They started out training on the sand at Seven Mile Beach and running night circuits under car headlights at Pat Morton Lookout. Now Lennox Head’s newest sporting club, the Lennox Saints AFL team, is eyeing a permanent home ground. Formed this year as part of the...
A long-discussed plan to reinstate a bridge linking Ballina and Lennox Head over North Creek is facing growing opposition from residents living along the proposed route. Residents fear it will become a “highway to Byron Bay” that offers little amenity to Ballina...
A 69-year-old Ballina man will serve up to 12 years and nine months in prison for the death of his partner, Lindy Lucena, in January 2023. Robert Huber pleaded guilty to manslaughter after what the court heard was a violent and sustained assault while the pair were...
Ballina Shire residents will have the chance to sharpen their emergency readiness when Missingham Park hosts the Ballina Emergency Services Expo on Saturday, September 20. The whole family is welcome and it’s a chance to see emergency service vehicles close up,...
The countdown is on for the 11th Oceania Cup, an all-female soccer tournament hosted by the Alstonville & District Football Club. After a winter season plagued by rain, anticipation is building for two action-packed days of competition and celebration of...
Ballina will roar to life this weekend as hundreds of women riders gather in a bold attempt to smash not one, but three world records — and put the town back on the global motorcycling map. The event is the brainchild of Deborah Geerts, a South Australia–based...
Local businesses and travellers have welcomed the decision by Qantas to reinstate early morning and evening flights between Ballina and Sydney. The new services begin on October 27, giving passengers the option to fly south in the morning and return the same...
The creation of the Great Koala National Park on the Mid North Coast has local Greens MPs and conservationists hopeful that a Richmond River Koala Park will be next. NSW Greens Upper House MP Sue Higginson says a proposal for a second large-scale reserve, covering...
Ballina’s community spirit has once again been called upon, as locals rally to support 17-year-old Sophie Moran, a Xavier Catholic College student left fighting for her life after what began as a case of influenza. The Moran family’s world has been turned upside...
The price tag on Ballina’s most prominent privately owned heritage building has agents casting their net far and wide to find a buyer with deep pockets. Ballina Manor, the Edwardian-style mansion on the corner of Norton and Crane streets, was built in 1924 as the...
Fed up with misbehaviour at meetings and dodgy planning decisions taking place behind closed doors, the Minns Government is pushing ahead with sweeping reforms to local councils. Some of the new rules have drawn strong opposition from local council organisations —...
