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Partial approval recommended for DA at Dunbible for unauthorised dwelling

Following compliance investigations at 300 Bakers Road, Dunbible, Tweed Shire Council staff have recommended approval of stages one and two, but not stage three of the development application. 

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Pedestrian dies after hit-and-run in Bangalow

A pedestrian has died after a fail-to-stop crash in Bangalow this morning.

Answer the question

Mullumbimby needs as much affordable housing as it can get. The Byron Shire Council (BSC) agrees, the state government...

Into the twilight

A new documentary, Twilight Time, is coming to Palace Byron Bay and Nimbin Bush Theatre as part of a series of event screenings (also Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin).

70-year-old hits tree in South Golden Beach

A woman aged in her 70s is on her way to hospital after her car hit a tree in South Golden Beach.

Re Editorial

As an avid regular reader of The Echo, I feel disappointed because in your latest editorial there was no...

A deathly success

The annual Death & Dying Expo took place on Saturday at Mullumbimby Civic Memorial Hall and was a great success, drawing a large, engaged crowd from across the Northern Rivers.

Stories about "WWII":

Private Kevin Francis Hogan and Private Owen Patrick McGuire

Many people are aware of the Japanese attack, in May 1943, on the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur, but few perhaps realise that a number of war dead and survivors were from the Northern Rivers.

Marcel Marceau, Mayonnaise & Me

In Monsieur Mayonnaise Australian artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora investigates his father’s clandestine role in the French Résistance in WWII and his mother’s miraculous...

The trauma of war and a father remembered in song

Byron Bay musician Nyck Jeanes is not a lover of war – he saw what the Second World War did to his father. But he believes we need to talk about, not cover up, Australians’ wartime experiences. And he's written a song in his dad's memory.

Tribute to Paul ‘Campo’ Campton as police reappeal for information on the fatal hit-and-run in Bangalow

The Byron Shire Rebels Rugby will pay tribute to  Paul ‘Campo’ Campton this Saturday as they host Casuarina in Bangalow. 

Temporary road and bridge closures – Alstonville and Tintenbar Bridge

Road closures for Alstonville and the Teven/Tintenbar Bridge will be taking place next week.

Opportunities for drug diversion improvements demonstrated in the UK

The scientific evidence is clear, and has been for a long time, that drug issues need to be treated as a health issue not as a police issue.

70-year-old hits tree in South Golden Beach

A woman aged in her 70s is on her way to hospital after her car hit a tree in South Golden Beach.