Motorists travelling west from the coast today are being warned that a fuel tanker roll-over at Applethorpe, approximately 5k ...

A contract awarded to a joint venture between CMC Group and JF Hull Holdings for the region’s largest road restoration package, is underway as part of Lismore’s long-term recovery from the 2022 floods ...

Tweed Shire Council is now asking residents to vote for their favourite to win the People’s Choice award, from the thirty-three local groups and individuals who have been nominated for the Tweed ...

A new report has revealed that as of June 2025,  there were 234 young people were in custody, marking a  34 per cent increase  compared to June 2023 ...

The 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was last week. We were taught this atrocity was necessary to end the war and we believed it.

Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has officially opened a state-of-the-art facility in Canberra to safeguard more than 13 million irreplaceable biodiversity specimens ...

The ongoing debate over the introduction of a Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP) in the Byron CBD is set to continue at ...

Lismore-based lawyer Steve Bolt has recently retired, after thirty years of practice in the Northern Rivers. The Echo caught ...

Community members made homeless by recent NSW Reconstruction Authority evictions are camping outside the Labor MP's office at ...

The 20th National Rail Safety Week is being marked with a solemn ceremony at the Australian Railway Monument in Werris Creek ...

Lone Goat Gallery's latest exhibition Numbuh opens this Saturday, 16 August, with a fusion of ancient stories and Blak ...

Council says it's hoping for third time lucky when it moves to reopen Belongil Creek to the ocean (hopefully) this week.