With Tweed councillor Kimberly Hone accusing her fellow councillors of negotiating preference deals with an unnamed Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP) member – and her subsequent expulsion from the chamber around her refusal to retract her remarks, The Echo was provided comment from the man The Echo believes Cr Hone was referring to – planning academic at Bond Uni, Ned Wales.

A late Mayoral Minute calling on the NSW planning minister to reject Cudgen Connections, a large DA proposed on state significant land (SSL) around the Tweed Hospital, was adopted by Tweed Shire councillors yesterday.

A motion adopted on Thursday (yesterday) by Tweed Shire councillors will see them lobby for federal funding for councils to adapt to climate change disasters as well as a polluter pays levy.

A contentious $300 million proposal on State Significant Farmland (SSF) next to the Tweed Hospital has been recommended for approval by The Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP). The Cudgen Connection decision came in late yesterday, after years of deliberations, opposition and political commitments to protect the SSF. It is located at 741 Cudgen Road.

NAIDOC Week celebrations will be held from Sunday 5 July to Sunday 12 July 2026, under the national theme 50 Years of Deadly. 

With a dead juvenile whale washed ashore near Crabbes Creek Beach south of Wooyung Road, Tweed Council say they are preparing to tow it back out to sea on tomorrow morning's high tide.

Tweed Shire Council say it has secured national support at the Australian Local Government Association’s National General Assembly, with four key motions carried.

A Tweed councillor is warning that protections for agricultural/environmental land could be diminished if a strategy to expand housing on rural land is adopted by Council. 

A blueprint for guiding the growth of Tweed Shire until 2041 was voted on at yesterday’s Council meeting and will soon go on public exhibition.

At last week’s meeting, Tweed Shire councillors endorsed the Tweed Development Control Plan (DCP) 2025, which provides, ‘detailed guidelines that show the controls that apply to a particular type of development or in a particular area’.