The next Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce Open Forum Board Meeting is scheduled to happen at the Byron Bay Services Club this evening.

The Tweed Shire Council held a Planning Committee meeting yesterday, with the hot topic on the agenda being the proposed Cudgen Connection development at 741 Cudgen Road, Cudgen.

Clunes residents are meeting next Tuesday, 2 September, to discuss Lismore Council's Master Plan for the village, which they say will result in big rate rises and major new roads, along with a doubling or tripling of the village, depending on lot sizes, and threats to the wildlife corridor.

The Mullumbimby Residents Association is holding a meeting to discuss the DA for the proposed three-storey housing development at the entrance to Mullumbimby on Monday, 4 August at 6.30 pm at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club.

The epic June meeting of Ballina Shire Council opened with a deputation from Claudia Caliari from the Ballina Environment Society on the issue of single use plastics.

The Lismore City Council will carry out an in-depth workforce review of asset management roles and responsibilities if a revised strategy is adopted at today’s extraordinary council meeting.

Land at Goonellabah proposed for rezoning to accommodate housing is to be considered at this week’s Lismore City Council meeting but hopes for house relocations from flood areas appear reduced.

The Lismore SES say they’re holding a community meeting at the East Lismore Bowling Club tonight, Monday 12 Feb, 6pm- 7:30pm.

On Friday night, the Star Court Theatre in Lismore was the location for a much needed public conversation about what's happened since the 2022 floods, and how the recovery process could be better managed into the future.

One could have been mistaken for thinking the speakers at last night's Lismore Council meeting were in a court of law after the clearly hostile grilling they received from certain councillors in the chamber.