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Indigenous Authors Dominate Book Sales at Byron Writers Festival 2019
This weekends Byron Writers Festival, wrapped its 23rd year with record ticket sales and Indigenous authors dominating the best selling books at the Festival.... Read Story
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Lismore Opens Australia's Largest Floating Solar Farm
The City of Lismore yesterday formally opened the country’s largest floating solar installation, and flagged plans to increase its size five-fold or more and to... Read Story
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Superb Splendour
2019 Splendour Day 1 dawned sunny and bright as did Days 2 and 3. It was definitely warm enough to justify those summer dresses and... Read Story
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Byron Writers Festival Presents The Art of Crime
Celebrated crime writers Michael Robotham and Jock Serong along with author Kristina Olsson and poet Omar Sakr are doing their time for crime, on the... Read Story
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Splendour Campers Helping the Homeless
A campaign is underway for Splendour campers to donate their unwanted camping gear at the end of the festival to those who can use it... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Deadlock: New Drama Draws on Real Life Experience of Rural Teens
In 2006, a single-vehicle car crash near Byron Bay killed four teenagers, making headlines nationally and prompting a change in laws for new drivers. Now new... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Byron Council Considers Commercial Expansion Options
Increasing the height and density of Byron Shire’s retail centres, and creating a new industrial estate next to the Bluesfest site are among the ideas... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Board Riders Tow Dead Whale to Keep Great Whites Out of Surf Break
A surfer at Angourie Point used a boat’s anchor to drag a dead whale 50 metres out to sea to protect board riders from great... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Surfing Without Leg Ropes Like 'driving without brakes'
A former Greens MP says tough regulations may be needed to combat reckless behaviour in the surf, and a lawyer specialising in sports believes surfers... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Six Month Wait For Pay Rate Confirmation: FSG
Front line staff employed by FSG, a disability service provider that recently went into voluntary administration, have been given until Monday (July 16) to accept... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Work Starts on New Digital Learning Centre
Lismore MP Thomas George has turned the first sod of the multi-million-dollar Murwillumbah Connected Learning Centre (CLC), which he says will ‘significantly increase and expand... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Gay Farmers Go Naked to Help Raise Awareness of Mental Health
When The Naked Farmer came to town looking for people to get their kit off for a good cause, dairy farmer Kerry Wilson was approached... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
Call to Shut Down Tweed Water Mining Plant
The Tweed Water Alliance (TWA) has called for one of the Shire’s water extraction permits to be cancelled after what the group alleges are multiple... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events -
The Sample Food Festival has been soaring to new heights in the past couple of years, so where better to launch this year’s event than... Read MorePosted: , in News & Events