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Pedestrian dies after hit-and-run in Bangalow

A pedestrian has died after a fail-to-stop crash in Bangalow this morning.

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Two new flood gauges to monitor Lismore’s real-time flooding

Two new flood gauges have been installed at Rocky Creek Dam and on Ballina Street Bridge, Lismore – that saw boats motoring along the bridge's roadway during the 2022 flood – to enhance real-time flood data collection and emergency response across the region.

Kathy’s tireless work with her South Golden Beach community 

If there was a university degree called ‘Thorn In The Side’, then Kathy Norley wrote the curriculum.

Anyone for a beach?

The ‘coastal interface’ is a dynamic zone where land meets ocean. It is biologically and geochemically active. In other...

Another year of free footpath dining for Lismore’s businesses? 

Lismore councillors will be considering waiving footpath dining fees for another year at next Tuesday’s (8 July) Lismore City Council meeting. 

Labor delivers

The Minns Labor government’s budget has delivered a record $3.4 billion investment in TAFE and skills funding, as part...

Average speed cameras switch to enforcement mode

From tomorrow (1 July) both light and heavy vehicles will receive penalties for speeding at two trial sites in regional NSW, as part of a trial that extends the use of average speed cameras to light vehicles for the first time.

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Solar pushes mid-day electricity prices in QLD below zero

The roll-out of large-scale solar power in Queensland – and the continuing rapid uptake of rooftop solar by homes and businesses – is starting to have an impact on electricity prices in the state, even sending them into negative territory in the middle of the day.

SA’s promising renewable-energy future hanging by a thread

Just one day out from the South Australia state poll, the result is in the balance, and so too is the fate of South Australia’s status as a world leader in renewable energy. It’s an outcome that could have a huge bearing on the pace of the energy transition for the whole of the country.

Will Turnbull’s Snowy Hydro continue its war against battery storage?

Just hours after giving a lecture in parliament about the Coalition’s belief and commitment to free markets, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the biggest federal government purchase in living memory – the $6.2 billion buyout of Snowy Hydro.

The ‘robo-taxis’ are coming

It’s almost impossible to imagine in a country with such an attachment to individual car ownership, petrol vehicles and long distances like Australia. But in little more than a decade, the way we travel in cars may be completely different.

Battery storage leaves fossil fuels and regulators in state of inertia

The brain cells are working overtime at the headquarters of network owners, grid operators, generators, and regulators. Australia’s electricity grid is about to make the leap from analogue to digital, and everyone is scrambling to keep up.

South Australia set for world’s biggest virtual power plant

The South Australia Labor government has unveiled plans to build a 250MW ‘virtual power plant’, linking household rooftop solar and battery storage, in what it says will be the world’s biggest.

Will Shorten stop Adani?

You would have missed it, if you were relying on mainstream media, but Labor leader Bill Shorten did actually mention clean energy and climate policies in his scene-setting speech for 2018, which may well turn out to be an election year.

Speed of Tesla’s big battery leaves rule-makers behind

The Tesla big battery – the world’s largest lithium-ion battery installation – has only been in operation for three weeks, but already it has highlighted just how unprepared the National Electricity Market, and its rules and regulations, are for this new technology.

2018 is when battery storage will get grip on the grid

There are no prizes for predicting that there will be more batteries in Australia’s electricity grid next year: the trick is predicting how much.

Turnbull blows trumpet for right wing idiocy on energy

Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has chosen to close the year in much the same way as he started it on climate and energy policy: awaiting yet another review, and parroting the ever more absurd claims of the fossil fuel lobby and the right wing of his Coalition government on energy.

Labor delivers

The Minns Labor government’s budget has delivered a record $3.4 billion investment in TAFE and skills funding, as part of its plan to tackle...

Power not speed

One reason I stopped selling e-bikes was that illegal over-speed e-bikes became available and preferred. The 25km/h speed limit was rarely policed. It’s a pity...

Congrats Stewart’s Menswear! Winner of gold at business awards

Mullumbimby’s Stewart’s Menswear has won the Gold Award for Retail Rockstar of the Year at the 2025 Roar Awards, held recently at Brisbane’s Calile Hotel.

Women key to empowering communities facing disasters

A study by McNaugh and Inwood from University of Sydney’s University Centre for Rural Health (UCRH) agrues that, based on their research, as climate-related disasters become more frequent and severe, Australia must rethink who it sees as leaders in disaster response and recovery.