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

Broadwater Public School students, teachers and parents today celebrated the return to their rebuilt school with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the start of a new chapter for the community.

NSW State Emergency Service (SES) warns significant storm and flood risk are still possible for Northern NSW and is urging communities to remain vigilant.   ‘In...

Broadwater and Rileys Hill prepare to evacuate due to predicted coastal inundation flooding.

During the 2022 floods Broadwater Public School, on the floodplain at the confluence of the Richmond and Tuckean Broadwater rivers, was destroyed.

With the aim of improving road safety with a focus on vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists, the Mid Richmond Three Villages Cycleway project has received a financial boost.

More than 3,500 homes in and south of Lismore were reportedly still without power this morning after an overnight storm.

The construction of the Broadwater Public School, which is in the middle of the floodplain at the confluence of the Richmond and Tuckean Broadwater rivers, has begun.

Richmond Valley Council refused a development application for a 60-lot residential development on flood-prone land on Rileys Hill Road, Broadwater, close to the Richmond River in October 2023. 

In February and March 2022, our region was subject to a series of weather events that causeed one of the nation’s worst recorded flood disasters. The economic impact of a natural disaster can be felt far beyond the damage to housing and infrastructure.