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Man seriously assaulted in Byron Bay

NSW Police say detectives have commenced an investigation after a man was seriously assaulted in the local area overnight.
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Byron EchoSarah Archibald - 0

Mullum Giants celebrate Old Boys Day

Sunday, 31 May saw everyone having some fun as the sun finally shone at the Mullumbimby Giants games which included the Old Boys Day. Photos by Sarah Archibald.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Kayakers rescued after being stranded on offshore rock near Byron Bay

Volunteers from Marine Rescue Brunswick battled darkness and deteriorating conditions overnight to save three men stranded on Cocked Hat Rock, part of the Three Sisters south of Byron Bay.
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Local NewsEve Jeffery - 0

The Echo has way too much fun at 40th birthday bash

Without an inch or even a centimetre to spare, the Byron Bowling club was dressed up to the nines and packed with funsters on Saturday evening for The Echo's 40th Anniversary & Awards Celebration.
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Local NewsPaul Bibby - 0

Council tightens ‘affordable housing’ rules

Byron Council has tightened its definition of ‘affordable housing’ in a bid to make access to housing more equitable on major projects like the former Mullumbimby Hospital site and 57 Station Street.
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Byron EchoIan Clements, Byron Bay - 0

Loss of amenity with new pool owners?

Byron Shire councillors recently decided – by a close margin – to hand over our two public swimming baths...
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Byron EchoEdward Kent, Suffolk Park - 0

Financial woes

Byron Shire’s financial woes are not the result of a lack of money, but rather the waste of it....
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Stories about "environmental levy":

Byron set to spend environmental levy on rock wall

Byron Echo The Echo - 1
Byron Shire Cr Basil Cameron. The rush to build a rock wall at Belongil has already seen $300,000 diverted. Now Environmental Levy funds are proposed to be raided.
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Green levy plan for Tweed knocked down

Local News The Echo - 2
Tweed's Greens councillor has helped knock back an environmental levy until the shire's sustainability strategy is completed, saying it could be used for the wrong purpose.
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National News

Tour de Cure pays tribute to Professor Richard Scolyer AO

The Echo - 0
Renowned Australian pathologist Richard Anthony Scolyer AO, died yesterday after living for three years with a grade 4 glioblastoma IDH wild-type brain tumour.
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Articles & Columns

Evans Head STP: kicking the environmental can down the road

Dr Richard Gates, for Evans Head Residents for Sustainable Development - 0
For decades the Evans Head Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) has been dumping effluent into Salty Lagoon in Broadwater National Park. Rich in nutrients and other contaminants, the lake succumbed to these pollutants with a massive fish and bird kill in 2005.
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Local News

The Echo has way too much fun at 40th birthday bash

Eve Jeffery - 0
Without an inch or even a centimetre to spare, the Byron Bowling club was dressed up to the nines and packed with funsters on Saturday evening for The Echo's 40th Anniversary & Awards Celebration.
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Local News

Appeal to locate teen missing near Lismore

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from The Channon, north of Lismore.
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