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Building hei(s)(gh)ts
I also strongly agree with David Gilet and Paul McCarthy on the creeping cancer of increased building heights/heists in...
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Enova enters into voluntary administration
The Enova Community Energy Board announced Tuesday that Enova Community Energy and Enova Energy, its retail electricity arm, have been placed into voluntary administration.
Renewable energy certificates might not be honest about their renewable energy
Buying emissions drops isn’t as effective as reducing your emissions.
Byron High’s Winter Fest, June 23
To celebrate the creative and artistic talents of students, Byron Bay High School is holding its annual Winter Arts Festival Showcase Evening (aka the WAF) on Thursday June 23.
Dredging resurfaces for Tweed Council
Following the February and March floods the question of whether dredging the rivers of Tweed Shire will reduce a flood's impact has once again been raised.
Elliot’s still sore
You (The Echo), rightly so, have a dig (in Backlash) at right-wing media outlets for mindless repetition of discredited...
Lismore Council GM avoids sacking
Lismore City Council’s legacy of turbulence when it comes to leadership continues after a late-night surprise motion to sack General Manager John Walker in a confidential vote last week.
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Mullum chamber funds third sculpture
Mullumbimby's sculpture walk has just received $10,000 towards its next permanent sculpture in Palm Park from the Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce.
Mullum Music Festival the biggest, best ever
While schoolies and police took over Byron Bay on the weekend, the community came out to play in Mullumbimby. And so did dozens and dozens of great performers and musicians from all over the world.
Mullum gets another musical makeover
The ninth annual Mullum Music Festival kicked off last night in style, with a sold-out evening of festival highlights, MCd by Echonetdaily’s very own Mandy Nolan.
Music from a Ghost Town
In Eilen Jewell’s new album Sundown Over Ghost Town she takes us to the haunting place of her childhood.
‘I grew up in Boise, Idaho,...
Byron shire businesses sign up for plastic-free future
Mullum Music Festival is being used as a launchpad to encourage more Byron-based businesses to sign up to the vision of a plastic container-free future.
Young women to take centre stage at Mullum Music Fest
This year it’s young women who’ll step into the spotlight at Mullum Music Festival with four out of the five categories in its Youth Mentorship being won by up and coming female musicians.
Mullum Music Festival going greener
Mullum Music Festival director Glenn Wright is on a mission – a green mission. He’s decided that in the festival’s ninth year, 2016, it’s time to transition towards a festival free from disposable plastic water bottles and cups.
From Mother Russia to Mullumbimby
It’s been seven long years since VulgarGrad, the criminal seven, played MMF, leaving audiences reeling from the stench of the gutters of Moscow, with...
Queer, Christian and Southern: Mullum Music Festival welcomes Julien Baker
At just 20 years old singer/songwriter Julien Baker is a talent on the rise. Queer, Christian and native to Memphis, this is a girl with...
New patron for Mullum Music Fest
Suzannah Espie has just been announced as Mullumbimby Music Festival’s next patron. As Harry James Angus and Mama Kin did before her, Suzannah promises to...
Letters
Palestine’s ‘terra nullius’ and children’s body armour
Firstly, the Zionist regime of Israel is an apartheid regime. It is based on the dispossession, expropriation, expulsion and oppression of the Palestinian people.
This...
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Lismore council flirts with ‘koala-killer’ status
The fate of one of the state’s last koala populations appears to lie in the hands of the Lismore City Council after an extraordinary meeting Thursday afternoon.
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Suspected Tweed Heads meth lab dismantled
Specialist police units along with NSW Fire and Rescue have been dismantling an alleged meth lab in Tweed Heads this morning, police said.
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Hydro cannabis bust in Tweed
Police have confiscated equipment they say was being used for a hydroponic cannabis station set up in a Tweed Heads garage.