• Outboard motor returned to Scarborough Wombarra Surf Club

    SCARBOROUGH Wombarra Surf Club’s outboard motor has been returned after Wollongong Police believes it smashed an organised crime operation. Police believe they have broken the crime syndicate, made-up of about three or four people,…

  • Coledale man missing for over decade

    AS part of this year’s Missing Persons Week, police are renewing their appeal to locate a man who went missing from Coledale more than 11 years ago. Robert Neville, also known as Bobby, was…

  • Looking Back history feature: On the buses

    Originally posted on Looking Back: A Hills double decker, travelling north along the Princes Highway at Old Bulli By MICK ROBERTS © BUS transport to and from Wollongong has been readily accessible to Illawarra’s…

  • Looking Back history feature: The Boy Cope

    Originally posted on Looking Back: The scene at the pit top, Bulli Colliery, March 23 1887. Photo: Mick Roberts collection. By MICK ROBERTS © Herbert Cope, 17, one of the few survivors of the…

  • Looking Back history feature: Dunny cans and the queen

    Originally posted on Looking Back: The Queen at Slacky Flat, Bulli 1954 By MICK ROBERTS © Ken Henson on Bulli Railway Station in 2004, with a couple of old sanitary pans that were disguised…

  • Residents prepare for Austinmer food waste recycling trial

    WITH just over a month to go until the start of the Food Organics Garden Organics – or FOGO – trial, letters have been sent to participating Austinmer households. Selected households in Austinmer have…

  • Looking Back History Feature: A working man’s club

    Originally posted on Looking Back: Helensburgh and Lilyvale Workmen’s Club By MICK ROBERTS © The club under construction ALTHOUGH Helensburgh Tradies Club began trading on shaky grounds, and has relocated to a new site,…

  • Looking Back Feature: Little House on the Hill, The Denmark Hotel

    Originally posted on Looking Back: The Old Denmark Hotel, Bulli 2015… Waiting for restoration. By MICK ROBERTS © YOU can’t help but notice the declining health of the grand old lady from the past when…

  • Disruptions as Bulli Pass road barriers repaired this weekend

      MOTORISTS are advised by the Roads and Maritime Services of changed traffic conditions from Sunday on Bulli Pass for maintenance work to be carried out between Lawrence Hargrave Drive and Bungalow Road. Work…