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State and federal politicians had a busy day in Lismore yesterday including the official opening of the Lismore Skatepark, an ...
Just to be frank, I don’t think there is a future for electricity distribution, or local or regional battery storage in suburban, regional, or rural areas. China is showing the world that home ...
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Way to go Mayor Sarah Ndiaye. Brunswick Heads paid parking, no longer free for residents; Mullumbimby’s town entrance destroyed forevermore and Byron Bay becoming the ‘Kings Cross’ of the Northern ...
Over the weekend we saw the cancellation of the Byron Writers Festival owing to another significant rain event on the NSW east coast.
A contract awarded to a joint venture between CMC Group and JF Hull Holdings for the region’s largest road restoration package, is underway as part of Lismore’s long-term recovery from the 2022 floods ...
Motorists travelling west from the coast today are being warned that a fuel tanker roll-over at Applethorpe, approximately 5k ...
Lismore-based lawyer Steve Bolt has recently retired, after thirty years of practice in the Northern Rivers. The Echo caught ...
The ongoing debate over the introduction of a Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP) in the Byron CBD is set to continue at ...
Community members made homeless by recent NSW Reconstruction Authority evictions are camping outside the Labor MP's office at ...
Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has officially opened a state-of-the-art facility in Canberra to safeguard more than 13 million irreplaceable biodiversity specimens ...
Recently the Local Government Association commissioned a study which revealed that state and federal governments are cost-shifting the costs of services and infrastructure on to local councils and ...
Tweed Shire Council is now asking residents to vote for their favourite to win the People’s Choice award, from the thirty-three local groups and individuals who have been nominated for the Tweed ...