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Wollumbin Art Award winners to be revealed this Saturday

The winners of one of the Northern Rivers’ major regional art awards will be revealed at Tweed Regional Gallery this Saturday, as the 2026 Wollumbin Art Award exhibition opens in Murwillumbah.

Tweed Shire Council update

Tweed Council's latest meeting included motions on solar panel recycling, free speech, financial sustainability and Clarrie Hall Dam.

A hole in one!

Mullumbimby Golf Club’s Cody Watego get a hole in one.

Troubled Hastings Point sewage plant upgrade goes back to the community

A long-running battle over the future of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has entered another round, with Tweed Council putting its preferred upgrade option back before the community.

Can you help our rainbow community find a home?

For four years Queer Family Inc has lived the perilous life of a homeless community organisation – bouncing from one temporary venue to the next, sometimes without anywhere to stay at all.

They’ve got their trousers on

They’re almost here – Baggy Trousers bring ‘Madness’ to Ballina next week! London-born and hailed as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier Madness tribute show, Baggy Trousers brings to life the legendary UK band’s iconic hits in The Sound of Madness and bring the energy, humour and soundtrack of the UK’s golden era to Ballina RSL.

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Tamworth tradie’s illegal Nimbin night drive

A Tamworth carpenter must pay $1400 in court-ordered fines and apply to drive with an interlock device after pleading guilty to breaking the law on a night out in Nimbin.

Disqualified driver accused of drink and drug driving

A 40-year-old man is to face court next month accused of driving with more than three times the legal limit of alcohol in his breath and with cannabis in his system.

Eight killed on NSW roads over peak holiday period

Three people died on NSW roads in the Northern Region, which includes the Northern Rivers, over the Christmas / New Year Holiday period.

Operation Christmas New Year

Operation Christmas New Year has begun, with NSW police stepping up visibility and cracking down even further on reckless driving behaviour. Double demerits came into effect on 12:01am Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will continue until 11:59pm Sunday 4 January 2026.

Repeat drink-driver caught without interlock

A repeat drink-driving offender was caught driving in the Tweed Byron Police District without their court-ordered alcohol interlock device fitted, officers said last week.

16 DV offenders, 11 drink-drivers, one week

Sixteen people in seven days: that’s how many police said had been charged with domestic violence related offences across the Tweed Byron district leading up to Friday 17 October.

DV, police chases and drink-drivers in Tweed/Byron arrests

Tweed Byron Police charged seven people with domestic violence related offences in the week ending Friday 10 October.

Long weekend police blitz leads to 11,389 fines

NSW Police said they issued 11,389 Traffic Infringement Notices across the state over the Labor Day long weekend.

Cannabis, cash, a police chase and more DV: Tweed/Byron crime

Eight people were reportedly charged with domestic violence related offences in the Tweed/Byron Police District last week.

16 arrested for traffic offences in Tweed Byron, 2 fatal

Tweed Byron police say they arrested 26 people in the week to last Friday, including sixteen for road and/or traffic offences.

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.