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Satirist Mark Twain said, ‘If you don’t read newspapers, you’re uninformed. If you read newspapers, you’re mis-informed.’

There is finally some movement on improvements to the Brunswick Heads Boat Harbour, with Transport for NSW Maritime announcing on its website it will fund electrical upgrades to the existing boating facilities.

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are yet to reply to claims by ecologists that proper process and transparency was ignored around the installation of an emergency communication tower on land known to be at-risk montane heathland, which allegedly exists nowhere else in the world. As previously reported in June, work stopped on an […]

Local businesses who have contributed in making the Byron Shire a great place to do business will be celebrated at a special event planned later in the year.

A number of small local businesses in Byron’s CBD say they face closure after Council’s announcement of major road/drainage works that could last more than three months into the busy summer trading period.

So far, three mayoral candidates have nominated for the September 14 Council election – current mayor Michael Lyon (Independent), Crs Sarah Ndiaye (Greens) and Asren Pugh (Labor).

The North Coast’s Independent News

The North Coast’s Independent News

Of those who have been involved in Byron businesses over the decades, almost everyone knows Ed Ahern.

The North Coast’s Independent News