
Oh, Sharon (Echo Letters, 6 March). As you know, we live in a democracy; our model is good, but not perfect. As a young Professional Engineer I worked for the state government and was involved in ‘flooding six houses’. The...
The Rolling Stones recorded ‘Salt of the Earth’ in May 1968, according to Wikipedia. The song was reportedly inspired by John Lennon, with Jagger attempting to write a working-class anthem. The lyrics lament the fate of ‘us average people’. Written...
Which lies to believe? The empire of lies seems to have met its match. Not many can fit the ‘I’ word five times into one sentence. China says barking dogs don’t bite. Russia is booming while slowly devouring Ukraine. Iran’s 80+...
Congratulations to Kathryn McConnochie and Patricia Warren. Truth, told, cannot be denied. There are very sad aspects to the neglect by our governments, which have long failed the people in the housing crisis, and of course, neglected to deliver social...
As part of International Women’s Day, the Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce brought local entrepreneurs together last week for the Byron’s Badass Women of Business event at Elements of Byron.
About 170 nude cyclists did a couple of blocks around Byron on Sunday to raucous cheers and the applause of onlookers.
Author Kathy Lette was in Bangalow last Friday to promote her latest witty novel, Sisterhood Rules. She was in conversation with Nell Schofield, who starred in the Puberty Blues film, which was based on the book by Lette and...
With the community-led effort to protect rare ecological and protected wetlands in Brunswick Heads from urbanisation coming to a conclusion in the courts soon, Save Wallum have appealed to Greens Mayor Sarah Ndiaye to support the release of Council’s confidential legal advice.
The team at Stone & Wood are heartbroken at the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Jess Flynn, who passed away last week after an accident, while on holiday in Java.
When there is a mooted new medication for a disease, there is a detailed process for approval which has developed over centuries. There are experiments and several phases of trials and eventually, when and only when, it jumps all...
I wish to thank Ginny Black for sharing remarkable historical information about deadly toxins identified in the Byron Shire waters when her husband was alive and her current sharing that her husband died from Hodgkins lymphoma. I am so...
I’m a Christian based locally and have been reading recent letters in The Echo, including those from John Scrivener and Danny Wakil, with growing unease. Israel is often painted as the villain, while some basic facts quietly disappear. Israel is...
This morning I looked out my window and saw my neighbour and her two children on their way out. The little one had a large teddy tucked under his arm. There were smiles and laughter, an outing that they...
Crude oil refineries, terminals, and tankers cannot be defended, so by blocking the flow of crude oil and essential food imports through the straits and bombing the desalination plants, America’s oil-rich Persian Gulf allies can be devastated and hence...
Byron Bay is one of four north coast towns chosen by the NSW government for a Regional Night-Time Economy Program pilot.
From a gym on the main drag in Lennox Head, to a new home at Epiq and a second gym in Byron, Surfit is on a steep learning and growth trajectory – now celebrating their first year, Surfit gym Byron Bay is looking toward the future and many more years ahead.
It seems ironic, that in a life where so many of us have strived to be remembered, the real challenge, the greater subversion, is in fact the opposite: the right to be forgotten. And here in Australia, we don’t have the statutory right to erasure like they do in the EU, which means it’s pretty standard for private information about you to be easily found by third parties through search engines.
With interest in Cr Delta Kay’s passed motion in Council, for eco-tourism advancement in our shire, I see great potential in the possibility of liberating parts of our future rail trail corridor land to the planting of known local...
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