Multi-dwellings comprising six, two storey, three bedroom detached dwellings and six swimming pools is being proposed across 18, 20 and 22 Autumn Crt, in West Byron.

Recent big swells over the last week have severely eroded dunes across the region – in  Byron Shire, Council say the most impacted beaches are New Brighton and Suffolk Park.

Detectives from the Gold Coast Child Protection and Investigation Unit (CPIU) have charged two teenagers and New South Wales Police (NSWPOL) have charged a man following a cross-border operation targeting the trafficking and supply of illegal drugs between New South Wales and Queensland.

With the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase the national minimum wage by 4.75%, Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is calling for further action to support people doing it tough, as well as the frontline community services helping them. “People are under severe pressure from interest rate rises, rent increases, higher fuel costs, and growing economic uncertainty due to the conflict in the Middle East,” said ACOSS Acting CEO Edwina MacDonald.

A fifteen-year-old is to face court later this month accused of a crash in Mullumbimby that police say left another child hospitalised while the offender fled the scene.