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Police have fined staff in a Bangalow health food store for failing to wear face masks. Just a week ago, it was possible for someone to legally refuse to prove exemption from face-mask rules in NSW, even to a police officer. But the government has since updated applicable law and anyone who cannot wear a face mask because of a disability, physical or mental health illness or condition must now carry proof of exemption. Acceptable proof of exemption is listed as either a medical certificate or letter signed by a health practitioner or a registered NDIS provider, or a statutory declaration.

Mia Armitage & Hans Lovejoy As the Greater Sydney area heads into further lockdown, local health authorities say a known COVID-19 infected case stopped at Chinderah truck stop at the Ampol service station (northbound), 112 Tweed Valley Way, near Murwillumbah turnoff. The confirmed case is known to have used the truck drivers’ toilets, showers and lounge, and the food court between 8.30pm on July 13 and 7.30am on July 14, according to NSW Health. Image National Genome Health Research Institute A Health District statement, released on Monday, says more than 40 people are now self-isolating. ...

Normal text size Very large text size There is no way to tell the story of a place as beautiful, fractious, mocked, stereotyped and beloved as Byron Bay, unless you admit, firstly, that everyone will have their own version. You fell in love here, married here, gave birth here. You came to get well, or die here. Your life fell apart here. You wrote your book here, or spent years pretending to do so. You danced till dawn in the hills, learnt to surf on those perfectly formed point breaks. You kayaked with dolphins and sea turtles; you heard the migratory humpback whales singing their way up the...

Michael McDonald Locals fought long and hard against Club Med in Byron Bay and eventually won through the courts. Photo Jeff Dawson. The art of the peaceful protest has been a staple of Byron Shire life since the ‘new settlers’ arrived in the 1970s, searching for that rainbow at the end of conformity. It has taken on elements of theatre and of humour, often expressed through costume, dance, music and that ubiquitous medium, face-painting. In 1991, as well as protests against indiscriminate government logging mentioned in Archive #2, some 400 people took to the streets of Byron Bay in Jan...

Date Time Three new bridges and one causeway earmarked for Byron Shire Byron Shire Council is replacing three bridges and one causeway as part of the NSW Government’s Fixing Country Bridges Program and the Federal Government’s Bridges Renewal Program. Upper Main Arm Bridge at Upper Main Arm, Sherrington’s Bridge at The Pocket and Englishes Bridge at Upper Coopers Creek are timber bridges that are in poor condition and $1.57 million from the Fixing Country Bridges Program will allow for the replacement of all three. “With the exception of the refurbished South Arm Bridge at Brunswick H...