Richie Andersen is excited and grateful. After years spent suffering substance dependency, relationship breakdowns, health crises and sleeping rough, the Tweed-based grandfather is about to become a mature-aged student.

The Darling Muffs of May have launched a women’s health initiative with a bit of fun thrown in.

The NSW Labor government has come good with their promise to find emergency funding for Byron’s Fletcher Street Cottage (the Cottage), yet it will not prevent the service from reducing its services.

Byron’s only homeless hub says it has to reduce services owing to an increase in demand and a lack of government funding.

Calls from local Greens candidate Mandy Nolan for Labor to provide funding certainty for essential homeless service, the Fletcher Street Cottage, may be working,...

Australia’s first community land trust has been launched in the Byron Shire, and has applied to build its first project: a group home for single mothers and kids facing homelessness.

Today is the start of Homelessness Week, an event held annually since its official start in 2007 during the first full week of August. This year’s theme is: ‘It’s time to end homelessness’. Events and activities will take place across the country until Sunday.

Recognising those important community members who work to improve Byron Shire was on the agenda last night when the Byron Shire Community Awards were officially announced.

The crisis of unaffordable and insecure rentals here is not news, but right now there’s a real opportunity to help fix it. 

With a recent media release by Council claiming Byron is now the hotspot for homelessness, Mayor Michael Lyon used the opportunity to pivot to his obsession: ‘Council is doing everything it can to generate more affordable housing’.