With five new councillors on the Ballina Shire Council residents and businesses are being asked to share their vision of the future of their areas with councillors.
Aboriginal housing in the Byron Shire looks set to get a significant boost, after the company behind a major development in Brunswick Heads offered to provide five per cent of the residential land on the site for this purpose.
There were one pecuniary and eight non-pecuniary interests tabled at last week’s Council meeting, with independent Cr Jack Dods again winning the leaderboard, with five.
Police helicopters hovering over Simpsons Creek near Ocean Shores around 11.30am on Wednesday were not a search and rescue, they were searching for drugs, namely cannabis.
Protesters last week demanded an end to logging in the native forests around Coffs Harbour, to protect the precious habitat of koalas, now classified as endangered and threatened with extinction in NSW.
Dr Pol Dalmau, will visit the New Italy Museum on Sunday to talk about the Spanish archives with information about the Italian families who settled in the town from 1882.
A teenage student reportedly armed with a crossbow is in police custody on suspicion of killing a teacher and wounding four other people at his school in Barcelona.
Residents of Cudgen, Cudgera and Mooball catchments are being asked to share their flood experiences and records as part of a new flood study of the area.
Police helicopters hovering over Simpsons Creek near Ocean Shores around 11.30am on Wednesday were not a search and rescue, they were searching for drugs, namely cannabis.
