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Green Heroes among 2026 NSW Environment Award winners

The NSW Environment Awards, hosted by the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, Nature Conservation Council NSW, was recently held at Customs House in Sydney.

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Fatal injury in Ocean Shores

About 2pm on Friday 30 October 2026, emergency services were called to a home on Warrambool Road, Ocean Shores, following reports a man had been injured.

Conservation zoning proposed for disputed Hastings Point site

Environmental protections and tighter housing controls are proposed for a disputed Hastings Point development site, following a court decision allowing its subdivision.

Northern NSW hospitals fall short on emergency and mental-health targets

Fewer than half of Northern NSW emergency patients needing admission or transfer met a six-hour hospital access target in 2025–26, according to a health district review released yesterday.

Role of the Greens

Recent articles and letters in The Echo have provided different perspectives about Australian politics today and the Australian Greens. There...

Chumps: certain fools

I noticed in a recent edition of The Echo what I regard as the most enduringly relevant of the...

Haven turns one: a three-day celebration

Haven’s story starts with a supermarket. The venue at 102 Jonson Street occupies the former Woolworths building, a site presented as a temporary home for music and community, before the building is eventually redeveloped. Instead of hiding that impermanence, the team made it the point. The space was built entirely from salvaged materials, turning a commercial site into a cultural one which is reminiscent of a futuristic Pan-Asian set from Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell.

Stories about "film":

Graphic violence is fine, but pot smoking? Never

There is a new computer game called ‘Halloween: The Game’ that builds on the hyper-real and brutal violence of the film.

John Weiley accepts lifetime achievement award

Last week a local filmmaker who has made a significant international impact was presented with the inaugural ScreenWorks Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Regional to Global Screen Forum in Lennox Head.

Regional to Global brings movers and shakers of the screen industry to Lennox Head

When around 300 screen practitioners gathered at Lennox Head last week for ScreenWorks' two-day Regional to Global Screen Forum, the setting was half the story. Here was a serious industry conversation happening a long way from Sydney or Melbourne, and after many successful years, nobody was treating that as a novelty.

Refugee story comes home to Federal

A story which began with a $200 donation and a two-room refugee school in Indonesia will arrive at Federal Hall this month, accompanied by two of the people who helped bring it to life.

New film society for Murwillumbah

In exciting news for lovers of fine cinema across the Northern Rivers, the Regent Film Society has just launched at Murwillumbah's historic Regent Cinema.

Screening tonight raising funds for next Cuba film

Local filmmaker David Bradbury is leaving soon for Cuba with his two children, Nakeita, 23, and Omar, 16, to shoot social media posts and a feature-length doco they will be sending back to the Byron community via The Echo online as Trump’s next plans unfold to take over the island.

Youth voices shine in new film ‘Voices in Light’

Northern Rivers Community Gateway (NRCG) has launched Voices in Light, a new youth-led short film created in Bundjalung Country for the UN 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.

‘Everything is Possible’ celebrates SAMBHAV festival

Local film makers Andy Bambach and Suzanne Whiteman have created a new film about the SAMBHAV disability arts festival, which happens in New Delhi each year, and celebrates artists from across the world, including Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand and Russia.

The wonders of ‘adultwashing’

We’re all living in the shadows of the climate crisis. But sometimes the clouds part and blue skies appear briefly.

BBFF focus on the environment and future

Damon Gameau’s film Future Council will screen at the Palace Byron Bay Cinema on October 22

Remembrance Day 2026: 11am, 11 November

It is estimated that in WWl there were 20 million dead and 20 million injured. From a population base of fewer than five million,...

Love books? Join Friends of the Library

Friends of the Libraries, Byron Shire are looking for some fresh, new, younger faces to join the group and help keep it moving forward.

Racehorses shot for pet food by NSW breeder

Thirteen thoroughbred horses deemed no longer useful, have been destroyed with eight horses destroyed by firearm at Berkeley Park Stud.

Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club youngsters shine

Two young members of Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club have delivered outstanding performances at the Paddle NSW State Sprint Championships, held at the Penrith International Regatta Centre over the weekend.