A GROUP of Byron Bay women is revolutionising the town with a new reuseable shopping bag system.
Plastic never biodegrades, and with the government is not making any moves to ban plastic bags, so the Byron Mermaids are sewing reusable “boomerang” bags for people to borrow and bring back.
BYRON Shire artist Robert Ryan has been named as one of this year’s finalist of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Wynne Prize.
The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for “the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists”.
ACCORDING to numerologists the number five is the most dynamic and energetic of all single digit numbers.
That is undoubtedly why the Byron Writers Festival 2016 is again hosting the Five Writers Road Trip.
Five writers will head to five towns in five days, talking writing and reading for free at pubs, clubs, cafes, galleries, schools, libraries, service stations, bus stops… wherever there are readers, the fearless 555 will go.
WHO CAN remember what blocks of land went for right after Watego’s Beach went on sale, back around the time Bill Schoon was in town?
THERE is now a general cancer support group in Byron Bay for anyone living in the Northern Rivers. Meetings will be held monthly on the first Tuesday of the month…
BYRON BAY'S Pauly Punk is on at the Beach Hotel tonight. The Wandering Eyes frontman will hit the stage around 5pm. Pauly's OneManBand loop show and his multi-instrumentalist talents will…
BYRON Bay’s Ferris Gump has made it to Darwin. After 66 days running the long way from Townsville along the Savannah Way pulling his 50kg trailer, Ferris a.k.a. Byron Bay’s Ben Ferris arrived in Darwin.
His mission was to raise awareness and funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and he will now spend 6 months in Darwin preparing for his next ultra marathon.
WINNING becomes a habit. The Evans Head Bombers, an honest but not outstanding team, have acquired it. Byron Bay’s Red Devils have gone cold turkey on it.
Saturday’s NRRRL clash between the two sides at Stan Payne Oval was a classic example of one being able to find a way to victory and the other unable to grasp it when it was virtually in the palm of their hand.
Byron Bay's Belongil Beach access has been closed. The sign at the top of the stairway leading to the beach reads "Beach access temporarily CLOSED due to coastal erosion." Byron…
Have the health benefits of fluoride in drinking water been overstated?
Byron Bay is one of 19 towns in NSW without fluoride in the water supply. And it might remains that way as Australian health authorities review the case for fluoride in drinking water amid concerns scientific evidence supporting the benefits and risks to people’s health may have shifted.