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Taqueria in Byron celebrates four years
Chupacabra Mexican restaurant in Suffolk Park is turning four this week! Through the ups and downs of the past...
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Australia to light the way with industrial-scale power
Big ideas are easy. Finding the big money and big names to back them is not. But a long-term plan to turn WA’s Pilbara into the largest renewable energy hub in the world has just taken a giant leap forward.
Will Byron become the Malibu of the antipodes?
Here’s another reason for millennials to be marching on the street. We found out last week that on census day 2021, 15 per cent of the dwellings in the Byron Shire were unoccupied (2,348 places to be precise). That figure was 30 per cent in Byron Bay itself, three times the national average.
Lake Ainsworth
The heavy rain on 28–30 March 2022 resulted in flooding of Lake Ainsworth at Lennox Head to about 2m...
Celebrating 40 years of Fig Tree Restaurant
It all started with a simple dream, to convert its original farmhouse in Ewingsdale into a restaurant in which...
Attempt to manage Byron’s fragile coastline impeded by State Government, report finds
Insufficient funding and guidance from the State Government is inhibiting Byron Council's attempt to effectively manage its famous but fragile coastline, a Council report has revealed.
Tweed Council to sponsor community events
With disasters like fires, floods and pandemics, still smouldering in our recent memory, Tweed Shire Council wants to know if you have an event that will help the Tweed community reconnect and celebrate after tough times?
Stories about "Australian Small Business Champion Awards":
Flood-affected Tweed firm wins business award
Amid the turmoil of the North Coast flooding, Chinderah landscaping and lawn maintenance firm Early Up has been crowned the winner of the Home and Garden Improvement category in the Australian Small Business Champion Awards.
The Good Life
Celebrating 40 years of Fig Tree Restaurant
It all started with a simple dream, to convert its original farmhouse in Ewingsdale into a restaurant in which its guests could gather to...
The Good Life
Crabbes Creek Woodfired
By V. Cosford
There’s a contingent of Europeans who don’t mind travelling a considerable distance in order to stock up on Jon and Gina Hutton’s...
The Good Life
Stone & Wood’s Brewery Festival Returns
Stone & Wood are opening the gates to their Murwillumbah brewery with the return of their ‘Murbah Open Day’, on Saturday 6 August.
Welcoming the...
Byron Echo
Decades of volunteering earn prestigious NSW Sports Award
Brenda Zakaras and John Beasley from Lennox Head were two of 19 sports volunteers from a wide cross-section of sports who received a Distinguished...