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Local NewsThe Echo - June 26, 20260

Schools Roadshow heads to Lismore

The Rivers Secondary College Lismore High Campus will host 80 principals and public school leaders from across the North Coast and New England on Friday 26 June as part of the 2026 Schools Roadshow.

Other News

CartoonsThe Echo - June 24, 20260

Cartoons of the week – 24 June, 2026

The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don’t be a passive reader, send us your epistles.

Local NewsThe Echo - June 25, 20260

12 winners at Byron Bay Herb Nursery

The Byron Bay Herb Nursery continues to create constructive pathways to achievement with 12 students from Byron Bay Herb Nursery’s disability support program recently graduating with a Certificate II in Horticulture.

The Good LifeThe Echo - June 23, 20260

Local farming legend retires after 23 years

Thursday, 25 June marks the end of an era for local farmer Kenrick Riley who is retiring from Byron...

Byron EchoHywel David - June 23, 20260

Men’s XV: Byron Shire Rebels vs Lismore

The Rebels Men’s XV put in a dominant attacking display of rugby to see off Lismore 42-17, racking up...

Local NewsThe Echo - June 22, 20260

Facing the River in chapters

Tweed Shire Council is telling the full story of how the Tweed community has rebuilt since the 2022 floods, and further damage from the 2024 floods and Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Local NewsThe Echo - June 22, 20260

Tweed keeps rate increase below rate of inflation

Tweed Shire Council says it has adopted one of the lowest rate increases in the cross-border region for 2026/27, with the average household bill rising around 3.6 per cent once all charges are counted. This is below the current annual rate of inflation of 4.2 per cent.

Citizen science last line of defence for threatened species

National News The Echo - June 24, 2026 0

Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.

Clouds Creek forest protectors convicted

National News The Echo - February 19, 2025 7

On Monday, forest campaigners who had been protecting the Clouds Creek Greater Glider Sanctuary at Billy’s Creek, west of the Blicks River on the Dorrigo Plateau, appeared at a hearing in the Coffs Harbour Local Court.

$15 million to subsidise habitat destruction?

National News The Echo - December 1, 2023 3

The recently-released NSW Forestry Corporation’s annual report, which shows that taxpayers will again be asked to spend $15 million to subsidise native forest logging, has today been labelled ‘a damning indictment on our state’.

Options explored to save Bruns native habitat

Local News The Echo - September 21, 2023 4

Byron Council could seek federal government intervention in a last-ditch effort to protect a pocket of precious bushland in Brunswick Heads from development.

Editorial

Could you be a better councillor?

Aslan Shand - June 26, 2026 0

I had the opportunity to speak to the NSW Reconstruction Authority (NSW RA) last month. One of the matters I brought up was the proposed 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby development. It was clear that the only ‘community feedback’ they would be listening to supported housing development on that site.

Letters

Discursion on ‘reserve’

Robert Podhajsky, Ocean Shores - June 26, 2026 0

Reserve is a word with many meanings. What is the Reserve Bank of Australia? Does it have a ‘reserve’? Reserve means: To keep back or...

Letters

Economics of rail trail

Louise Doran, Ocean Shores - June 26, 2026 0

Byron Shire and the North Coast is one of the fastest-growing regions on NSW’s east coast with millions of tourists, not a dying country...

Byron Echo

Sustainable infrastructure

Annie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads - June 26, 2026 0

I attended the last Byron Council meeting – thanks to the community members who were able to come. The frustration is apparent. Legislation protects the...

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