Predictions for the Tweed Rail Trail of 25,000 users a year have been blown out of the water with the last two years seeing over 90,000 users a year Pat Grier, President of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail Supporters told The Echo.

A grant of $538,560 has seen an invigorated Crabbes Creek Community Hall officially reopened with upgrades to improve safety, accessibility and flood resilience. 


Over a thousand students from public schools across the NSW north coast came together last week for a very special kids festival celebrating music and song.

Friday will see the Tweed Shire Australia Day Awards, to be held in Murwillumbah followed by a number of events throughout the Tweed Shire on Sunday, 26 January. 

The Crabbes Creek Community Hall is heading towards. major upgrade and Tweed Shire Council is seeking community feedback on a draft concept plan for the work to make it a safer and more inclusive space for gatherings, events and activities.

A teenage learner driver must wait six months before being allowed back behind the wheel – or throttle – after police caught him speeding on the highway in the Tweed Shire.

On Sunday a 75 year-old man fell down the steep side of the Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail near Crabbes Creek and breaking his hip. 

A new automated flash flood alert system for the villages of Burringbar, Mooball and Crabbes Creek is being launched following a successful trial last summer.

For those who are keen to access the Tweed section of the rail trail the reality is in sight. Tweed Shire Council has announced that it will be open to the public early, subject to weather.

The old Pacific Hiway was dangerous, narrow and needed to be upgraded but in the process of building the M1 the government didn’t just cut coastal koalas from hinterland koalas, they also appear to have created flooding issues according to many locals from Woodburn to Tweed.