Ballina Seagulls rugby league team will meet arch-rivals Marist Brothers in the opening round of the 2006 Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League season on April 2.
The match will be at Ballina’s Kingsford Smith Park.
The Seagulls rounded out their pre-season preparation with a win in three grades over Lower Clarence at Maclean.
Ballina beat the Magpies 44-40 in A-grade, [...]
Tintenbar-East Ballina will contest their fifth L J Hooker League cricket grand final in the past six years when they take on Southern Districts in next weekend’s decider at Oakes Oval, Lismore.
The Bar won through with a convincing win over the previously unbeaten Eastern Districts in a semi-final. Souths beat Casino to advance to the [...]
It should be a great day’s racing when the Ballina Chamber of Commerce and Industry hosts its first ever raceday at the Ballina Jockey Club on Sunday, March 19.
Prizemoney for the seven-race meeting is well up on the usual local days, with $50,000 in total up for grabs.
Owners and trainers have responded accordingly, with 88 [...]
A strong northerly wind on Friday but there was still a solid north-east swell to 1.5m. North Flat Rock and South Ballina were the pick of the spots.
The Bureau of Meteorology was predicting east-south-easterly winds for Saturday rising to 20 knots on Sunday, with south to south-east winds to 30 knots by Monday.
Check the sheltered [...]
New South Wales Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann reports on the fishing around Ballina and Lennox Head …
Bruce Legge at Dave’s Bait Shop says the blue water is pushing up to around the Burns Point ferry, with quite a few bream, whiting and flathead on the edge of the dirty water upstream.
Blackfish have been taken [...]
Member for Ballina Don Page has announced that Byron Bay is set to receive additional community housing for families and individuals in need.
These Byron Bay properties would be in addition to two two-bedroom units being purchased in the Ballina Shire under the similar 2005/06 Crisis Accommodation Program, Mr Page said.
Mr Page said North Coast Community [...]
Fractures are the most common hospitalised sports injury, and playing football (including AFL, soccer, and rugby) is the most likely way you’ll get one, according to a report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The report, Hospitalised sports injury, Australia 2002-03, looks at sports injuries that were serious enough to result in [...]
The New South Wales Government’s long-term draft strategy tells Far North Coast residents what they already know — that this is a great place to live.
That’s why the region’s population has increased by 2500 people a year every year since 2001.
The Government predicts the region’s population will increase by 60,000 by 2031.
Ballina Shire can expect its [...]
Former Ballina resident Adam Pine will recite the athletes’ oath at the March 15 opening of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
The honour caps a great career for Pine, who will swim at his fourth Commonwealth Games.
Pine, 29, who now lives in Canberra, gained selection by winning the 100m butterfly in the Games trials on February 3.
More than 6000 [...]
The New South Wales Government says naming Ballina as a planned major regional centre recognises the importance of its airport and its role as a river and coastal lifestyle centre.
The Government says the strategy makes it clear new commercial and retail development should be concentrated in centres such as Ballina, rather than isolated locations.
Initiatives to support and maintain [...]
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