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Local NewsChristian Tancred, BYS - June 9, 20260

Byron Youth Service Continues to Invest in Young People and Community Spaces

Byron Youth Service is celebrating another year of supporting young people across the Byron Shire through a diverse range of creative, educational, and wellbeing initiatives, while continuing significant improvements to The YAC.

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Byron EchoAlison Vickery, Lennox Head - June 4, 20260

Lennox development

The proposed Saltwood development at Ross Lane raises serious concerns for local residents. You cannot engineer away local knowledge. Residents with...

Local NewsThe Echo - June 5, 20260

Marooned yacht on rocks near Ballina

A local photographer has shot a marooned yacht at Flat Rock, in Ballina Shire. It's the second boat to be washed ashore in recent months

Byron EchoGary Opit and Carmel Daoud, Wooyung - June 4, 20260

Return Mullum hospital to Bundjalung

‘Public land should serve the public vision,’ Greens councillor Elia Hauge is quoted as saying in The Echo (May...

Byron EchoHywel David - June 4, 20260

Byron Shire mens Rebels suffer first defeat at the hands of Wollongbar

Hywel David It was a mixed day out at Pioneer Park in Wollongbar-Alstonville on a sunny Saturday, with the Rebels...

Local NewsThe Echo - June 4, 20260

Bay FM’s Karena Wynn-Moylan wins at Aus Audio Awards

Australia’s top radio and podcast talent were crowned at the inaugural Australian Audio Awards last Thursday night at Carriageworks in Sydney. Entries were judged on their technical expertise, audio quality, content and impact.

Byron EchoDale Emmerson - June 4, 20260

Minimum requirements were never meant to be aspirations

The Echo’s recent report (2 May) on Cr Elia Hauge’s proposal for a community assessment panel for the old Mullumbimby Hospital site contained a sentence that deserves more than a passing read.

Future of Northen Rivers floodplains to be decided

Local News The Echo - May 18, 2026 0

Parklands, community hubs and environmental projects are some of the new options allowed for floodplains left vacant after the removal of ‘buyback’ houses on the Northern Rivers.

Grants, tradies and 2022 disaster recovery workshops

Local News The Echo - March 6, 2026 0

An information session focused on home rebuilding and repair as part of the 2022 disaster recovery, including government grant support, is to happen in the Mullumbimby Civic Hall this Wednesday.

RA to auction nine buyback homes

Local News The Echo - July 21, 2025 1

Nine homes sold to the NSW government owing to impacts of the 2022 Northern Rivers flood and landslides disaster in the Tweed Shire are to be auctioned next month.

Emergency pod residents relocated

Local News The Echo - July 4, 2025 0

All residents from the Bayside emergency pod village have now been relocated, with the NSW Reconstruction Authority telling The Echo, ‘[pod manager] Uniting has worked closely with residents to support them to move to alternative accommodation’.

Bayside pod eviction snafu

Local News Hans Lovejoy - June 19, 2025 0

NSW Reconstruction Authority corrects ‘incorrect’ advice to residents, while other questions remain unanswered

Ten of Lismore’s buyback homes up for auction

Local News Aslan Shand - June 6, 2025 5

Ten relocatable homes from Lismore will go up for auction on July 8 from 5.30pm with a 6pm start at the Lismore Heights Sports Club.

Recycling houses and Santin Quarry costs on the agenda for LCC

Local News Aslan Shand - May 13, 2025 1

Lismore City Council are meeting today with a number of key issues on the table including will ratepayers foot the bill to defend the failed Santin Quarry decision

Protests continue against RA’s house demolitions

Local News Mia Armitage - May 12, 2025 3

Around 150 people gathered in intermittently wet weather in Lismore on Saturday to share frustrations over the NSW Reconstruction Authority’s management of recovery processes for disaster impacted homes.

Stop the demolition of Lismore’s Big Scrub homes

Local News Aslan Shand - May 8, 2025 11

Lismore has seen a number of its Big Scrub homes demolished since the 2022 floods and this Saturday concerned residents and locals are taking to the streets to protest their demolition.

Protesters against RA demolitions to rally outside Saffin’s office

Local News The Echo - April 16, 2025 3

Protestors are gathering again today in Lismore against house demolitions under the order of NSW Premier Chris Minns.

Local News

Man seriously assaulted in Byron Bay

The Echo - June 8, 2026 0

NSW Police say detectives have commenced an investigation after a man was seriously assaulted in the local area overnight.

National News

Tour de Cure pays tribute to Professor Richard Scolyer AO

The Echo - June 8, 2026 0

Renowned Australian pathologist Richard Anthony Scolyer AO, died yesterday after living for three years with a grade 4 glioblastoma IDH wild-type brain tumour.

Articles & Columns

Evans Head STP: kicking the environmental can down the road

Dr Richard Gates, for Evans Head Residents for Sustainable Development - June 8, 2026 0

For decades the Evans Head Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) has been dumping effluent into Salty Lagoon in Broadwater National Park. Rich in nutrients and other contaminants, the lake succumbed to these pollutants with a massive fish and bird kill in 2005.