• Have your say on Dharawal

    OVER a million dollars has been set aside by the NSW Government for improvements to Dharawal National Park, including an enhanced entrance off Appin Road and a loop track to Madden’s Falls. The community…

  • Bellambi centre chalks up 25 years

    TWENTY five years ago former prime minister Bob Hawke touched down in a helicopter next to the Bellambi Neighbourhood Centre to officially open the facility. State MP for Keira Ryan Park said while he…

  • Boy indecently assaulted in Corrimal shopping centre

    POLICE have appealed for assistance after a 11-year-old boy was indecently assaulted in a Corrimal public toilet. The  boy was at the Corrimal shopping centre with his mother shortly before 5.30pm on Saturday when…

  • Looking Back feature: Illawarra’s first clubs

    By MICK ROBERTS REGISTERED clubs, with their assortment of restaurants, bars and cafes, gymnasiums, and ‘mini-casinos’, have come along way from the timber cottages, offering dominoes and newspaper and magazine libraries, that began to…

  • Crackdown on trail bikes

    THE roar of trail bikes through escarpment bushland is not only damaging the sensitive environment, but could cost riders fines of up to a thousand dollars. Police and Wollongong City Council are on a…

  • Booklet features Woonona digger

    AN eight-page booklet titled “The Spirit of ANZAC”, which gives an interesting insight into Australia’s military history and the role personnel, has been produced by State MP for Heathcote Lee Evans. The booklet features…

  • Home invasion arrest

    A MAN was arrested at Corrimal on Monday after a home invasion at Tarrawanna. Two men allegedly forcedtheir way into a Caldwell Avenue home about 10.20pm on Monday, one armed with a firearm. Police…

  • Council considers future of historic Bulli Miners Cottage

    By MICK ROBERTS. EMPTY, neglected and unused for over seven years, Wollongong City Council is considering the future of its oldest public building at Bulli. Heritage experts, historians and the wider community are calling…

  • Keene launches new EP at Bulli

    SINGER songwriter James Stewart Keene is no stranger to the Bulli Heritage Hotel. Growing up in the Woonona/Bulli district, Keene is regularly seen enjoying a drink at the iconic pub and music venue.  This…