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High risk vehicles to be stopped and checked for fire ants at NSW Qld border
The detection of Red Imported Fire Ants at South Murwillumbah has seen a quick response from the Department of Primary Industries who have now started their next wave of operation in response.
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Can’t help myself
Heard while passing a young couple anxiously looking east from top of the lighthouse walk: Where are they? There...
Artisanal cheeses from Nimbin Valley
Paul Wilson is telling me about their new chilli garlic halloumi and how it’s ‘fantastic over summer served with a green paw-paw salad,’ and my imagination is fired. It’s a rare thing for this hinterland business – around for some 17 years now, Paul and Kerry at the helm – to introduce a new cheese as ‘we try to stay focused on traditionally hand-made cheeses.’ And their stable of 12 – best sellers the Nashua washed rind and Tintenbar triple cream – include both cow and goat milk cheeses.
High risk vehicles to be stopped and checked for fire ants at NSW Qld border
The detection of Red Imported Fire Ants at South Murwillumbah has seen a quick response from the Department of Primary Industries who have now started their next wave of operation in response.
Failing system creates more trauma for flood victims
Don’t ask me how my house is. Please. This question brings forth an escalated spike in my nervous system, and a sense of panic and dread.
First West Byron DA pushes planning rules
Plans for the first major residential development within the West Byron urban release area feature nearly a dozen breaches of planning and environmental protection rules and should not be approved, Byron Council staff say.
Editorial – Don’t know, don’t care
The victorious ‘No’ camp is oddly reluctant to examine the roots of its cruel snub to our First Nations peoples.
Stories about "Cape Byron Lighthouse":
Vale Norma ‘Nu’ McCabe 1927–2019
Norma Reilly lived a varied life, from jillaroo to living at the Cape Byron Lighthouse before setting happily in Mullumbimby for her retirement.
Man rescued from Cape Byron
A man has been rescued from the cliff face beneath the Cape Byron Lighthouse after police and rescue workers were called to the site at around 11am.
Lighthouse is its own best work of art
Clive Jeffery, Mullumbimby.
The Council, Councillors and the Public Art Panel are all surely joking! Aren’t they?
Commissioning a sculpture 12.0 metres high in the form...
Keeping a lighthouse was a family affair
The light was the priority and it took the commitment of everyone to ensure it beamed out each night and keep boats from being smashed on the rocks. Byron lighthouse museum has recognised the important role that lighthouse keepers and their families played with their recently opened exhibition at Care Byron lighthouse.
Road closed after incident at Byron Lighthouse
Police and emergency services have closed Lighthouse Road at Byron Bay and are asking motorists and pedestrians to avoid the area after an earlier incident at Cape Byron Lighthouse.
Byron Lighthouse to turn red for World AIDS Day
Cape Byron Lighthouse will be lit in red for three nights from tonight to celebrate World AIDS Day (December 1).
‘Flying saucer crashed into Byron Lighthouse’
Ballina Greens MP Tamara Smith has lashed out at a new structure at the Cape Byron Lighthouse café describing it as looking like a flying saucer has crashed into the lighthouse.
Will Byron be the next Venice?
Charles McFarland, Ewingsdale. This morning I took a walk on the Lighthouse Track, thinking that the National Park, at least, would be unchanged. Alas, no. The terrace by the cafe near the lighthouse is being torn up, so the cafe is closed. If you are thinking about enjoying a reviving beverage while calmly enjoying the view, forget it.
Cape Byron Lighthouse to get LED lighting
Renovations are underway at the Cape Byron Lighthouse that will include upgrading the light source of the lens to modern LED (light emitting diode) bulbs after painting works are complete, as part of a trial.
Bright flash, then blackness: lighthouse goes dark
Anyone looking towards Cape Byron on Tuesday night would have had the spooky experience of seeing… nothing. The familiar sweep of light from the lighthouse was gone.
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Kingscliff hosts largest triathlon since covid
Over 1,600 athletes were in Kingscliff over the weekend to participate in the largest triathlon since covid.
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Vale Pam Sonia
Very sadly, local treasure Pam Sonia passed away in Ewingsdale, last Wednesday, December 6.
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Blue-green algae ‘amber alert’ at Lake Ainsworth
As the summer heats up there has been an increase in the blue-green algae at Lake Ainsworth near Lennox Head and an ‘amber alert' has been flagged by Ballina Shire Council.
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Lismore to host National Junior Baseball competition
The biggest junior baseball competition in Australia, which is a feeder into the US World Series will be held in Lismore in May 2024.
