Tweed Shire has a new mayor, with councillor Reece Byrnes elected to the top job following a vote at Thursday’s council meeting.

September and October are gearing up to be huge months for Brunswick Picture House, with many highlights in its packed program.

When around 300 screen practitioners gathered at Lennox Head last week for ScreenWorks' two-day Regional to Global Screen Forum, the setting was half the story. Here was a serious industry conversation happening a long way from Sydney or Melbourne, and after many successful years, nobody was treating that as a novelty.

The Bangalow community are coming out in all their colour, uniforms, and fury this Saturday, 19 September from 2pm to raise their voice in protest at their treatment by Norths Collective who, they say, have not met the commitments they made to the Bangalow Bowlo, and the community, when they took over the club.

The Transit Centre bathrooms will reopen this week, after extensive repairs and refurbishment were required following repeated incidents of vandalism.