Alison Leonard, thank you for your letter in last week’s Echo. Sadly being anti-Israel is often (not always) but mostly a thin guise of expressing antisemitism. If this was not the case, why are ...

Information 2024’ so wonderfully, satirically, and artistically presented by the Echo on its holiday edition cover page, it is discouraging to see more of the same in a letter by local correspondent ...

Congratulations Boring Bay, for hosting the lamest NYE event I have ever attended. I should have stayed home and watched paint dry rather than drive over from Lismore to partake of such a non-event.

What a surprise, not (!), that a new hydrotherapy pool included as part of the proposed expansion of the Cavanbah sports centre has been rejected by Byron Council. How wonderful it would be if such a ...

Ballina Shire Mayor Sharon Cadwallader says she will lead a peaceful community gathering outside Ballina Court on Friday as ...

Additional updated reports have been quietly added to Council’s website regarding an exclusive 38-large-lot subdivision DA ...

Coinciding with the return of Donald Trump to the US presidency, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp ...

There will be a community crime meeting at the Lennox Head Cultural Centre auditorium this Saturday, 11 January, from 5–6pm.

Danny Wakil wrote in last week’s Echo, ‘World peace starts in your own homes and community. Is your home a house of peace and understanding or a house of war?’ I could say the same about my newspaper, ...

The non-profit NGO Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) are preparing to re-launch a refreshed version of their Democracy Booklet initiative, ahead of the federal election this year.

The village of Tabulam, west of Casino, is on the path to securing its first ever drinking water supply network, thanks to a $400,000 investment from Kyogle Council and the Australian government’s ...

Smoking is gross. It stinks. It’s full of poison. It’s anti-social. It gives you cancer. It’s stupid expensive. It makes you look ten years older. But I loved it.