• The Peter Pan of Wollongong

    LOCAL circus performer Heidi ‘Hoops’ Hillier doesn’t want to grown up! And why would she want to, when she can spin hula-hoops and dress up in silly costumes to make a crust? She has…

  • Paying tribute to Illawarra’s Aboriginal leaders

    WOLLONGONG City Council will host the 2013 NAIDOC Awards Dinner on Saturday 13 July. The dinner will feature entertainment and presentation of the NAIDOC Awards to celebrate and recognise Aboriginal people and communities and…

  • Helensburgh plays role in French defeat

    HELENSBURGH has played a critical role in Australia’s Jillaroos passage to the World Cup Final with an impressive 72-0 victory over France in the UK on Tuesday. Four Helensburgh girls, Samantha Hammond, Emily Andrews,…

  • The Dom comes to Bulli

    Dom Mariani and “The Rippled Souls” perform 30 years of Mariani songs at Bulli’s Heritage Hotel next month. In this live show featuring songs from The Stems, The Someloves, The Stonefish, DM3 and The…

  • Plenty to do these school holidays

    FROM book swaps, to workshops on bike maintenance and felting workshops there are activities for everyone these school holidays at Wollongong City Council’s libraries, the Wollongong Botanic Garden and Wollongong Art Gallery. The classes…

  • Looking Back: Timber mill closure end of an era

    MORE than a century of sawmilling at Bulli has come to an end with the closure of Molloy’s Timber Yard. Austrian-born cabinetmaker Gunter Grafenauer operated Molloy Timber with his wife, Pamela, for 38 years…

  • Remembering Illawarra diggers online

    A 1919 postcard from Egypt to Australia, a nurse’s letter published in the Illawarra Mercury in 1915 and a Bible belonging to a soldier killed in Pozieres, France, in 1916 are just some the…

  • Rates to rise to pay for city’s capital works

    WOLLONGONG City Council will increase rates by 3.4 per cent to help fund $73.4 million in capital works over the next 12 months. Council confirmed the second year of its five year Delivery Program…

  • Task force tackles live music

    EXPRESSIONS of interest to join the new Live Music Task Force have been called by Wollongong City Council. The Task Force will be made up of councillors, council staff, a police representative and community…