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Just us, with the wild goat
Simon Haslam
I don’t know if you can recall one of those luminous moments in your life when it just...
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Local MPs to embark on flood fact finding mission
Four local MPs will tour the Queensland Reconstruction Authority’s Brisbane headquarters tomorrow on a fact finding mission that will hopefully assist the flood recovery process in the Northern Rivers.
Bioenergy facility funding rejected
Mayor Michael Lyon is downplaying a funding rejection for Council’s much touted Bioenergy Facility proposal by a federal government agency, claiming other funding sources are available.
Bundjalung art market
This year the region’s favourite Art on Bundjalung Market is coming to Kyogle on Saturday 22 October. The event...
Editorial – Break out the bubbly for Budget Estimates
Budget Estimates is truly one of the most revealing and best educational services that the NSW government offers. MPs from the opposition grill ministers and agency bosses without mercy, for hours.
The soul of football-based sports
'It is around this time of the year I look at myself in the mirror and ask, "what is wrong with me?"'
Just us, with the wild goat
Simon Haslam
I don’t know if you can recall one of those luminous moments in your life when it just...
Stories about "Kingscliff crime":
Man threatens to kill police in motel standoff
Police resorted to capsicum spray to subdue a man who allegedly threatened to kill them at at Murwillumbah motel on Saturday night. They resorted to it a second time the same evening after attending a road rage incident in Kingscliff.
Police catch up with crim who removed ankle bracelet
Police have arrested and charged a man wanted on outstanding warrants, who had allegedly cut off an ankle bracelet and moved interstate.
Vandals trash Kingscliff park
Vandals have smashed seating, feature walls and an existing Anzac memorial in Kingscliff's Rowan Robinson Park just days before its official opening.
Three charged with fraud, gun and drug offences
Two men and a woman have been charged with drug, fraud and firearms offences after a police raid on a unit in Kingscliff on Friday night.
Two charged over separate offences against police
A police officer was assaulted at Byron Bay over the weekend, while, at Kingscliff, a man was arrested for intimidating police officer and resisting arrest.
Woman arrested after Kingscliff motorbike chase
A female motorbike passenger has been arrested after the bike’s rider veered off onto a walking track in a Kingscliff park during a police chase on Saturday.
Kingscliff man charged after police dog bites him
A Kingscliff man was hospitalised after a Queensland police dog bit him on Saturday night. He has since been charged with drug possession, dangerous driving and not stopping for police.
Police arrest man over Kingscliff foreshore fire
Police have arrested a man who allegedly deliberately lit a fire that stretched 70 metres along the foreshore at Kingscliff yesterday morning (Sunday, December 3).
Man arrested in Kingscliff over multiple thefts and break-ins
A man charged with 45 offences relating to breaking and entering, stolen motor vehicles, and thefts in the region yesterday was arrested driving a stolen car.
Police use taser, pepper spray and baton on naked man at Kingscliff
Last Wednesday, Tweed-Byron police say they were forced to use pepper spray, a taser gun and a baton on a drug-affected naked man who was ‘behaving strangely’ around the Matra Hotel on Salt Beach at Kingscliff.
The Good Life
Lambruk Pantry
Simon Haslam
Lambruk Pantry is a family-owned local gourmet providore based in the heart of the Byron Shire. If you’re looking for something classy, that’s...
The Good Life
Oliver’s happy hens
‘If you can look after fifty chickens’, Oliver tells me, ‘you might as well look after 500.’ In between a steady stream of customers...
Byron Echo
Alstonville takes out top tier of the Oceania Cup
The Oceania Cup delivered exciting and close football for the 19 teams that competed across last weekend at the Alstonville FC’s Crawford Park fields.
The...
Byron Echo
Great waves on offer for the Evans Head Malibu Classic
The 30th annual Evans Head Malibu Classic was run last weekend with clean one metre-plus waves on offer right across the four days of...
