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Local triathletes fire up for the Tweed Enduro 

A contingent of the Byron Tri Club joined 600 other competitors in Pottsville last weekend for the 2025 Tweed Enduro. 

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Focus off centre around Sam Kerr’s arrest

It feels to me like Sam Kerr is really being pursued and prosecuted for being famous, female, and not white.

Don’t know, don’t vote

Dutton says he will cut and slash but presents no details. If you don’t know, don’t vote for the...

More on the proposed Suffolk Park traffic lights

Reading the words ‘location design’, I briefly thought Jan Barham was applauding Byron Shire Council’s decision re traffic lights...

Local triathletes fire up for the Tweed Enduro 

A contingent of the Byron Tri Club joined 600 other competitors in Pottsville last weekend for the 2025 Tweed Enduro. 

MAGA land

Thanks to Jo Immig for her thought-provoking article on the Trump phenomenon. Like all right-wing charlatans, Trump promises things...

The Bangalow Film Festival is back

The Bangalow Film Festival (BFF) is back in March with a star-studded fifth season – the festival will open on Thursday, March 6 – bringing a touch of Italy to Bangalow, the Australian premiere of Milano: The Inside Story of Italian Fashion will open the festival with a night of glitz and glamour. Bring your best fashionista look for this gala event – arrive in style and raise a glass of prosecco before the screening with friends and enjoy a a dazzling start to the festival.

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Memorial for horses to replace Cup Eve Parade

Animal Activists from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR), who have been held responsible for the death of the Melbourne Cup Eve Parade, have now replaced it with a memorial service for the 168 horses that were killed from racing-related injuries in the last racing year.

Today’s the day to say ‘Nup to the Cup’

Today we will hear about the ‘race that stops the nation’ but yesterday we heard from community members who want to stop the race.

AJP calls for horse racing royal commission while pokie profits rise

‘America has a gun problem, Australia has a gambling problem,’ says former Animal Justice Party candidate for Ballina and Northern Rivers based animal rights advocate Cathy Blasonato.

Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: Why I hat Melbourne Cup

I can’t stand large groups of women in hats. They’re scary. It's why I loathe Melbourne Cup. You put a hat on a woman and give her a glass of champagne and you’ve unleashed an evil more terrifying than the beast from 20,000 fathoms.

Melbourne Cup tour coming to northern rivers

The $175,000, 18-caret gold Emirates Melbourne Cup is coming to Lismore, Tweed Shire and Ballina. The three centres will be part of a tour, which begins in York, Western Australia, and covers much of Australia and New Zealand.

Stand off between squatters, police and NSW Reconstruction Authority in Lismore

Yesterday’s attempt to cut off water to nine houses that the NSW Reconstruction Authority has bought back post-flood and are currently occupied by around 30-40 people has led to a standoff. 

How ‘best’ to treat our toilet deposits up for debate at Tweed Council

The recommendation of Tweed Council staff of ‘option 4’ for the upgrade of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has been met with a...

Early end to bushfire danger season for Far North Coast

No fire permits will be needed from midnight on Monday, February 17 on the Far North Coast with the NSW Rural Fire Service having called an early end to the bushfire danger period. 

Youth advisory group supported by Lismore Council

A youth advisory group (YAG) was proposed for Lismore City Council at Tuesday’s council meeting by Labor councillor Harper Dalton-Earls who highlighted that Lismore...