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Byron’s Winter Whales raise $43,000

The Byron Bay Winter Whales (BBWW) took to the ocean for the 39th time this year on the first Sunday of May and raised $43,000 for local organisations and charities.
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Consultation closes Friday on Lismore’s 60,000 population plans

The future of Lismore is now up for discussion, with Council's Strategic Planning Framework currently out for public exhibition. Now is your time to have your say – consultation closes 26 June.
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Savour The Tweed returns, 22 October

Food and drink event, Savour The Tweed, returns to excite tastebuds this spring, from Wednesday 22 October to Sunday 26 October.
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Putting their money where their mouth and conscience is

Climate action group Rising Tide say they will disrupt business at Tweed City ANZ today, as local long-term customers withdraw their life savings from the bank.
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Break-ins leave Uniting Church volunteers struggling

The Uniting Church Op Shop and Church Hall in Mullumbimby have been broken into three times in the last few months with the television being repeatedly stolen, donated stock stolen, and general damage to the shop.
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E-bikes destroyed by police in Tweed

Thirty-five e-bikes that were seized during police operations near Tweed Heads have been destroyed, say police.
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LettersRobert Podhajsky, Ocean Shores - 0

Discursion on ‘reserve’

Reserve is a word with many meanings. What is the Reserve Bank of Australia? Does it have a ‘reserve’? Reserve...
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Outages and detours for Byron CBD with EE crew in town

Local News The Echo - 0
Essential Energy says some Byron Bay homes and business may be affected by planned power outages over the next fortnight as a result of maintenance work on the grid.
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Editorial – The nuclear distraction: what the atomic option can’t do for Australia

Byron Echo Ewan Willis - 7
While the Coalition’s attempt to win the nation over on the promise of nuclear power was unsuccessful, it nonetheless has drawn attention to the fact that ordinary Australians are not as opposed to nuclear power as perhaps they ought to be.
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Bay FM back on air after ex-Cyclone Alfred outages

Local News Mia Armitage - 0
Volunteers and staff at community radio station Bay FM 99.9 are celebrating a return to regular programming after power outages cut services leading up to and during ex-Cyclone Alfred.
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Let the sun win for Byron Shire with stored renewables

Sustainability Dr Anne Stuart - 4
Do we need to change energy production, renewable energy storage and use, and if so, why? 
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Carpark cover doubles as solar power generator

Local News The Echo - 6
Lismore City Council has announced that the Clyde Campbell solar carpark is now officially open and ready to provide some much-needed shade for those shopping in the CBD this summer. 
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3,900 Essential Energy customers back on, 8,600 to go

Local News The Echo - 1
Essential Energy is continuing to work to get customer's power back on throughout the Northern Rivers region. They have another 8,600 customers still waiting...
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Essential Energy update for March 4

Local News The Echo - 4
With power outage still an issue for many in the flood zone, Essential Energy says that approximately 90 Essential Energy personnel will be arriving across the impacted area today and tomorrow.
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Power outage in Byron Shire

Local News The Echo - 2
Power supply company Essential Energy says that approximately 1,780 homes and businesses were without supply this morning.
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Four-hour power outage in Byron

Local News The Echo - 3
More than two thousand two hundred homes were without power last night in the Byron area, including Tyagarah and other coastal suburbs.
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Byron Echo

When it comes to real estate, everyone can use an advocate

David Lowe - 0
With 45 years combined experience across both sales and property management, husband and wife team Mark and Michelle Errichiello have recently moved to the Northern Rivers and teamed up with Byron Property Search to provide advocacy services for people looking to buy or sell across the region.
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Local News

Savour The Tweed returns, 22 October

The Echo - 0
Food and drink event, Savour The Tweed, returns to excite tastebuds this spring, from Wednesday 22 October to Sunday 26 October.
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Local News

Conservationists welcome carbon credit scheme to protect forests

The Echo - 0
Today’s release of the government’s proposed Improved Native Forest Method, which allows governments to claim carbon credits in return for stopping logging has been welcomed by the North East Forest Alliance and North Coast Environment Council as "providing a way to end native forest logging on public land".
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Charge dismissed for activist hindering coal exports

The Echo - 0
An activist who came to national attention after being punched by a police officer while protesting, has had an anti-protest charge dismissed in court today.
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