Who will be your next Tweed Shire councillors? Well that is up to you when you vote in the 4 December local council elections. The Echo online has sent out a series of questions covering issues from affordable housing, holiday letting and development to the rail trail, water mining and the climate emergency to all the candidate groups who have put their hands up to represent you. 

Ballina Shire Council candidates against the idea of a new dam in Byron’s hinterland are accusing fellow candidate Sharon Cadwallader of false claims in her electoral campaign.

Conservation Volunteers Australia are running a nest-building workshop in one of Australia’s most biodiverse hotspots, the Nightcap Range, ‘to create homes and hope for wildlife’.

I am a teacher. I teach at University Canberra, on Ngunnawal country, in ACT. This university went into ‘Lockdown’ about four months ago. We were...