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NSW budget and the Northern Rivers

The Minns government says it's handed down a budget which locks in major funding for North Coast health infrastructure, alongside targeted cost-of-living relief designed for regional households and disaster recovery, as locals continue to face higher costs.
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Flood gauges installed in Ballina and Wardell 

Residents in Ballina and Wardell will have more more localised flood warnings, giving them time to prepare before floodwaters arrives, thanks to new flood forecast services along the Richmond River.
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Byron EchoBen Fawcett, Wilsons Creek - 0

Mullum water supply, a new twist

Debates on the future of Mullumbimby’s water supply took a new twist at Council’s meeting on 18 June. The latest...
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Byron EchoSunil Badami - 0

AI: Artificial Intelligence, or Artificial Inflation?

It feels as if AI is everywhere – whether it’s those intrusive bots on every website or every headline about how it’s either going to be a boon for humanity, or end us.
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Appeal to locate missing woman

Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a woman missing from the Kempsey area.
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Local NewsPamela Veness, Tweed Water Alliance - 0

Tweed Water Alliance and the future of the region’s water

Community concern about large-scale water extraction in a quiet rural area, the use of heavy vehicle trucking on narrow, winding, country roads and unsustainable one-use bottling led to the formation of Tweed Water Alliance.
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Cartoons of the week – 24 June, 2026

The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don’t be a passive reader, send us your epistles.
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Stories about "Dirawong Reserve":

Iron Gates appeal over DA refusal continues with cultural heritage contention

Local News Aslan Shand - 1
The Iron Gates development site in Evans Head is surrounded by Crown Lands  to the north, east and south which have been Native Title recognised and at Ballina Court on Tuesday, 4 June who was an expert on the cultural heritage of the site was in question. 
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Still no board appointed for Evans Head’s Dirawong Reserve

Local News Aslan Shand - 0
Crown Lands promised that a new board would be appointed for the Dirawong Reserve near Evans Head in November 2023, yet as we welcome 2024 there is still no board appointed, says former board member Dr Richard Gates.
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Minister Stephen Kamper – it’s time to talk about the Dirawong Reserve

Letters Dr Richard Gates, Former Board Member of The Dirawong Reserve, Evans Head - 0
Dear Minister I am writing this Open Letter to you as Minister responsible for Crown Lands. Previous letters to you and your department, out of...
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Crown Lands has a problem – Dirawong Reserve at Evans Head

Articles & Columns Dr Richard Gates - 0
For more than a year and a half the former Board of the 360ha Dirawong Reserve at Evans Head sought the advice of Crown Lands about how resolve potential conflicts between Native Title Rights and the by-laws of the Reserve. Yet the answers are yet to be provided.
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Dirawong Reserve: Crown Lands responds to former board’s concerns

Local News The Echo - 1
Crown Lands have responded to the concerns raised by Evans Heads locals and former members of the Dirawong Reserve Land Management Board around the...
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Administrator appointed to run Dirawong Reserve while Crown Lands advertises second time for Board membership

Local News Aslan Shand - 0
Crown Lands has created confusion over the process of appointing the board of management for the Dirawong Reserve at Evans Head say locals.
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Dirawong must be ‘properly managed’ and ‘free of development’

Local News Aslan Shand - 1
Contractors have lost their work at the Dirawong Reserve after Crown Lands failed to reappoint its board at the end of a five-year term, or arrange an alternative management structure.
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Appeal to locate missing woman

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Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a woman missing from the Kempsey area.
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Citizen science last line of defence for threatened species

The Echo - 0
Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.
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Local News

Site confirmed for future high school at Pottsville

The Echo - 0
The NSW government says it has secured a site for a future high school in Pottsville, delivering on its commitment to future-proof public education for the growing Tweed community in the Northern Rivers.
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Local News

Eleven winners at Byron Bay Herb Nursery

Aslan Shand - 0
The Byron Bay Herb Nursery continues to create constructive pathways to achievement with twelve students from Byron Bay Herb Nursery’s disability support program recently graduating with a Certificate II in Horticulture.
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