• Grease comes to Stanwell Park theatre

    IN a first for the Stanwell Park Arts Theatre (SPAT), the company are branching out into musicals with the ’50s rock classic Grease. Featuring a local cast of young actors, come along and jive, sing, and…

  • Reports of deer hunting at Stanwell Park

    HUNTERS have allegedly cut up the carcass of a deer with a large machete in the early hours of this morning at Stanwell Park. Police are appealing for witnesses following reports of illegal hunting close…

  • Looking Back history feature: The Bulli Rifle Range

    Originally posted on Looking Back: The Bulli Rifle Range in the 1940s By MICK ROBERTS© The 34th Battalion were regular users of the Bulli Rifle Range during the war year. The houses in the…

  • Annual Spring into Corrimal festival this Sunday

    PREPERATIONS are well in hand for the largest one-day free family festival in regional NSW this Sunday at Corrimal. The Spring into Corrimal festival attracts crowds in excess of 60,000. Corrimal’s streets will be…

  • Northern schools help launch Rise & Shine campaign

    SCHOOL students from throughout the northern suburbs attended an Environmental Expo, Enviro 2019 at the Wollongong Botanic Garden today, where 34 years of the Rise and Shine Campaign was celebrated. Wollongong Lord Mayor Gordon…

  • Looking Back History Feature: The Bulli Beach Park Estate

    Originally posted on Looking Back: By MICK ROBERTS © A South Coast Times advertisement for Floyd’s Estate at Bulli Beach in 1913 WANIORA Point, the parkland fronting Bulli Beach was for the early part…

  • Food recycling trial starts this week in Austinmer

    HOUSEHOLDS in Austinmer will this week officially start Wollongong City Council’s three-month trial of Food Organics/Garden Organics or FOGO. FOGO provides people the opportunity to place household waste such as raw and cooked meat,…

  • Man charged with sexually touching a patient at aged care facility

    A MAN has been charged for allegedly sexually touching a patient at an aged care facility within a hospital north of Wollongong. Police allege the incident between two patients, aged 80 and 89, occurred…

  • Road works will see lane closures at Stanwell Park next week

    Motorists are advised by Transport for NSW of changed traffic conditions next week on Lawrence Hargrave Drive for investigation work to be carried out between Otford Road and Chellow Dene Avenue. Lane closures will…