• Flags go up as another swim season gets underway

    FROM Stanwell Park to Windang, the 2012-2013 swim season begins today when lifeguards will officially take up patrols on 17 beaches. Wollongong City Council’s lifeguards will begin daily patrols on the beaches Monday to…

  • Council to meet at Thirroul

    WOLLONGONG City Council will hold its ordinary meeting on Monday at the Thirroul and District Community Centre. The meeting will start at 6pm. The public are welcome to attend the meeting at the Lawrence…

  • Palestine highlighted in the Edward Said Memorial Lecture

    ISRAELI born historian Ilan Pappé whose landmark publication The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine documented the planned removal of 700,000 Palestinians from their lands in 1948, will be speaking at the University of Wollongong on Monday.…

  • Wollongong forum discusses emerging bionic and medical devices

    IF healthy debate and a general interest in health and technology is your thing, here’s an opportunity to have your voice heard at an upcoming forum in Wollongong concerning emerging bionic and medical devices.…

  • Community steps up campaign to save Bulli Hospital ED

    SAVE Bulli ED have sent a detailed submission to the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) on why it is essential to keep Bulli Hospital Emergency Department open, 24 hours a day, seven days…

  • Its Show time at Bulli this weekend

    THIS weekend a little bit of country comes to Northern Illawarra when the 59th annual Bulli Show is staged. Although the Society is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee, this weekend will be the 59th annual…

  • Stockland closes Bulli’s Sturdee Avenue bridge

    DEVELOPER Stockland have temporarily closed the Sturdee Avenue rail bridge at Bulli as part of the construction process for the McCauley’s Beach residential estate. Wollongong City Council said the closure is for “a short…

  • Community input wanted on rock pool funds

    WOLLONGONG City Council will hold a kiosk this weekend to collect feedback on how money in the Stanwell Park Rock Pool Trust Fund should be spent. The kiosk is at Stanwell Park Beach Reserve…

  • Looking Back: The man who sold Sandon Point

    By MICK ROBERTS. JUST what Bulli pioneer real estate agent Henry Cotterell would think of today’s property prices in the controversial Sandon Point residential estate is hard to imagine. Cotterell, known as “Cottie” to…