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Outcry over closure sees two Tweed Council libraries reopen their doors
Library branches at Tweed Heads and Murwillumbah will reopen for limited hours from today, after Tweed Shire Council agreed to fund the additional cost of administering the NSW Government’s latest public health order.
Lismore Councillors vote to seek urgent changes to the NSW Government roadmap to reopening
Residents in regional areas and local government area representatives, are already straining under what appears to be the Sydney centricity of the NSW Roadmap
The storm season has started
The storm season has officially started, the NSW Government and NSW State Emergency Service (SES) have announced.
Tweed Mayor tries for 180 short term holiday letting limit
At the Tweed Shire Council (TSC) meeting (October 7) a late Mayoral Minute by Tweed Shire Mayor Chris Cherry...
ICAC and the premier
For Liberal Party luminaries it’s obviously been a heart-wrenching experience watching Gladys Berejiklian bite the dust and they are...
Wildlife Hospital sets sights on Wollongbar location
A proposal for a wildlife hospital on a 2.39 hectare parcel of Crown land in Lindendale Road at Wollongbar, is before Ballina Council and on public exhibition. Northern Rivers Wildlife Hospital chair, Ninian Gemmell, welcomed consent for the use of Crown land for the proposed hospital.
Stories about "NSW hospitals":
NSW health minister on her way out
NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner will be shuffled out of Premier Mike Baird’s cabinet: he knows it and she knows it. The only questions are: when, how and who will succeed her?
Privatisation plan extends to hospitals: ALP
The NSW opposition has slammed the state government’s plan to sell a portion of the electricity grid saying it is part of an ideological drive that would privatise the state's hospitals as well.
GP tax ‘will swamp north coast hospitals’
Emergency departments in seven hospitals across the northern rivers would be swamped by an extra 10,000 patients every three months if the federal government’s controversial $7 GP co-payment on doctor visits goes ahead, the state opposition has claimed.
Byron Echo
French hypocrisy
The French are understandably upset about being stabbed in the back by Australia’s sinking of the submarine contract. They pontificate about the need for...
Local News
Police raid ‘unauthorised events’ in national parks
Police say that eleven people have been charged following unauthorised gatherings held at national parks on the weekend.
Byron Echo
Perrottet & Opus Dei
Bugga! Just when we don’t need to expect the Spanish Inquisition, out pops its wolf-in-sheep’s clothing remake: Opus Dei. New Premier, Dominic Perrottet is...
Letters
Bio-energy vs biodiversity
I thank The Echo for so clearly informing the readers of the ongoing concerns of Byron Bird Buddies and Byron community members when addressing...
