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Mental health explored at Ballina symposium
250 people attended the first free Community Mental Health Symposium last Thursday at Ballina RSL, with a range of expert speakers from various organisations explaining the dimensions of the problem and how best to move forward.
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Evans Head, Iron Gates DA public planning meeting coming
The current development application (DA) for the flood and bushfire-prone site of the Evans Head, Iron Gates development will go before the Northern Rivers Planning Panel (NRPP) on 30 August.
Recognition for Brunswick SLSC volunteers
Five national medals presented on behalf of Governor General David Hurley were some of the awards given to Brunswick...
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Federal Film Society work at building community through film and food every second Saturday of the month at...
AFL9s return to Byron after covid hiatus
Byron Bay’s Cavanbah Centre is set to host the two-day AFL9s Invitational tournament with $20,000 worth of prize money...
A melodious morning
Dean Doyle and Sophistication are back this week for Morning Melodies at the Ballina RSL. Dean, Narelle and Paul...
Where the Crawdads Sing
Abandoned by her family as a girl in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina, Kya Clark, otherwise known to...
Stories about "War on terror":
The real threat of terrorism to Australians, by numbers
How serious a threat is terrorism to Australians? We devote billions of taxpayer dollars to it, impose economic costs on ourselves and our industries and sacrifice some of our most basic freedoms for it. So it must be a huge threat to Australia, correct?
Local News
Have your say on aged care facility in Kingscliff
The developers of new $150 million redevelopment ‘designed to meet the growing and evolving needs of seniors in the region’, are inviting Kingscliff residents to take part in community consultation.
Byron Echo
Fuel stolen from farmer
Aslan Shand - 0
The cost of fuel continues to be a major consideration in the budget, particularly in country areas where distances travelled are inevitably further for your average daily needs like accessing shops, schools and other activities.
Byron Echo
Developer proposes light industrial in Federal
Paul Bibby - 0
Tasteful, reasonable and useful? Or noisy, oversized and intrusive? This is the question at the heart of the debate over a light industrial development that has been proposed for the heart of Federal.
Local News
‘We’re back!’ Homecoming for The Channon market
Eve Jeffery - 0
The reverberations of the February and March floods reached beyond things most people expected – one of those things was the state of Coronation Park at The Channon where every second Sunday of the month one of the biggest and best markets on the Far North Coast is held.
