Tweed Heads West

• Lismore underwater as 20,000 people evacuated in flood emergency

  Posted March 31, 2017 06:14:39 | Updated March 31, 2017 17:08:05

  About 20,000 people are evacuated, while 10,000 are without power and safe water supply as northern New South Wales is inundated by severe flooding.

  Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, murwillumbah-2484, nsw, lismore-2480, north-lismore-2480, condong-2484, tweed-heads-2485, tumbulgum-2490, bilambil-2486, mullumbimby-2482, uki-2484, fingal-head-2487, kingscliff-2487, chinderah-2487, tweed-heads-west-2485, tweed-heads-south-2486

• Chemical spill closes Pacific Highway

  Posted July 05, 2011 12:40:00

  Fire crews from New South Wales and Queensland are cleaning up a major chemical spill near Tweed Heads.

  Topics: road, emergency-incidents, tweed-heads-west-2485, nsw, tweed-heads-south-2486, qld

• Tweed Shire Councillors say no to gas mining

  Posted April 20, 2011 12:37:00

  Tweed Shire councillors have resolved to oppose gas exploration in the Tweed Valley.

  Topics: oil-and-gas, mining-industry, environmental-impact, local-government, tweed-heads-2485, tweed-heads-south-2486, tweed-heads-south-dc-2486, tweed-heads-west-2485

• Gas rumours refuted by department

  Posted April 08, 2011 09:44:00 | Updated April 17, 2011 09:43:00

  Rumours of a new gas mining licence west of the Tweed have been refuted by the New South Wales department which issues the licences.

  Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, oil-and-gas, tweed-heads-2485, coffs-harbour-2450, tweed-heads-south-2486, tweed-heads-south-dc-2486, tweed-heads-west-2485

• Top cop says Tweed stations not under-staffed

  Posted February 08, 2010 12:00:00

  One of the state's most senior police officers has rejected suggestions that stations in the Tweed area are understaffed.

  Topics: police, antisocial-behaviour, crime-prevention, tweed-heads-west-2485

• 1 dead, 44 ill in nursing home gastro outbreak

  Posted February 11, 2009 17:17:00 | Updated February 12, 2009 08:03:00

  A gastro outbreak at a nursing home in northern New South Wales has left one resident dead and 44 others ill.

  Topics: aged-care, community-and-society, health, diseases-and-disorders, healthcare-facilities, tweed-heads-west-2485, nsw, tweed-heads-2485

• League player bites off more then he can chew

  Posted July 17, 2007 11:00:00 | Updated July 17, 2007 11:16:00

  A Queensland rugby league player has been shocked to discover he has been living with an opponent's tooth embedded in his forehead for much of the past four months.

  Topics: rugby-league, human-interest, offbeat, tweed-heads-west-2485, wynnum-4178

• Wait for beds at Tweed Heads

  Posted November 21, 2006 16:32:00

  Emergency department patients at Tweed Heads are being forced to wait up to 48 hours for a hospital bed, says the Nationals candidate Geoff Provest.

  Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, health-administration, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, tweed-heads-2485, australia, nsw, brunswick-heads-2483, tweed-heads-south-2486, tweed-heads-south-dc-2486, tweed-heads-west-2485

• Sand sales 'could kill surf breaks'

  Posted November 17, 2006 05:47:00

  A Greens MP says some of the most famous surf breaks on the North Coast of New South Wales and southern Queensland are under threat from excessive sand pumping in the Tweed River entrance.

  Topics: environmental-management, oceans-and-reefs, surfing, tweed-heads-2485, byron-bay-2481, coolangatta-2535, lismore-2480, north-lismore-2480, tweed-heads-south-2486, tweed-heads-south-dc-2486, tweed-heads-west-2485

• Rain damage bill to soar to $25m

  Posted July 05, 2005 20:11:00

  The insurance bill from last week's torrential rain and flooding on the Gold Coast in south-east Queensland and the northern New South Wales is expected to reach at least $25 million.

  Topics: rainfall, insurance, coolangatta-2535, lismore-2480, north-lismore-2480, tweed-heads-2485, tweed-heads-south-2486, tweed-heads-south-dc-2486, tweed-heads-west-2485, burleigh-heads-4220, coolangatta-4225, kirra-4225, southport-4215

• Liberal staffers fined for taking Labor election posters

  Posted April 07, 2003 15:17:00

  Two staff members of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, have been convicted of removing New South Wales state election posters last month.

  Topics: crime, government-and-politics, courts-and-trials, tweed-heads-2485, tweed-heads-south-2486, tweed-heads-west-2485

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