Recent big swells over the last week have severely eroded dunes across the region – in  Byron Shire, Council say the most impacted beaches are New Brighton and Suffolk Park.

A Tweed Shire commercial fisher pleaded guilty last week to six offences in relation to illegal fishing activity.

Last week an old friend of mine died. His name was Gary Cook. We met here in Byron Bay, when I was 23. He would have been in his early 30s. He was handsome. And funny. And weird. And self-involved. He used to come to Ringos, where I worked as a waitress. He’d sing to himself, bludge cigarettes, and shine up the serviette holder. He loved looking at himself. He’d laugh and say, ‘God, I’m a handsome man,’ and then he’d laugh this really infectious laugh

A fifteen-year-old is to face court later this month accused of a crash in Mullumbimby that police say left another child hospitalised while the offender fled the scene.