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Up to five times the average rainfall in some areas says BOM
The formal record of the extreme rainfall and flooding was released today by the Bureau of Meteorology with some areas of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales having five times their monthly average of rain.
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Passports
I have been subscribing to The Echo since my daughter moved to Mullumbimby late last year and I visited...
Police appeal for missing woman
Lismore Police are appealing to the public for assistance in locating Missing Person, Emily Eden Lazzaroni.
Hydrogen hoax
This is very serious. Last year expert scientists published a warning via The Society of Chemical Industry: ‘blue hydrogen’,...
Get me a DA
In response to the recent flood meeting held at the Ocean Shores Country Club on Tuesday 10 May, a...
The protest vote
Uncanny that in this federal election, in Richmond as elsewhere, the freedom/protest vote parties just about all preference the...
Harm Labor
Much as I respect Richard Jones’ opinions on many things, I can’t agree with his conclusion last week (‘Election...
Stories about "drug dealing":
Byron Bay teen on drug dealing and gun charges
An 18-year-old Byron Bay man has been charged with drug dealing and another two teens have been charged with possession after a police raid on a Suffolk Park home.
Two arrested during drug deal
Two men have been charged with drug offences in Byron Bay on Friday (February 9) while apparently in the middle of a drug deal.
Byron Bay teenage drug dealer escapes jail time
Before Byron Bay teenager Flynn Brown was ordered to be assessed for an intensive corrections order he admitted he 'was out of control' during 2016 when he was supplying drugs including cocaine, ecstacy and cannabis to friends and undercover police.
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Recognising 50 years of police service
When John 'Jack' Keough moved to Byron Bay police station in 1982 there was still a station sheep that kept the grass down and goats still roamed Cape Byron. Sargent Keough began his career in policing in 1972 when he walked into the Redfern Academy to join the police force.
Byron Echo
The postal vote that never arrived
Eve Jeffery - 0
At 91, there are many things that you can no longer do, but one of the things you still can do is have your voice heard in an election – but not for at least one Byron Shire resident.
Byron Echo
Vale big Jez, Mullum troubadour
The Mullumbimby community lost one of the founding fathers of its counter culture last Thursday, when Graham Chambers, better known as Jerry De Munga, passed away at his home with the love and care of wife Chrissy, family and close friends.
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Kashmir Miller: ‘the Green wave will expand’
Eve Jeffery - 0
Taking her first but definitely not her last steps into federal politics, the election campaign for Greens candidate for Page, Kashmir Miller, was exciting and tricky.