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Road workers strike first time in decades
Road workers, construction crews and other Transport for NSW workers will walk off the job for the first time in decades on Thursday, as frustrations over the NSW Government's effective pay cut boil over.
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Two confirmed cases of diphtheria in northern NSW
On Saturday evening the North Coast Public Health Unit confirmed that there was a case of diphtheria in a two-year-old child in Northern NSW.
A poem
Row upon row
Lest we forget
the rows of trees
they planted to recall
the rows of boys
they sent to die
in the war
Jon...
Bangalow clinches thriller in rugby derby against Byron Bay
Bangalow beat Byron Bay on the final bell 21–20 in front of a home crowd last Saturday after a...
Two whales simultaneously entangled in shark nets off SEQ coast today
Two whales have been entangled in shark nets on Queensland's coast today, one at Kirra Beach on the Gold Coast and the other at Marcoola Beach on the Sunshine Coast, Humane Society International says.
Australia to light the way with industrial-scale power
Big ideas are easy. Finding the big money and big names to back them is not. But a long-term plan to turn WA’s Pilbara into the largest renewable energy hub in the world has just taken a giant leap forward.
Crabbes Creek Woodfired
By V. Cosford
There’s a contingent of Europeans who don’t mind travelling a considerable distance in order to stock up...
Stories about "counterfeit":
Counterfeit cash alert
Police on the Northern Rivers are warning community members and businesses to be on alert for fake cash.
Local News
Extreme fire weather days in Australia have doubled
Extreme fire weather days in Australia have doubled, yet according to new research from an international team of scientists, including the CSIRO, extreme fire weather days have increased in Australia by 56 per cent over the last four decades.
Entertainment News
Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 6 July, 2022
Now showing at HOTA (Home of the Arts), Come From Away tells the remarkable true story of thousands of stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland, Canada, that welcomed them all.
Byron Echo
Developer fees and charges cut
Paul Bibby - 0
Council fees for construction and development in Byron were the equivalent of paying $160 for a coffee, making it ‘entirely unviable’ to invest here, industry representatives told the Council last week.
Mandy Nolan's Soapbox
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: To Hall and Back
Mandy Nolan - 0
There is something magical about a country hall. These small wooden buildings dot the landscape. They have a frugal modesty and an old fashioned generosity. If they had names they’d be called Thelma or Rose or Alan. They’re a pungent olfactory mix of last week’s wedding enmeshed with yesterday’s committee meeting. Curry and Jatz, tea and beer, tears and laughter.
