CASINO’S much-loved ‘Town Crier’, Brenda Armfield, has been recognised for her support of Richmond Valley events and tourism by being named a Local Tourism Hero. The announcement was made at last week’s North Coast Tourism Symposium and Awards Gala Dinner in Grafton. Brenda is a...

BARKER Street Casino is about to get its very own park, thanks to a $340,000 NSW Government’s Streets as Shared Spaces grant. Borne out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Streets as Shared Spaces program provides one-off grant funding to support local councils to test and...

REGISTRATIONS are now open for the 2022 North Coast Petroleum Casino Truck Show, to be held on Saturday 6 August. This year, individuals and companies can register their trucks online by following this link: casinotruckshow.com.au. On-day entries will also be accepted. Entry is $30 per...

RICHMOND Valley Council’s 2022-2023 Budget includes a significant $50,611,790 capital works program to help the community recover from the devastating February-March flood events. A further $24,120,310 has been earmarked for 2023-2024 projects. The Budget also shows surplus budgets for all four years of the delivery...

THE $15M investment in the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange (NRLX) sees it continue to shine as a leader in livestock trading across NSW and Australia, passing a significant milestone this week. Following this Wednesday’s sale (15 June), the current revenue from sales for this financial...

RICHMOND Valley Mayor Robert Mustow has welcomed the NSW Government’s announcement of rate relief for flood-affected residents. Under the program, eligible ratepayers will have their residential, commercial and farm rates for the upcoming 2022/23 financial year covered by the NSW Government. “Council wrote to the...

RICHMOND Valley Council is calling for a new model for emergency management in NSW, following this year’s catastrophic flood events. In an 18-page submission to the 2022 NSW Flood Inquiry, Council said it was time to rethink the way that disaster response and recovery was...

THIS month’s Richmond Valley Council meeting received a range of reports which outline Council’s delivery and financial plans for the future. The Rebuilding the Richmond Valley Delivery Program sets out Council’s vision to help restore its community over the next three years, in partnership with...

IN a bid to encourage job creation, Richmond Valley Council is selling nine industrial-zoned lots at Reynolds Road, Casino. The lots, which are contained in the Richmond Valley Regional Job Precinct, range in size from 5000m2 to 5ha and were developed to attract employment-generating industries...

THE countdown is on for the inaugural 2022 Casino Cow Country Music Muster, and tickets are selling fast. In what is hoped to become the newest addition to the country music circuit, the Cow Country Music Muster will be held on the green at the...