Love Advice from Me (and John Legend) to You
Local author Jordanna Levin shares advice for finding true love from her latest book, Higher Love.
Vasudhara Foundation Supports Vulnerable Women in Byron
Byron Community Centre receives generous donation for caseworkers to support people sleeping rough.
Zenith Virago is the 2021 Byron Shire Citizen of the Year
An educator, facilitator, consultant, speaker, author, marriage celebrant, and Deathwalker.
What's On: Byron Bay Surf Festival
It’s time for some surfing fun, music, art and culture.
Toys Change Lives: Behind Brushes Not Bars
Toys Change Lives is a program for previously incarcerated or at-risk Indigenous youth, helping them to get their lives back on track.
Helen Hamilton Wins 2020 Northern Rivers Volunteer of the Year Award
Helen helped establish the Liberation Larder community meal service and founded the COVID response initiative the Byron Community Pantry.
Cultivating an Inner Resource
Learn how to cultivate your inner resource; a memory or a visualisation that supports you to tap into your innate sense of being and ok-ness.
Six Local Organisations Awarded $100,000 for Environmental and Social Projects
Six Northern Rivers programs are the lucky recipients of the Northern Rivers Large Grants Program 2020, run by local independent brewery Stone & Wood’s not-for-profit, the inGrained Foundation.
Staying Healthy with Connected Kindness
Coronavirus can be seen as a disaster, or it can be seen as a chance to create a stronger, more vibrant and caring global community.
Will the ‘Mullum Hug’ Become Extinct?
Are you missing those long heartfelt Mullum-style hugs? Here’s how to find connection in a time of COVID-19.
Holiday-makers Asked to Put the Local Community’s Health First
As the Byron Shire welcomes visitors back for school holidays, holiday-makers are asked to be extra considerate of the local community to help keep everyone healthy.
Time to Get Grubby on International Mud Day
Here’s one for the kids! We’re hanging out with Dirtgirl, Scrapboy and Costa the Garden Gnome to celebrate all things muddy for International Mud Day. Are you ready to get muddy?
Byron Bay’s Railway Park Takes Out State Landscape Awards
The park has been transformed into a welcoming, open and green community space for Byron locals and visitors to play, rest and connect to nature.
Easing Travel Restrictions Sees Byron Re-opening to Visitors
What is Byron going to look like as we start to welcome tourists back to our beautiful shores?
Thousands at Black Lives Matter Protest in Byron Bay
Byron locals marched in solidarity with protesters in America and to highlight systemic racism and Indigenous deaths in police custody in Australia.
New Totem Pole at the Gateway to Mullumbimby
After two years of hard work by skilled local artists and volunteers, the 15-metre high Uplift totem is in place incorporating the goanna, whale, dolphin and carpet snake, which are sacred to the Bundjalung people.
Byron Volunteers Recognised as the Beating Heart of Our Shire
At this uncertain time it is more important than ever to recognise and acknowledge our amazing volunteers during National Volunteers Week who work hard to uplift our community.