The Byron Bay Breakers Triathlon Club has won the North Coast Interclub series for the second time after finishing on top of the table ahead of the Clarence Valley Stingrays and Hat Head Hammerheads.

Police have confiscated equipment they say was being used for a hydroponic cannabis station set up in a Tweed Heads garage.

Byron Writers Festival is again offering Sunday locals’ passes, supported for the third time by partners, Stone & Wood.

The right to safe abortion is the cornerstone of the women’s movement. It’s the ground on which we stand to become lawyers and academics and policy writers and journalists and activists. It’s allowed us reproductive freedom and put us on equal footing with those without wombs; mainly cis men who, for centuries, saw our bodies as countries to rape and pillage. Our wombs were colonised – the cock was the flag that ploughed deep into our stolen earth.

Balloons are to be banned outside in the Ballina Shire from next year after a unanimous council vote Thursday morning.