Australia’s best and many of the world’s top young surfers charged the fantastic 2m surf at North Wall, Ballina, today in what many described as the best ever day in the illustrious 12-year Rusty Gromfest history.
With offshore winds and a powerful groundswell pushing through, it was no wonder the strong contingent of Tahitian surfers were [...]
Ballina’s North Wall again served up fantastic conditions — and the local sea-life served up an amazing show — for day two of the world’s most prestigious and original young surfer event at the Rusty Gromfest.
Girls 16 and 14 and under divisions along with the tiny Boys and Girls 12 and under rounds one were [...]
Local beaches will be on show when Channel Seven’s new documentary series, Surf Patrol, begins screening on Monday at 8pm.
The 13-part series will follow the brave men and women of Australia’s surf lifesaving movement as they patrol our most popular and treacherous beaches.
Executive producer Dan Meenan believes the program will follow in the footsteps carved [...]
The option of a freezer-full of fresh homemade sandwiches is now just a phone call away with the opening in Lennox Head last month of ‘Pack ‘n Dash’.
‘Pack n Dash’ offers customer’s budget priced, healthy frozen sandwiches in a range of fillings, which will sustain hungry tummies throughout the afternoon.
The business is the brainchild of [...]
Ballina’s North Wall once again proved a reliable back-up location as the Rusty Gromfest got under way a day late today.
After yesterday’s lay-day because of flat conditions and greeted with little swell at the favoured venue of Lennox Head, organisers switched the event to Ballina. North Wall, as it always does, picked up more swell [...]
NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann’s weekly fishing report for Ballina and Evans Head …
Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop reckons the beach fishing has been red-hot for tailor and bream with bag limits of both at times for the better fishos.
Best place has been South Ballina but they’re virtually all the way along the beach [...]
BP Australia announced today that the results of its investigation indicate that Ballina Petroleum had deliberately sold premium grades of fuel with a lower than advertised octane level at BP branded service stations owned and operated by the independent dealer in northern New South Wales.
As a result of what it said was the deliberate misrepresentation [...]
Hi, my name is Lyndal Denny — spokesperson for COAST to COAST 100. Tomorrow morning – Saturday July 7 from 9am, Ballina Fair Shopping Centre will be the venue for the launch of a long-overdue road safety campaign that will enable North Coast residents and visitors to finally DO something about the on-going problem of [...]
Well, after weeks of good surf, it had to happen — but the timing is rather unfortunate.
Today the swell is as flat as a pancake, forcing organisers of the Rusty Gromfest at Lennox Head to call a lay-day in the hope of a rising swell over the weekend.
Given the low pressure systems down south, it’s [...]
Member for Ballina Don Page has called on the NSW Labor Government to explain why it hasn’t pressed ahead with amendments to the NSW Coastal Policy, given it was 10 years ago since it was last updated.
“There have been a number of initiatives since 1997 that affect the policy, and a revision is well overdue,” [...]
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