Member for Ballina Don Page has welcomed the call for expressions of interest to acquire land for the new Byron Shire Central Hospital which he says will complement the planned expansion of services at Ballina Hospital.
Mr Page said the North Coast Area Health Service was seeking interest from landowners willing to sell a suitable site [...]
Three Ballina schools are among eight local schools in the Page electorate which will share in a total of $458,700 in Australian Government Investing in Our Schools Capital Infrastructure funding.
Federal Nationals Member for Page Ian Causley announced the funding, saying that the eight local independent schools will use the grants for projects that are important [...]
NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann reports on where they’re biting around Ballina and Lennox Head …
Bruce Legge at Dave’s Bait Shop says the whiting are still going well up to Pimlico Island on live bloodworms, with a few good flatties to 5kg coming from North Creek up to Pimlico.
A few school jew are poking [...]
Around 40 children with disabilities are once again set to descend on Lake Ainsworth at at Lennox Head for the 11th annual Camp Willing and Able.
Camp Willing and Able gives camp participants the opportunity to take part in activities like sailing, canoeing, archery and beach games.
Organised by NSW Sport and Recreation, the camp will be [...]
How good was it to see Jason Gillespie score a double century against Test cricket minnows Bangladesh!
His 201 not out makes him the only nightwatchman to score a double ton.
‘Dizzy’ has often played a strong supporting role which enabled established batsmen to get to a hundred or to dig Australia out of trouble.
He previously had [...]
Quiksilver is taking its Revolution Tour — a surf, skate and music show — to South-East Asia, starting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on April 22.
Quiksilver says Australian surf stars Ry Craike and Julian Wilson will be joined by international bands and thousands of fans for a ‘Big Day Out’ style celebration.
The surfers will be strutting [...]
Ballina’s Thursday Plantation is inviting artists to submit proposals for the annual East Coast Sculpture Show.
The 11th annual show will be at Thursday Plantation, on the Pacific Highway just north of town, from September 24 until January 31.
An acquisition fund of $15,000 is offered, along with prizes totalling almost $5000.
Artists have until June 9 to [...]
The third annual Far North Coast Netball Junior Player Development and Coach Education Camp is being held at Lake Ainsworth, Sport and Recreation Centre, Lennox Head, on April 21–23.
There will be more than 70 10-year-old to12-year-old girls in attendance. They represent a wide cross section of players from the region from Tweed Heads in the [...]
Just one choice could mean the difference between an Easter holiday or an Easter tragedy, police have warned, adding that double demerit points apply until midnight on Monday.
On the eve of Operation Tortoise, the State’s Easter road safety campaign, police have revealed that too many people were making choices that left them unprotected on the [...]
The 24 police officers who will walk the Kokoda Track for charity will find the going tough but will be much richer for the experience. Papua New Guinea is like that.
I haven’t walked the Kokoda Track, but I’ve spent time in the north of PNG. It was the experience of a lifetime.
Arriving in Madang on [...]
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