This year is Nimbins 32nd annual MardiGrass and you’d reckon by now ‘weed’ be left alone. The same helicopter raids, the disgusting, and completely unfair, saliva testing of drivers, and we’re still not allowed to grow our own plants. We can all access legal buds via a doctor, most of it imported from Canada, but we can’t grow our own. There’s something very wrong there.

The long-awaited state government analysis of the 2022 flood in the shire’s north is now available on the SES website.

This morning Ballina Shire Council will hear a motion from Cr Steve McCarthy to remove the native macaranga tree from the list of approved species for planting by Ballina Council and local community groups.

A new book about Australian groundwater, soil and water has been published by geologist Philip John Brown.

A man has died in hospital following an E bike crash in Byron Bay earlier this month.