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Tweed Council rejects Casuarina disability viewing platform
Issues of queue jumping, the allocation of Tweed Shire Council’s resources in both time and money, and responding to...
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Police confirm Main Arm drug operation
NSW Police have finally confirmed what pretty much every one in Main Arm already knows – they are conducting drug operations in the north of the Shire.
Will Ballina Council live up to its promise?
A motion from Cr Jeff Johnson to be tabled at Ballina Shire Council's meeting this week will ask the council to live up to its promise to act on the climate emergency, and divest from fossil fuel investments.
Bringing down the heat in our ‘hood
How well we survive the future depends on our vision for our towns and suburbs – and on how we bring that vision about.
Cut it down – Tweed Councillors at odds over future of forest red gum
‘We should be active and take the tree down,’ Cr Polglase told the Tweed Shire Council meeting last Thursday, referring to a significant forest red gum and koala food tree in Tweed Heads West.
Community bar – not
Liz Levy, Suffolk Park
I couldn’t believe what I was reading in The Echo: a plan to turn an ‘iconic’...
Craig Kelly quits Liberal Party
Federal Member for Hughes Craig Kelly has resigned from the Liberal Party, technically throwing Scott Morrison's government into minority as it grapples with scandals from within and without.
Stories about "high school site":
Tweed council decides: more homes for Pottsville or school?
Tweed shire councillors will today decide whether to allow a controversial bid for a 65-lot subdivision on land earmarked for a high school at the Seabreeze estate, Pottsville.
Pottsville high-school site’s future up in the air
Tweed Coast residents who have battled for years to preserve a site at Pottsville for a public high school may have their hopes dashed tomorrow as Tweed Shire Council considers a 65-lot housing subdivision plan by the land owner and developer.
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Bringing down the heat in our ‘hood
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How well we survive the future depends on our vision for our towns and suburbs – and on how we bring that vision about.
Byron Echo
Resilience through biodiversity and awareness
The Byron Shire Resilience and Regeneration Roadshow will be in Brunswick Heads this Saturday, as part of a series of events across the region tackling the question: ‘How do we create more resilient communities in 2021?’
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Housing affordability on agenda at Ballina
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With the housing crisis worsening in Ballina and across the Northern Rivers, councillors agreed that something had to be done about the problem at their meeting yesterday.
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Final stage of Lismore Base Hospital gets underway
The redevelopment works commenced in late 2016 and the final stage is now getting underway to complete the Lismore Base Hospital refurbishment.
