An intoxicated woman copped a $550 fine early Sunday after refusing to leave the area of a nightclub in Byron Bay after being refused entry.
Byron Bay Police were patrolling the Byron Bay CBD about 12.15am on Sunday when they came across a 27-year-old Ballina woman arguing with security at a Jonson Street nightclub.
Shoalhaven Council is issuing cease-and-desist orders to local farmers who use YouCamp to rent camping spaces on their property. This raises the question: Will Byron Shire Council do the same?
Farmers who want to rent campsites out to the public are facing legal action from Shoalhaven City Council.
Mark ‘Mono’ Stewart was only an occasional surfer until, at the age of 16, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma.
The aggressive bone cancer took his leg and threatened his life.
“They didn’t tell me but they told my parents to not look beyond a couple of years,” he said.
A NEW film has begun shooting on the North Coast this week at a cane field off Ross Lane, Lennox Head.
Scarlett, a supernatural thriller with a $2.7 million budget, will shoot over five weeks at several locations including Lennox, Mullumbimby, Murwillumbah, Byron Bay and a property outside Bangalow.
As coastal councils brace for another hammering of their beaches over the weekend, new research methods are emerging that could help local communities assess the threats from beach erosion.
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Australian councils, including Byron Shire Council, are addressing climate change at a grassroots level.
Last December, the Mayor of Byron Shire Council was in Paris. Along with a handful of other Australian mayors, Mayor Simon Richardson had been invited to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21.
Richardson presented on several occasions, spruiking an ambitious project that had started to draw attention at a national and international level: a plan for the entire Byron community to reach zero emissions within the next ten years.
A partnership between independent think tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE), the Byron Shire Council, and the local community, the plan – Zero Emissions Byron (ZEB) – aims to address carbon emissions across multiple sectors: buildings, energy, land use, transport and waste.
PRESIDENT of the Byron Bay Boardriders Club Neil Cameron hailed the success of last weekend’s Ben King Classic saying it was a fitting way to pay tribute to club stalwart the late Ben King.
“The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and it was a great way to honour BK,” he said.
“The competitions reputation is spreading and there were heaps of gun surfers from all over the East Coast competing over the weekend.
“The surf was pumping with six foot of solid swell on Saturday.
BYRON Bay band PLTS (read as Pilots) has been selected by Triple J Unearthed to be part of this year’s Splendour in the Grass line-up.
Every year, a local band is picked by the broadcaster to grace the Splendour stage. PLTS’s latest single, On & On, was on rotation on Triple J last January.
Dave Ruby Howe, Triple J Unearthed Music Director, said the broadcaster was very happy with the band.
A feasibility study for shark spotting will take place at Watego’s Beach.
The trial will be carried out by members of Sea Shepherd and will determine whether the location and spotting abilities at Wategos Beach are suitable for a longer term shark spotting program.
The study will examine the impact of morning and afternoon glare, spotting distance from water, changes in visibility in differing weather conditions and levels of water user activity at different times of the day.