Unspeakable: Facing up to the climate catastrophe and its consequences in Australia by authors Professor Richard Hil and Dr Jean Renouf, both of whom live and work in the Northern Rivers, launches on Wednesday, 26 August at The Regent Cinema, Murwillumbah from 5pm.

Brunswick SLSC patrol captain, Simon Ceglinski, has been awarded NSW Surf Life Saving Officer of the Year at the 12th annual Rotary Emergency Services Community Awards (RESCA) at Bankstown Sports Club.

Tweed Shire Council has secured funding to stock Australian Bass in Clarrie Hall Dam, says Nationals Member for Tweed Geoff Provest.

Locals have expressed frustration at a public meeting in Kyogle around a controversial CSRIO report aimed at reducing flooding, with residents asking for more details around mapping which could have significant impacts on properties and farmland.

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.

Tweed Shire Council is telling the full story of how the Tweed community has rebuilt since the 2022 floods, and further damage from the 2024 floods and Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Over the coming weeks, Tweed Shire Council will present a flood resilience series, which looks at how 'Tweed's story is different from the standard flood recovery narrative and what happened next'.

Residents in Ballina and Wardell will have more more localised flood warnings, giving them time to prepare before floodwaters arrives, thanks to new flood forecast services along the Richmond River.

Flood-impacted homeowners across the Northern Rivers and Central West will have more time to make decisions to raise or retrofit homes, says the NSW government, with an  extension to the Resilient Homes Program timelines announced.

A stretch of Wilsons Creek Road, between Upper Wilsons Creek and Alidenes Road, has fully reopened, four years after serious damage from the 2022...