Organisers of a gathering outside Ballina courthouse today said they want to put pressure on the justice system to take more action on juvenile crime in the area from Ballina to Lismore.

At the start of the new year we often pause, take stock, look at our lives and see what we want for the coming year.

Twenty years on, the recent release of previously secret federal Cabinet papers by Australian Archives has revealed that John Howard's government was even dodgier than it appeared at the time.

Multiple rodeos and bull riding events have been held throughout the Northern Rivers including Byron Bay, Evans Head, and Murwillumbah with an upcoming ‘Cowboys in Coffs’ this Saturday. 

Tweed Shire Council will now require builders and developers to pay a bond for non-subdivision Development Applications and Complying Development Certificates.