While we here suffer through the driest start to the year on record, the timing of Labor's announcement to build a centre of excellence around flood resilience at Southern Cross University may seem somewhat ironic.

Thirty-nine years ago Kadina High School in Goonellabah opened it’s doors to a year 8 cohort, a group of teens who were always the “big kids” as the school grew when each new year 7 class enrolled behind them.

Two domestic dogs that killed a flock of lambs at Lismore’s Kadina High School on Tuesday morning had escaped an electric fence at the property where they were being held.