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  • Get ready for Clean Up Australia this Sunday

    CLEANING up the northern Illawarra has become a little easier with the introduction of the ‘iClean Up’ App now enabling residents to get involved anytime anywhere. The latest version of the App gives users…

  • Coal gas drilling begins west of Helensburgh

    DRILLING has begun on a new coal seam gas (CSG) well west of Helensburgh. Drilling started on the well in the Illawarra coal measures in the Warragamba catchment, under an agreement between Apex Energy and Ormil…

  • Libraries to close

    LIBRARIES between Helensburgh and Corrimal will be closed on Wednesday, March 7 with library staff undertaking a day of training. Wollongong City Council’s library services manager Jenny Thompson said it is important for library…

  • Funding for Illawarra Retirement Trust

    FIVE local Wollongong care services will share in extended funding of $845,000 providing a guarantee of more respite services for carers. Among the groups receiving funding is the Illawarra Retirement Trust, which operates aged…

  • Villages without a pub

    THE closure of Scarborough Hotel has left the villages of northern Illawarra high and dry with no pubs. Not since before the first pub opened at Clifton in 1879 has the villages between Thirroul…

  • Speed reduction during Fairy Meadow State Cup

    A 50 km an hour speed limit will be enforced for Squires Way, Fairy Meadow during the NSW Touch Football Junior State Cup. The championships will be held at Dalton Park, Fairy Meadow. The…

  • Ministerial backdown

    THE Minister for Family and Community Services Pru Goward has reversed her decision to slash payments to Illawarra foster parents by $6,000 a year. State MP for Keira Ryan Park has welcomed the backdown,…

  • Bulli rapist walks free

    THE Bulli rapist, who terrorised the northern Illawarra over a nine-month period during the late 1980s, walked a free man from Silverwater Jail today. Terry John Williamson attacked and raped 10 females aged from…

  • Guns found hidden in four-wheel drive on F6 at Helensburgh

    POLICE have charged a man with firearm offences after locating a number of guns in a car during a vehicle stop near Helensburgh today. About 10am, officers attached to Sutherland Detectives and Highway Patrol…