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28/10/2025

Byron Shire Council staff are refusing to answer questions around the cost to ratepayers around plans to develop, along with government-run developer Landcom, the 57 Station Street carpark into ‘affordable housing’ units.

28/10/2025

Byron’s Sunseeker Motel is set for a $2.3 million development, including the construction of a new two-storey accommodation block that will provide holiday accommodation for up to 40 additional people.

28/10/2025

Tweed Council meeting roundup – what transpired?

The Tweed Shire Council meeting from October 23 was mostly uniform in voting patterns, with the majority of items seeing a unanimous vote. Issues addressed included development applications, roadworks, adoptions of committee meetings, financials and questions with notice.

27/10/2025

Yes it's THAT time of year!
Stay safe people

White the NSW Rural Fire Service report there are dozens of 'Alert' level fires between Tweed Heads and Coff Harbour, Essential Energy has posted several power outage locations on their website.

27/10/2025

Oh no!

The Bangalow Bowlo was closed without notice on Friday by Norths Collective shocking the local community.

26/10/2025

TOTAL FIRE BAN TODAY!

A Total Fire Ban has been declared for the North Coast, Northern Slopes, Far North Coast and New England regions for tomorrow, Monday, Ocotber 27, owing to forecast of hot and windy conditions.

26/10/2025

Chris Hedges afflicting the comfortable…

Before Chris Hedges could even deliver his speech on the silencing and betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club of Australia cancelled the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent's invitation. Last week he delivered the speech anyway, at an event in Sydney.

26/10/2025

TOMORROW!!!!

A Total Fire Ban has been declared for the North Coast, Northern Slopes, Far North Coast and New England regions for tomorrow, Monday, Ocotber 27, owing to forecast of hot and windy conditions.

22/10/2025

Bob Brown Foundation highlights industrial destruction of krill and whales in Antarctica

Activists have today unveiled a life-sized dead juvenile humpback out the front of the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic and Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) building in Hobart, calling for an end to krill fishing in Antarctica.

21/10/2025

Good news for Lismore

The NSW government says Lismore Base Hospital has now begun rostering to Safe Staffing Levels in the emergency department (ED), delivering on its promise to deliver the historic staffing reform.

21/10/2025

Alarming implications for environmental protection and local oversight if planning law changes go through

Ballina Shire Council's Cr Kiri Dicker will move a motion in tomorrow's meeting to oppose the state government's proposed reforms to the environmental planning and assessment act.

21/10/2025

Dr Luke Robinson on the science of flood mitigation

Dr Luke Robinson reflects on the recent community consultation session in Lismore, 'Science in the Club: nature-based solutions for flood resilience'.