A five year old temporary AVO preventing Council critic Fast Buck$, aka John Anderson, from approaching Greens Mayor Sarah Ndiaye has been thrown out in court.

An Apprehended Violence Order application against Mullumbimby man Jai Oden-Jenkins is to be heard in Byron Bay Local Court today.

Tweed Byron police say they arrested eight people in the space of a week for assaults in a domestic violence context.

Changes introduced last year to NSW law that the government says are aimed at boosting safety for domestic and family violence victim-survivors have come into effect.

Independent Byron Shire councillor, Michael Lyon, appeared in the Tweed Heads Criminal Court this morning for what turned out to be his last appearance in the matter concerning an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) that the police sought against him in August last year.

While Cr Michael Lyon was affirming himself to undertake the duties of office on Thursday morning, what most people didn’t know was that he had recently spent a night in the police watch house after allegedly breaching an AVO placed on him in August.

An interim order prohibiting reporting of the AVO and criminal case in which Byron Shire mayor Michael Lyon is the defendant has been lifted.

Expectations surrounding the upcoming Byron Shire Council elections have been thrown in the air with the revelation that the police are seeking an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) against Byron Shire Mayor, Michael Baden Lyon.

Independent Byron Shire Councillor Mark Swivel has joined the Labor Party and is backing Cr Asren Pugh for mayor in September’s local government elections. The...

The Byron Shire Mayor, Michael Lyon, has made a public statement on his mayoral Facebook page in response to the publication of a court date for an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) hearing and a criminal listing at the Tweed Heads courthouse.