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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...