Ballina Information Blog

The Ballina Tourism Hospitality race day, featuring the Gem Array Ballina Bracelet, will be held at the Ballina Jockey Club on Friday, July 23. It will be the inaugural Ballina Tourism & Hospitality race day. Secretary for Ballina Tourism & Hospitality, Dave Heggie, said: “Ballina Tourism & Hospitality is the private sector tourism industry’s membership [...]

The sounds of jazz will chase away the winter blues when the Ballina Beach Village hosts a non-stop jazz music weekend. Festival director Steven Russell (who is head of keyboard studies at SCU) has put together an impressive line-up of quality jazz artists, featuring the sensational Willy Qua and the new Galapagos Duck with guest [...]

Police are investigating the death of a man during a boating trip at Ballina yesterday afternoon. Just after 2pm, the 21-foot motorboat was heading across Ballina Bar when it appears to have been swamped by a large wave and overturned. Four men were thrown into the water. A jet ski and another passing boat managed [...]

The NSW Trustee & Guardian, formerly Public Trustee NSW, will be holding a special Wills Day in Ballina on July 20 at Ballina Courthouse to offer residents the opportunity to make or update their will. It is important for adults to have a legally valid will and regularly update it as their personal circumstances change, [...]

Stan Tilley, the Ballina swimming coach who shaped the careers of champions such as Olympians Petria Thomas and Adam Pine, has died. Mr Tilley passed away at Crowley retirement home on Tuesday. His death came just weeks before his 85th birthday. Mr Tilley was born in Ipswich on July 31, 1925. He was married to [...]

A pair of endangered Beach Stone-curlews has been scouting for a nest site in Richmond River Nature Reserve, South Ballina. National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Ranger, Holly North, said that for the first time on record a pair of Beach Stone-Curlews successfully raised a chick in the nature reserve last year and it is [...]

Super aerialist Josh Kerr will introduce his Kerrazy Airshow Invitational to this year’s Rusty Gromfest which begins on Friday at Lennox Head. Who better than Josh Kerr to hand-pick a group of surfers from the competition and free surfing sessions to surf in this specialized Kerrazy Airshow Invitational session? The session will include Nixon prizes [...]

Ballina Shire Council is continuing its climate action planning process with the ‘Community Conversations about Climate Change’ event at the Ballina RSL this Thursday from 6pm. The event will see 150 people gather together to talk about what climate change means to them and what they think we, as a community, can do about it. [...]

The Member for Ballina, Don Page, has welcomed the concept of a new tourist drive between Ross Lane near Lennox Head and Ewingsdale near Byron Bay. The proposed name of the tourist drive is The Hinterland Way and early plans show it will take the route of what will be the old Pacific Highway when [...]

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is calling on beach drivers at South Ballina to exercise caution during the school holidays following complaints about reckless driving. NPWS ranger Holly North said that there had been complaints about four-wheel-drives damaging sand dunes and driving excessively fast. “This is of particular concern to us due to [...]