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Tweed Council rejects Casuarina disability viewing platform
Issues of queue jumping, the allocation of Tweed Shire Council’s resources in both time and money, and responding to...
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Interview with Michael Balson, creator of Ocean to Sky
Local filmmaker helps tell the story of Edmund Hillary’s last adventure, in the film, Ocean to Sky
Ballina sludge a mixture of blue-green algae species
A reader has sent Echonetdaily some photos of what he described as 'something nasty and green coming down the Richmond River'.
Motion to save Lennox pavilion fails
Ballina Cr Eoin Johnston's attempt to save the seventy year old weather shed at Lennox Head went down at council's meeting yesterday, attracting only one other councillor's support.
Community bar – not
Liz Levy, Suffolk Park
I couldn’t believe what I was reading in The Echo: a plan to turn an ‘iconic’...
Cut it down – Tweed Councillors at odds over future of forest red gum
‘We should be active and take the tree down,’ Cr Polglase told the Tweed Shire Council meeting last Thursday, referring to a significant forest red gum and koala food tree in Tweed Heads West.
Final stage of Lismore Base Hospital gets underway
The redevelopment works commenced in late 2016 and the final stage is now getting underway to complete the Lismore Base Hospital refurbishment.
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Friday’s 4 the locals
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Rebecca and the Wild Bear
Rebecca Ireland has been a local to the far north coast for around two decades – here she has found,...
Byron Echo
Bringing down the heat in our ‘hood
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How well we survive the future depends on our vision for our towns and suburbs – and on how we bring that vision about.
Byron Echo
Resilience through biodiversity and awareness
The Byron Shire Resilience and Regeneration Roadshow will be in Brunswick Heads this Saturday, as part of a series of events across the region tackling the question: ‘How do we create more resilient communities in 2021?’
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Housing affordability on agenda at Ballina
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With the housing crisis worsening in Ballina and across the Northern Rivers, councillors agreed that something had to be done about the problem at their meeting yesterday.
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Final stage of Lismore Base Hospital gets underway
The redevelopment works commenced in late 2016 and the final stage is now getting underway to complete the Lismore Base Hospital refurbishment.