Mullumbimby’s proposed hybrid water supply scheme is in serious doubt after Byron Council staff warned it faces significant public health, regulatory, and cost risks, and recommended Council not proceed with the project in its current form.

The state’s peak farming organisation has called on the NSW government to answer urgent questions about how it will protect groundwater, farm biosecurity, and landholders as it promotes new gas exploration areas in the west of the state.

The vexed issue of 4 Wheel Drive (4WD) access at Airforce Beach, Evans Head, is now open for public comment, closing 30 November.

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has today released a new report from Frontier Economics which reveals for the first time that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been gifted to the taxpayer owned logging business Forestry Corporation NSW over the past five years.