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How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...

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Call to keep Bangalow Showgrounds in community hands

The Bangalow Park Trust, a volunteer community group that have successfully run the Bangalow Showgrounds since at least the 1950s, say they just want to get on with managing the showgrounds and don’t want Byron Shire Council to take over their role.

Safer roads for North Coast

Richmond MP Justine Elliot has announced that the Albanese government is delivering more than $4.6 million in federal funding from the 2026-27 Black Spot Program to improve road safety at four sites across the North Coast.

Data centres for the Northern Rivers?

What regulations are there to stop or manage data centres in the Northern Rivers?

Two rescues in one day

Last Friday, Queensland Government Air (QGAir) Rescue 500 was tasked with two separate search and rescues in Tallebudgera Valley.

On rail

Northern Rivers Railway Restoration: Licensing Progress: Northern Rivers Rail Ltd (NRRL) and Northern Regional Railway Company (NRRC) are highly...

Tweed Shire Council update

Tweed Council's latest meeting included motions on solar panel recycling, free speech, financial sustainability and Clarrie Hall Dam.

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Horror day for Tasmanian forests and wildlife

Environmentalists have described yesterday’s detonation of more than 20 ‘regeneration burns’ in Tasmania’s forests as a day of horror for the Tasmanian wilds.

Fighting for forests

As some Lismore and Ballina councillors seek to prevent further protections for local koala habitat, ruling out extensions to the Great Koala National Park, Northern Rivers Guardians have announced two public events focusing on forests, happening later this month in Lismore.

Choosing extinction over science?

Bob Brown Foundation says newly-released freedom of information documents show that the Albanese government chose to ignore the science relating to the threatened Maugean Skate and other species.

Tasmanian logging sites and mill shut down as protests escalate

Twenty forest defenders protested at the Smithton Ta Ann mill yesterday, while more than 100 forest defenders are involved in frontline actions across three sites as part of Bob Brown Foundation’s Forest Resistance Tour.

Loggers move machines into critical glider refuge

Bob Brown Foundation is calling for the immediate removal of logging machines from a critical greater glider habitat on New South Wales' south coast and urgent protection of native forests.

Algal blooms and dead marine life raise alarm in Tasmania

Reports and images are now coming in of what appears to be a red tide in places such as Randalls Bay, Little Roaring Beach, Little Taylors Bay and elsewhere up and down the D'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania.

Forests on national agenda as government wants to lock in more logging

Murray Watt's lifeline to loggers won’t save native forests, says Bob Brown Foundation, as forest protests continue in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Murray Watt’s EPBC Bill will sink swift parrots, says Bob Brown Foundation

Bob Brown Foundation has recorded critically endangered swift parrots across their Tasmanian breeding territory, in multiple forests on the logging schedule, including two nesting pairs of the critically endangered parrots in a forest behind Dover.

Tasmanian activists stage dead whale crime scene to protest industrial krill fishing

Activists have today unveiled a life-sized dead juvenile humpback out the front of the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic and Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) building in Hobart, calling for an end to krill fishing in Antarctica.

Stop-work forest protest as swift parrots return to Tasmania

This morning, veteran forest defender Ali Alishah has attached himself to the only access gate leading into a sub-alpine forest in the Central Highlands that Forestry Tasmania refers to as BD052A. This forest, near Brady Lake, contains large numbers of Eucalyptus dalrympleana and the critically endangered swift parrot has been documented here.

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.