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June 25, 2026

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NSW budget and the Northern Rivers

The Minns government says it's handed down a budget which locks in major funding for North Coast health infrastructure, alongside targeted cost-of-living relief designed for regional households and disaster recovery, as locals continue to face higher costs.
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Tweed keeps rate increase below rate of inflation

Tweed Shire Council says it has adopted one of the lowest rate increases in the cross-border region for 2026/27, with the average household bill rising around 3.6 per cent once all charges are counted. This is below the current annual rate of inflation of 4.2 per cent.
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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Vagina-Maxxing

It’s a thing. It popped into my newsfeed as a story. I had to click. I mean, what new vagina fashion has come into play. Maxxing? Is this some new big vagina trend? Are our vaginas now not ‘big’ enough? Are we trying to create a spare room in our womb?
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Dancing and fundraising for our children’s future

The recent premeditated killings of several children in Australia by their fathers has raised the issue of filicide (the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child) alongside the issue of domestic violence (DV) and femicide (the intentional murder of women or girls) as key areas that need research to help understand why these things happen.
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Pauline at the Press Club, and on Planet Gina

Last week Australia had a glimpse of what life might be like under Prime Minister Pauline Hanson, via two speeches, one in Canberra and one in Townsville.
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Six dwellings proposed on flood-prone Mullum block

Six units are proposed at the eastern end of New City Road, Mullumbimby, on a site that was inundated during the 2022 floods. Submitted by Duncan Band's Kollective, Development Application (DA) 10.2026.269.1 at 73 New City Road is on public exhibition with Byron Shire Council, and sits within the Shire's flood planning area.
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No Small Thing: NRCF Women’s Giving Circle event, Murwillumbah

Cheek Media founder, Hannah Ferguson, will headline a panel of prominent women leaders at the Regent Theatre in Murwillumbah next Thursday, in an event the organisers say brings, 'the kind of line-up you'd usually travel to Sydney for' to the Northern Rivers.
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North Coast Market Guide

Rainbow Chai Tent - Peace Day at the marketsThe easy place to check what market is on!

Here in The Echo‘s Market Guide you can find all monthly markets and the weekly farmers markets from around the Northern Rivers /  NSW North Coast. To list a market here or request us to update some information please contact us.

Monthly Markets

1st SAT | Brunswick Heads Markets – 8am–2pm

1st SUN | Byron Community Market – 8am–3pm
1st SUN | Pottsville Beach Markets – 7am–1pm

2nd SUN | The Channon Craft Market – 9am–3pm
2nd SUN | Chillingham Markets – 8am–1pm
2nd SUN | Coolangatta Arts & Craft Markets – 8am–2pm
2nd SUN | Tabulam Community Market – 9am–1pm

3rd SAT | Mullumbimby Community Market – 8am–2pm
3rd SAT | Murwillumbah Makers & Finders Market – 9am–2pm
3rd SAT | Salt Beach Markets, South Kingscliff/Casuarina – 8am–1pm

3rd SUN | Federal Village Market – 8am–2pm
3rd SUN | Uki Buttery Bazaar Market – 8am–2pm
3rd SUN | Pottsville Beach Markets – 7am–1pm
3rd SUN | Lismore City Bowlo Markets – 9am–1pm
3rd SUN (Dec & Jan) | Byron Community Market – 8am–3pm

4th SAT | Kyogle Bazaar – 9am–2pm

Last SAT | Evans Head Rotary Market – 8am–1pm

4th SUN | Bangalow Market – 8am–2.30pm
4th SUN | Nimbin Markets – 9am–3pm
4th SUN | Murwillumbah Showground Market – 8am–1pm
4th SUN (in a 5 Sunday month) | Coolangatta – 8am–2pm

5th SUN | Nimbin Markets – 8.30am–3pm

Occasional/Seasonal Markets

Byron Beachside Market – four times a year:
Wed 7th Jan 2026, Easter Friday, Sat 11th July and Sat 26th Sept

Farmers/Weekly Markets

Each TUE | New Brighton Farmers Market – 7am–11am
Each TUE | Lismore Organic Market – 7.30am–10.30am

Each WED | Murwillumbah Farmers’ Market – 7am–11am
Each WED | Nimbin Farmers Market – 3pm–6pm
Each WED | Newrybar Hall Twilight Market – 3pm–7.30pm

Each THU | Byron Bay Farmers Market – 7am–11am
Each THU | Lismore Produce Market – 3pm–6pm

Each FRI | Mullumbimby Farmers Market – 7am–11am
Each FRI | Evans Head Farmers Market – 2.30pm–6.30pm

Each SAT | Bangalow Farmers Market – 7am–11am
Each SAT | Duranbah Road Farmers Market (at Tropical Fruit World) 8am–11am
Each SAT | Uki Farmers Market – 8am–1pm
Each SAT | Lismore Farmers Market – 7.30am–11.30am
Each SAT | Byron Twilight Market (October to April) 4pm–9pm

Each SUN | Ballina Farmers & Producers Market – 7am–11am

Photos by Eve Jeffery

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Appeal to locate missing woman

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Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a woman missing from the Kempsey area.
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Citizen science last line of defence for threatened species

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Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.
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Site confirmed for future high school at Pottsville

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The NSW government says it has secured a site for a future high school in Pottsville, delivering on its commitment to future-proof public education for the growing Tweed community in the Northern Rivers.
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Eleven winners at Byron Bay Herb Nursery

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The Byron Bay Herb Nursery continues to create constructive pathways to achievement with twelve students from Byron Bay Herb Nursery’s disability support program recently graduating with a Certificate II in Horticulture.
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