An extraordinary amount of literary talent calls the Northern Rivers home, and in its 30th year the Byron Writers Festival is celebrating with an incredible local lineup, joining Trent Dalton, Geetanjali Shree, Evelyn Araluen, Steve Toltz, Melissa Lucashenko and others.

At the recent Byron Shire Council (BSC) meeting, all councillors supported Cr Delta Kay’s motion to begin the process of getting eco-tourism and destination certification for Byron Shire through Ecotourism Australia.

Old Bangalow Road was once a quiet, leafy backwater – the kind of place where the arrival of a car was greeted with mild surprise. These days the road is, to use a local phrase, ‘like flamin’ Pitt Street’.

Hundreds of people claiming their right not to celebrate gathered as one mob in Apex Park on Byron Bay's Main Beach yesterday, for Survival Day.

History was made at the Byron Council chambers last week when two First Nations women were sworn in as local councillors.

The first and only Aboriginal councillor to be voted onto Byron Shire Council was Jimmy Budd, who was elected in 1991. 

Labor mayoral candidate Asren Pugh has conceded defeat in the September 14 local government elections, with Greens candidate Sarah Ndiaye poised to become Byron Shire Council’s new mayor.

Counting in the 2024 Byron Shire Council election after polling booths closed Saturday suggested a Greens-majority was again in sight for the first time since 2016.

Plenty of local businesses were winners at the North Coast Tourism Awards which celebrated the top tourism operators who gathered to celebrate their achievements and honour the industry's leading performers. 

Organised and MC’d by Mandy Nolan and daughter of a resident, Maree Eddings, those gathered in the sweltering heat to make sure their numbers were counted.