• Water problems at North Beach

    WOLLONGONG City Council is undertaking works at North Beach this morning. The work is due to problems with a water service. Both cafés, Diggies and The North Beach Bathers Pavilion café, are trading as…

  • Boy approached at Bellambi

    POLICE are asking for the public’s help after a boy was approached by a man at Bellambi on Wednesday. About 6.30pm, a seven-year-old boy was walking on Staithes Mews when a small white sedan…

  • Council’s oldest worker retires

    ONE of Wollongong City Council’s oldest workers will retire this month. The Blitz, a 70-year-old GMC truck, will retire to the Australian Road Transport Heritage Centre. ‘The Blitz’, as the work crews call her,…

  • Native plant workshop will visit old Corrimal Colliery

    LANDCARE Illawarra will be running a free workshop and guided bushwalk on Saturday November 3. The workshopwill be visiting the old Corrimal Colliery, which is now privately owned. Landcare Illawarra community support officer Megan…

  • Looking Back: The Lost Village

    By MICK ROBERTS. A FEW rusted corrugated water tanks scattered amongst the leftovers of English ornamental gardens, stone walls and twisted barbed wire are all that remain of the pretty little village of Sherbrooke…

  • Police hold fears for missing teen

    POLICE have fears for a missing teenage girl who frequents the Corrimal area. Fourteen-year-old Orienne Tillman (pictured), who has a mental capacity of a nine year old, recently moved from the Bega area to…

  • Bulli celebrates a century with funding for extensions

    THE NSW Minister for Sport and Recreation, Graham Annesley was joined by State MP for Heathcote Lee Evans on Saturday in a ceremony to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bulli Surf Life Saving Club.…

  • Another Appin Road death

    THE Appin Road has claimed another life. Police are investigating the cause of the fatal head-crash this morning. A 19-year-old man was driving a Hyundai coupe east along Appin Road about 7.45am when it…

  • Stanwell Park nominated in clean beaches award.

    SIX Illawarra beaches have been nominated for a Clean Beaches Award, a program run by Keep Australia Beautiful and sponsored by Sydney Water. The beaches nominated are Stanwell Park, North Warilla, Port Kembla, City…