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Beach going, going…
Len Bates, Mullumbimby
I have noticed in the last few years that the poly fibre bags being used to protect the...
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COVID-19 fines issued while mask sign legalities unclear
As the Greater Sydney area heads into further lockdown, local health authorities say a known COVID-19 infected case stopped at Chinderah truck stop at the Ampol service station (northbound), 112 Tweed Valley Way, near Murwillumbah turnoff.
Interview with Emily Wurramara
Emily Wurramara’s childhood was one of water and music. Growing up on Groote Eylandt her days were filled with travel, fishing and extended family, and a mother telling stories of dreams and dolphins that would one day become the seeds of Emily’s music.
Ballina Hospital
Virginia Black, Byron Bay
On calling my friend in Ballina recently, I discovered she was having an asthma attack. Living...
More than 40 in self-iso after contact with Northern Rivers exposure site
Health authorities say they’ve classified more than forty people as Covid Nineteen close contacts via a Northern Rivers exposure site.
Green is the colour of my discontent
Tom Tabart, Co-founder, Byron Greens
The Greens team for the Council election has a problem with the inclusion of Sarah Ndiaye,...
The truth about Israel
Danny Wakil, Billinudgel
Gareth Smith, you are clearly very passionate, but constantly providing incredibly one-sided opinions, and half-truths get us nowhere...
Stories about "Mt Kosciuszko National Park":
Local walkers protest feral horses at the top of Mt Kosciuszko
Highlighting the problems faced in Mt Kosciuszko National Park as the brumbies run wild Steve and Barbara Millard, with four other members of the Northern Rivers Bushwalkers' Club, will walk from the Cobberas Wilderness in Eastern Victoria to the summit of Mt Kosciuszko.
Byron Echo
The truth about Israel
Danny Wakil, Billinudgel
Gareth Smith, you are clearly very passionate, but constantly providing incredibly one-sided opinions, and half-truths get us nowhere (14 July). I am factual...
Local News
John ‘Strop’ Cornell dies
John Cornell, a character credited with initiating major change in Byron Bay after his purchase of the Beach Hotel, has died at his home in Byron Bay, aged 80, surrounded by his wife Delvene Delaney and family.
Editorial
Editorial – Free fi fo dumb?
Hans Lovejoy, editor
Scientists have warned that now the UK has come out of lockdown on ‘freedom day’ (July 19), it will lead to ‘a...
Articles & Columns
Snakes monitor radioactive contamination
Ten years on from the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan – the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl – researchers are using Japanese rat snakes to measure radioactivity in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone.
