Ending rough sleeping is no small challenge for Byron Shire and the Northern Rivers but that is the aim of the Ending Rough Sleeping Collaboration and the release of the 1,000 Voices Byron Shire report just released.
Last Thursday saw Destination Byron bring together over 150 attendees looking at the future of Byron and its visitor economy.
Northern Rivers Animal Services Inc (NRAS) are hoping the sun will be out for their monthly adoption day on Saturday, 4 July from 10am until 1pm at the NRAS Rescue Shelter at 61 Piper Drive, Ballina.
I was a home birth. I chose to have my children in a hospital. That was my choice. There is a lot of attention going to freebirthing at the moment. But the reality is that women have been freebirthing since they started birthing. That’s a damn long time.
Close to 40 years ago, at a time when the ozone layer was threatened and revealing ‘holes’ in same, the climate science narratives warned humanity of the huge threat that this situation presented to the survival of humanity and...
Right across the planet, the soccer World Cup is grandstanding multiculturalism in all its splendour! It’s a great kick in the guts for all the anti-woke, anti-immigrant, anti-diversity, neo-fascist right (wrong) wing conservatives who have hijacked the Divided States of...
I was so shocked to see on our Council community page that company Micromax has been employed to do a survey of our residents to gauge if we are disappointed with our services provided by Council. Council has not...
The 2026 Byron Writers Festival program puts women front and centre. Journalists, novelists, and an award-winning columnist bring an extraordinary breadth of stories to Bundjalung Country this August.
Byron Writers Festival talks with best-selling author Osher Günsberg whose new book, So What? Now What? is a mental health toolkit and a compelling follow-up to his critically-acclaimed 2018 memoir, Back, After The Break.
Some songs arrive quickly. Others sit half-finished in notebooks, voice memos or guitar cases for years before somebody finally hears them.
Northern Rivers journalist Mia Armitage has been selected for a prestigious international internship with Germany’s public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.
Thirty years and a stellar lineup is coming your way with this year’s Byron Writers Festival,14–16 August.
Byron Council will investigate private sponsorship, tourism partnerships, and smaller staged projects as it seeks a new path forward for the long-delayed Northern Rivers Rail Trail (NRRT) after a major federal funding bid failed.
In 2011, Channel 9 scored a one-on-one interview with the Daili Lama during his Australian tour. It was handed to their larrikan breakfast guy – Karl Stefanovic.
This Thursday, 2 July (tonight) the Northern Rivers Community Foundation (NRCF) Women’s Giving Circle is bringing a stellar lineup of leaders to the Regent Theatre in Murwillumbah to discuss how progress happens across climate, gender equality, media, democracy, and community action – and why local action still matters.
Celebrating the history, culture, and achievements of First Nations Australians, NAIDOC Week runs from 5-12 July with the theme ‘50 Years of Deadly’.
The Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) has called a public meeting for Monday, 13 July at 6pm at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club to discuss the modified development application (DA 10.2025.212.1) for the carpark at 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby.
Public transport in the Northern Rivers currently consists of a few buses that run infrequently and have very few passengers. Friends of mine have had to move from the area when they can no longer drive a car. This is surely...
Residents of Morrison Ave Mullumbimby, rest assured you are not alone. I have been writing to Byron Shire Council (BSC) for 15 years requesting Council to fix the death trap called Blackbean Lane Federal. Council informed me that half...
Just when you think it can’t get any worse on the roads, dodging e-bikes and ridiculous-sized vehicles, now we get impatient and aggressive morons who want to overtake at stop signs! Slow down people! Rod Murray, Ocean Shores
I was horrified when my eyes landed on the resubmitted housing/commercial DA by Landcom and Byron Shire Council at 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby. It’s a very vital convenient carpark – haven’t we ‘been there done that’? It was previously rejected by...
In last week’s Echo, there was a wonderful editorial, plus another article about the Station Street development for affordable housing in Mullumbimby. The essence I received from both articles was there has to be change in the way we as...
Thanks councillors Warth, Hauge, Ndiaye, Kay and Lowe for holding the line against the conservatives (Lyon, Dods and Labor) and Council staff, who all want to close Lavertys Gap Weir as a water source and use only Rous’s water...
There is a beautiful large, bright, orange-flowered tree, the African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata), which grows vigorously in our Northern Rivers. You will see it on any drive around your area. Unfortunately, its flowers are highly toxic to our native...
What on Earth is going on in Jonson Street, Byron Bay? I ventured to the newsagent in the middle of town on Saturday morning at 6am when it’s still dark, and found it surrounded by a wall of orange barricades. It...
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