Before there were airport coffee queues and direct flights to Melbourne, there was a crowd of 2,000 people waiting to see a plane land in Ballina.

Local Ballina Shire primary school students rolled up their sleeves and put water science into action as part of Rous County Council’s inaugural Young Water Leaders event.

Nature Conservation Council NSW (NCC), the state's leading environmental advocacy organisation, is calling on the Minns government to put in place an urgent moratorium on floodplain harvesting to ensure the current flood is used to prepare rivers and wetlands for the coming El Niño summer, not as a bonanza for big irrigators.

For the second consecutive year, Ballina Dragon Boat Racing Club has won the 21 km 'Three Bridges Long Paddle' in a time of 1 hour 55 minutes 23 seconds.

Aston Private has expanded its Northern Rivers services by launching Aston at Home, an outpatient service for people who would benefit from treatment while staying at home and connected to daily life.