Ballina Information Blog

Ballina Shire Council Council will officially launch the local section of the National Trust’s Annual Heritage Festival on Friday April 4 at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery with the opening of the ‘The Hills Look Down to the Sea: A glimpse at the European heritage of the Ballina Shire’ exhibition, at 10.30am. The council is again [...]

Police have arrested and charged a man with the murder of a woman, found dead at Alstonville this morning. About 3.40am today, police from Richmond Local Area Command attended a house in Deegan Drive, where they discovered the body of a 48-year-old woman. She had sustained injuries to her upper body. A crime scene was [...]

The Child Support Agency (CSA) is holding a free Community Information Session on 9 April 2008 at 6:30pm for separated parents in Lismore and the surrounding region. “Representatives from Centrelink, Medicare Australia, Legal Aid, the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Family Relationship Centres and other local community service providers have been invited,” Page MP Janelle Saffin said. “This [...]

NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s recent comments that he is prepared to look at political donations reform has received support from an unlikely quarter. Ballina MP Don Page says he has again reaffirmed his support for the abolition of all political donations from developers, associations and unions. “The current public perception is that corporations and organisations [...]

  Tintenbar-East Ballina captain Brett Crawford, above, has confirmed his status as one of the greatest all-rounders to play the game locally after winning his fourth Far North Coast L J Hooker League Cricketer of the Year award. Crawford polled16 votes to win the award from Alstonville batsman Greg Potter (14), Lennox Head’s Mark Denmeade (13), [...]

The North Coast Nationals MPs Don Page, Thomas George, Steve Cansdell and Geoff Provest, are calling for a tick crisis meeting following an outbreak of deadly cattle disease in Alstonville and Burringbar this week. Clarence Nationals MP Steve Cansdell said the meeting should be held in the region’s beef capital Casino as soon as possible. [...]

Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says the river has been fishing really well for whiting and flathead with quite a few bream around as well. A few blackfish also starting to appear around the walls. Some school jew up-river around Pimlico to Wardell. Mud crabs are starting to move upstream again but still a few [...]

It’s flat this morning but there is real promise for the weekend. There’s a nice offshore and the forecast for Saturday is south-west to south-east winds, and a westerly is predicted for Sunday. All we need is a spike in the swell. Marine weather: W/SW 5/10 knots, tending SE. Sea: About 1 metre. Swell: S/SE [...]

The Member for Page, Janelle Saffin, is reminding secondary schools they have until the end of next week to apply for funding in the first round of the National Secondary Schools Computer Fund. Ms Saffin says the Rudd Labor Government is investing $1 billion over four years in the Digital Education Revolution, to improve secondary [...]

Members of Australian Seabird (and Sea Turtle) Rescue celebrated another successful sea turtle rehabilitation this week in Byron Bay. The magnificent Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) was found by Ballina Shire Council employee James Brideson, stranded and distressed in thick polluted storm foam on Angels Beach on January 11. Suffering from severe Float Syndrome, “Angel” [...]